Darren Aronofsky is about to make his first streaming movie.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, the acclaimed filmmaker is in talks to direct Cujo, a new film adaptation of the classic Stephen King novel in development at Netflix. Aronofsky is best known for directing Requiem for a Dream, Black Swan, and The Whale.
Announced last week, Netflix’s Cujo is reportedly getting fast-tracked, meaning we should see this on the streamer sooner rather than later. Roy Lee, a King veteran having produced It, It Chapter Two, and Salem’s Lot, is onboard as a producer.
Cujo was previously adapted to film in 1983. The story follows a mother desperate to protect her son from a formerly friendly 200-pound St. Bernard that has been bitten by a rabid bat and turned into a ferocious, calculating hound that leaves a trail of bodies. Mom and her son get stuck in her small car that won’t start, and their choices are to battle it out with the rabid oversized hound or risk heatstroke in a hot car.
Hollywood remains heavily invested in bringing the works of King to the big screen, with two more adaptations set to hit theaters this year alone: Mike Flanagan’s The Life of Chuck (which recently dropped a first trailer) and Edgar Wright’s The Running Man.
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