Variety reports that the Academy Award winner Adrien Brody (The Pianist, Grand Budapest Hotel) will star in the Epix’s adaptation of Stephen King’s 1978 short story Jerusalem’s Lot. Set in the mid-nineteen century, Jerusalem’s Lot is an epistolary story about a widower who moves to New England countryside to start a new life. However, he soon discovers that an old mansion he moves into hides a horrifying mystery of cosmic proportions. Adrien Brody will portray the show’s lead character, widower Charles Boone. Epix has ordered a ten-episode season.
Indebted to both Bram Stoker’s seminal novel Dracula and H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos stories, Jerusalem’s Lot plays out as a sort-of prequel to King’s 1975 vampire novel ‘Salem’s Lot. That novel is also being adapted into a feature film by New Line Cinema. In April studio announced that screenwriter Gary Dauberman (It, It Chapter II) and the acclaimed horror filmmaker James Wan will produce this adaptation. To date, ‘Salem’s Lot has been adapted twice as a miniseries: first in 1979 and then again in 2004. ‘Salem’s Lot has been also alluded to on Hulu’s horror series Castle Rock.
Release dates for both Jerusalem’s Lot and the ‘Salem’s Lot are as yet unknown.
