Stephen King’s ‘Fairy Tale’ Getting 10 Episode Series Adaptation from A24

Stephen King‘s novel Fairy Tale had been set for a movie adaptation from Universal, you may recall, but it looks like those plans have changed. The new plan? A television series.

Deadline reports today that A24 is now on board to turn Stephen King’s Fairy Tale into a 10-episode series, with J.H. Wyman (“Fringe”) serving as the showrunner.

The outlet notes, “Paul Greengrass (Captain Phillips, Jason Bourne), who wrote a script and expected to direct the [originally planned] feature, is expected to still be in the middle of things. That script will be expanded by Greengrass and J.H. Wyman.”

Peter Rice will be executive producer alongside Greengrass, Wyman and King.

Deadline further explains, “… the book clocked in at 600-plus pages. It was impossible to fold it all into a two-hour film. Universal let it go. Rice, who had read and loved the book, put it all back together at A24, with Greengrass remaining and Wyman joining him.”

Stephen King’s novel is “an epic tale that follows a 17-year old boy who inherits the keys to a terrifying world where good and evil are at war. The stakes could not be higher, for that world and ours, as he journeys into the mythic roots of human storytelling.”

King recently said of the inspiration behind the novel, “I saw a vast deserted city—deserted but alive. I saw the empty streets, the haunted buildings, a gargoyle head lying overturned in the street. I saw smashed statues (of what I didn’t know, but I eventually found out). I saw a huge, sprawling palace with glass towers so high their tips pierced the clouds. I saw a magic sundial that could turn back time. Those images released the story I wanted to tell.”