J.J. Abrams and his Dangerous Robotic banner have teamed up with Warner Bros. for the function adaptation of Billy Summers, a really latest Stephen King novel that was printed in 2021.

Appian Approach will even produce the undertaking, which is being written by Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz.

A yr in the past the undertaking was within the works as a restricted sequence from Abrams’ Dangerous Robotic banner. On the time, Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz have been connected to adapt, with Zwick eying to direct an excellent portion of the episodes, if not all.

Not one among King’s horror novels, Summers focuses on a 44-year previous hitman, the eponymously titled Billy Summers, who is able to retire when he takes up one final job from a daily shopper. (“One final job” is at all times synonymous with “issues go awry,” however we’ll get to that in a second.) Taking over a canopy story that he’s a novelist,  Summers ensconces himself right into a small-town as he prep for the hit, and in his spare time really begins to put in writing a novel, which turns into his life story, from his little sister being killed by their mom’s boyfriend to him changing into a adorned sniper.

The hit goes awry when the common shopper doesn’t pay and Summers escapes a entice. His life will get much more difficult when he finds on the market’s a bounty on his life and he saves a rape sufferer named Alice. Summer season and the girl find yourself on a cross-country journey to rectify the hit’s many wrongs.

The e book was critically well-received upon its launch.

It’s unclear if Abrams would direct this movie. As a options director, Abrams has nearly completely hewed towards established properties. He made his function debut with Mission: Inconceivable III (2006), the Tom Cruise movie that helped revitalized the franchise after the earlier installment was poorly acquired six years earlier. Abrams then pivoted to relaunched the Star Trek galaxy with the 2009 reboot that starred Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto. He directed the Spielbergian ardour undertaking, and his solely authentic film, Tremendous 8 (2011) earlier than helming Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013).

Earlier than Into Darkness arrived in theaters, he shocked Hollywood by signing on to relaunch the galaxy far, far-off with Star Wars: The Pressure Awakens, the 2015 movie that reinigorated the franchise for a brand new era and was a business and important success. He returned to Star Wars one final time to shut out the sequel trilogy with The Rise of Skywalker (2019), a movie that whereas making greater than $1 billion was not properly acquired by hardcore followers nor critics, contemplating that Pressure Awakens made roughly double that only a few years earlier and acquired sturdy opinions.

Within the years since Rise of Skywalker, Abrams has targeted on tv, the medium during which he made a reputation for himself with hits comparable to Felicity, Alias and Misplaced. As a part of an enormous total take care of Abrams’ Dangerous Robotic and Warners, he has been creating initiatives such because the dear Demimonde, which was scrapped amid the Warner Bros. Discovery merger, in addition to a number of DC initiatives. A lot of these have been waylaid by the creation of DC Studios, run by James Gunn and Peter Safran, though his Black Superman undertaking, being written by Ta-Nehisi Coates and on which he’s a producer, stays in lively improvement.