Max releases more official stills from the long-awaited Stephen King adaptation

Earlier this week, Vanity Fair released the first official images from Warner Bros. and New Line’s upcoming re-adaptation of Stephen King’s Salem's Lotwhich is coming to the streaming service Max this October.

Now Max has shared another set of stills, this time with our first look at Pilou Asbæk (Game of Thrones, Ghost in the Shell) as the evil Richard Straker and what could well be the hand of the vampire Kurt Barlow as he grabs Father Callahan (John Benjamin Hickey) by the jaw.

In the book, Straker serves as Barlow's “familiar,” following his orders and bringing him victims that he feeds on and sometimes turns into other vampires. In King's novel, the character is human, but was portrayed as a powerful supernatural being in the 1979 miniseries. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Director Tobe Hooper.

Last year we learned that Warner Bros. Salem's Lot back to April 21, 2023, after previously being scheduled for a September 9, 2022 release. Since then, the film seemed to have been pulled from the schedule entirely, and there were concerns that it could be put on hold following David Zaslav's decision to write off the film. Batgirl Film.

In March, New Line confirmed the rumor that the vampire horror film would not be shown in theaters, but would debut on the streaming service Max. Previous industry reports have indicated that this “is not a reflection of the quality of the film, but rather the fact that the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike has created a growing demand for Max content.”

An official premiere date has yet to be announced, but we expect a first trailer very soon.

The film also stars Lewis Pullman, Alfre Woodard, Bill Camp, Makenzie Leigh and Spencer Treat Clark. IT Adaptation author Gary Dauberman (Annabelle comes home) directed the film and also wrote the screenplay.

King's novel tells the story of a writer named Ben Mears who returns to his hometown of Jerusalem's Lot and finds himself drawn to an old house that traumatized him as a child. The Marsten House is an evil place, and an evil place attracts evil men. Unfortunately for Ben and the rest of the town, the evil men this time are the powerful vampire Kurt Barlow and his devious confidant Richard Straker.

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