Warner Bros Acquires Stephen King Bestseller BILLY SUMMERS; J.J. Abrams to Produce Adaptation

Warner Bros has recently acquired the rights to Stephen King's 2021 novel "Billy Summers", and is looking to develop it into a feature, after last year it was initially planned as a ten-episode limited series.

The project will be produced by J.J. Abrams's Bad Robot and Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way. Various sources seem to hint that the film may be directed by Abrams with DiCaprio starring in the lead role. Ed Zwick ("The Last Samurai", "Legends of the Fall", "Blood Diamond") and Marshall Herskovitz ("Jack Reacher: Never Go Back", "American Assassin") are writing the screenplay.

The story follows the titular protagonist, a hitman who is looking to retire and takes one last highly lucrative job. The job requires him to embed himself in a quiet town, where he pretends to be an aspiring writer. He sets up in an office with a direct view of where hitman Joel Allen will be delivered to face trial for shooting two men during a poker game. Allen also has committed enough murders for some high-level mobsters to be scared the gunman will incriminate his former employers to lessen his sentence. Summers, a meticulous craftsman, becomes more and more cynical about the mobsters who've hired him, and his skepticism is well warranted as things go awry following the job's completion.

Bad Robot previously adapted King's 2006 novel "Lisey's Story" and 2011's "11.22.63", and developed the Hulu original series "Castle Rock", which featured characters, locations and stories from his novels.

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Warner Bros Acquires Stephen King Bestseller BILLY SUMMERS; J.J. Abrams to Produce Adaptation

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