By Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office Editor Deadline has confirmed that Annabelle Comes Home director is also taking the reigns of the New Line feature adaptation of Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot.
Dauberman was already adapting the 1975 horror novel for the big screen for producers James Wan, Roy Lee and Mark Wolper. Dauberman will also be EP.
He previously worked with Wan, writing the Annabelle franchise, and made his feature directorial debut on last summer’s Annabelle Comes Home.
Salem’s Lot follows a writer named Ben Mears who returns to the town of Jerusalem’s Lot (or Salem’s Lot for short) in Maine, where he had lived from the age of five through nine, only to discover that the residents are becoming vampires.
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