EXCLUSIVE: It’s a fairy-tale ending for Universal Pictures, which emerged from a heated auction to win Fairy Tale, an adaptation of the new Stephen King bestseller that Paul Greengrass will adapt and direct.
Greengrass will produce the film with Greg Goodman. Studios and streamers were all over this one since Deadline revealed that Greengrass would direct.
Key to the deal making at Uni is the strong relationship Greengrass has at the studio and with Universal Filmed Entertainment Group chairman Donna Langley.
Greengrass directed the Bourne films and United 93 there, and most recently the Tom Hanks-starrer News of the World at the studio.
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