After winning acclaim for their work on the earlier drafts of A Quiet Place, writers Bryan Woods and Scott Beck are tackling one of the masters of horror. They're on to adapt Stephen King's short story The Boogeyman.
King's tale originally appeared in a March 1973 issue of Cavalier magazine before it was collected in King's 1978 collection Night Shift. The story follows a man named Lester Billings who becomes convinced that a nightmarish creature has been creeping from his kids' bedroom closets to kill them. While he's worried that he might be going crazy, and he consults a psychiatrist, Billings' terror continues.
The story has long been one of his works that King has allowed filmmakers to adapt via a non-commercial, non-exclusive $1 option deal, and it has been adapted several times, notably into a short in 1982. Now Shawn Levy's 21 Laps company has shelled out for a full film deal, with 20th Century Fox looking to make the movie.
Beck and Woods have also just written and directed another horror pic, Haunt, which is now headed through the editing stage.
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