‘Doctor Sleep’ Filmmakers Tackling Hot Comic ‘Something is Killing the Children’
/Something is Killing the Children, a Boom! Studios horror comic and one of the biggest indie titles currently on shelves is getting the series treatment thanks to Netflix and the makers of The Haunting of Hill House.
Trevor Macy and Mike Flanagan, the spookmeisters whose Intrepid Pictures was behind not just Hill House but Stephen King adaptations Doctor Sleep andGerald’s Game, are co-writing and will executive produce a pilot adapting the comic written by James Tynion IV and drawn by Werther Dell’Edera.
Also executive producing are Boom!’s president of development Stephen Christy, CEO Ross Richie, and head of TV Mark Ambrose. Tynion and Dell’Edera will act as co-executive producers as will Intrepid’s Adam Fasullo.