He has become known for his written work like It Chapter One and Two, The Nun, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, and the canceled Swamp Thing series. His directorial debut was The Conjuring spinoff, Annabelle Comes Home, in 2019. The film will be the sophomore film for writer-director Gary Dauberman, who has become a go-to horror director for New Line. The delay comes due to COVID-related reasons that have impacted the production of the New Line film. Deadline has reported that the film, which was set to release this September, will get pushed to April 21st, 2023. This adaptation was written by Peter Filardi, who currently serves as a co-creator, co-writer, and executive producer for Epix’s Stephen King series Chapelwaite, based on King’s short story Jerusalem’s Lot.It was going to be a few months until the world got to see an adaption of the Stephen King classic novel Salem’s Lot. In 2004, the story was adapted into another TV miniseries starring Rob Lowe as Ben Mears. The movie was followed up by the 1987 film A Return to Salem’s Lot from Larry Cohen.

Salem’s Lot was previously adapted into a miniseries in 1979, directed by Tobe Hooper, with David Soul playing the role of Ben Mears. RELATED: The Matrix Resurrections Trailer Brings Neo and Trinity Back to the System

Executive producers also include Michael Bederman, Atomic Monster’s Judson Scott, and Vertigo’s Andrew Childs. Dauberman, who worked with Wan on 2014’s Annabelle and The Nun and made his directorial debut with the sequel Annabelle Comes Home, will executive produce. Wan will produce Salem’s Lotalongside his Atomic Monster partner Michael Clear, Vertigo’s Roy Lee, and Mark Wolper. This will be the latest King project Dauberman has adapted after writing the screenplays for 2017’s IT and 2019’s IT Chapter Two, with both films directed by Andy Muschietti. Gary Dauberman is directing and writing the screenplay for producer James Wan ( Conjuring universe, Saw franchise). While the vampires claim more victims, Mears convinces a small group of believers to combat the undead. In the 1975 horror novel, author Ben Mears returns to the town of Jerusalem’s Lot (‘Salem’s Lot for short) to write a book about a house that has haunted him since childhood only to find his isolated hometown infested with vampires.

'Salem's Lot by Stephen King