On October 3, one of the most unusual pilgrimages in streaming was completed. The new adaptation of The Mystery of Salem’s Lotbased on one of the masterpieces of Stephen Kingwas finally released in Spain in Max. This film finished filming in early 2022 and, since then, has lain buried in the coffin of Warner Bros. Its theatrical release date was published several times, and several times it was postponed. In the end, she went directly to the platform, without going through the big screen.
Those who participated in The Mystery of Salem’s Lot They can still be satisfied, since this film was close to following the path of projects shelved as batgirl. King’s insistence, on social networks, for a release date to be confirmed convinced Warner to release The Mystery of Salem’s Lot. The result, however, cannot be compared with the novel, one of the peaks of vampire literature.
The adaptation of Tobe Hooperwhich had two versions (one for television, longer, and another for cinema). However, the definitive connection between Salem Lot and audiovisuals is more recent, and came to our country thanks to Max and Disney+ with Adrian Brody as protagonist. Its title, Chapelwaite.
‘Chapelwaite’: synopsis
Three years after publishing The Mystery of Salem’s LotStephen King published his first collection of short stories, titled The threshold of the night. This volume has been thoroughly exploited by cinema: stories like El Coco (The Boogeyman) either The corn boys have been adapted, and even Stephen himself debuted as a director to bring the story to the big screen Trucks.
Jerusalem’s Lot open The threshold of the night. In this story, which King (as creator) converted into a ten-episode series in 2021, the origin of The Mystery of Salem’s Lot. The reasons that brought the enigmatic neighbor Barlow to this corner of Maine are told in the story of The threshold of the night and in the series Chapelwaitewhich goes back several decades to move to a growing Jerusalem’s Lot.
Captain Boone arrives with his three children to rebuild his life. However, the family detects that the quiet city to which they have moved hides a dark side: the nightjars sing at inappropriate hours and there are shadows that move in the forest.
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