If Blood Flows: the rights of Stephen King's latest book sold

Stephen King's latest book, If It Bleeds in its original version, is not only a novel, but a collection of four short stories. The author recently said that he could sell the rights to the stories each for a different film, and that's exactly what is happening, according to the Deadline newspaper (you can read the original article at this link). The magazine reports the news that the rights to three short stories for as many film adaptations have already been sold.

The story Mr. Harrigan's phone will be developed by Netflix, Blumhouse and Ryan Murphy and writing and directing will be entrusted to John Lee Hancock. The story Ratto, however, involves Ben Stiller who, apparently, will be the producer, director and star of the film. Chuck's life, however, seems to have been awarded to Darren Aronofsky's Protozoa Pictures, which for now appears only as the producer of the adaptation. It is curious that in the list of adaptations the story that gives the title to the entire work is missing, Se Scorre il Sangue but, in all likelihood, the realization of this fourth title will not be missing.

We remind briefly the plots of the various stories. The phone of Mr. Harrigan tells the story of friendship between a young man and an industrialist who retired in a small town in Maine. The young man gives his friend a smartphone and when the old man dies, the boy will put the phone in the probe of the dress worn by the coffin. After the burial, the young man receives strange messages from the afterlife via mobile phone. The rat, however, tells the story of a writer facing writer's block. He will find himself in a situation supernatural after having come to terms with a rat just to finish the novel he was working on. Life with Chuck tells the story, starting from his death, the life of Charles Krantz, a story that is more emotional, divided into three times and leaves the reader with a feeling of poetic melancholy.

If you are curious to read the last work of Stephen King, I recommend you purchase If Blood Flows at this link .