Even if It hadn't just enjoyed a huge opening weekend around the world, there would still be someone looking to adapt a Stephen King narrative. But we'd imagine there'll be an uptick now, and the surge is kicking off with short story Suffer The Little Children.
Writer/director Sean Carter is the man making this one, which focuses on a recently divorced teacher who discovers some disturbing traits in the children who make up her class: flashes of a secret texture beneath their skin and the weird, conspiratorial way they play together in hushed tones. Added to that, people in the town are starting to die mysteriously. Is it all in her head, or is something strange happening to the kids? It's a supernatural tale, so we'd assume option number B.
"The Stephen King aesthetic has been imprinted into my psyche since I was a teenager, and Suffer The Little Children fits right into that classic King paradigm: a tragically flawed lead character put into a shockingly unimaginable scenario," Carter says in a statement picked up by Deadline. "It’s a tiny peek into a mythology that I can’t wait to expand into a full-length movie."
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