1922
Thomas Jane is a 1920s - epoch farmer who decides to kill his wife in the trailer for Netflix ’s adaptation of Stephen King ’s novella,1922 . The Netflix original film is the belated in a string of King adaptation that have been release this year , for both the big and diminished screen . Director Andy Muschietti’sITmovie is presently sitting atop the box office and has become a pop cultural event in its own right , having arrived but a few week after the pic interlingual rendition of King’sThe Dark Towerfailed to make waves with either critics or general moviegoers . This year has also date TV adaptations ofThe MistandMr . Mercedeshit the airwave , to mixed - if - overall - solid vital and military rating success .
1922isn’t the only King adaption on Netflix ’s Fall 2017 docket either . The film , which was write and directed by Zak Hilditch ( These Final Hours ) , begins rain buckets just under a calendar month after the premiere of the Netflix original movieGerald ’s Game , itself another characteristic - length discourse of King ’s lit . The official trailer for1922has alike made its agency online on the heels of theofficialGerald ’s Gametrailerbeing issue earlier this month .
Jane ( who previously appeared in the Stephen King motion picture adaptationsThe Mist ( 2007)andDreamcatcher ) stars in1922as Wilfred James , a proud husbandman whose desire to go on living on his ranch as - is are disrupted by his wife Arlette ( Molly Parker ) , who wants to move to the metropolis with their son Henry ( Dylan Schmid ) … and perhaps most significantly , forth from Wilfred . When Wilfred decides to flat - out execution his married woman and prevent that from happening , he soon distinguish that getting off with his heinous crime is much comfortable said than done . For more on just that , learn the1922trailer from Netflix , featured above .
The1922trailer paint Hilditch ’s motion picture adaptation as being a terse and disturb horror / thriller in the nervure of previous King movie adaptations likeMisery . There ’s also the add up tension of whether or not Wilfred is guess everything that happens to him after his commits murder , thanks to his guilt - single-foot conscience ( a la Edgar Allan Poe’sThe Tell - Tale Heart ) , or whether there actually are supernatural forces at study here ( a laThe Shining ) . Those who have read1922 ’s germ material ( itself , part of King ’s 2010 novella collectionFull Dark , No Stars ) already know the answer to that question … though who know , Hilditch ’s cinematic re - telling may yet cast some curveballs at them too .
While even King has expressed surprise at how omnipresent adaptations of his lit are decently now , in truth 2017 in general has beena near year for repugnance / thriller entertainment- especially when it follow to motion-picture show , as evidenced by the runaway critical and box position success ofIT , Get OutandSplit , among other films . Fingers cross , that tendency will carry on with both of Netflix ’s impending Stephen King movie adaptations ( Gerald ’s Gameand1922 ) when they begin streaming over the next month .
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