Friday, October 26, 2012

King's "Gramma" Gets A Movie

Universal Pictures is making "Mercy," a fantasy-horror film based on Stephen King's short story "Gramma" says Variety.


Published in the 1985 anthology "Skeleton Crew" the tale  the story follows two young boys who, along with their single mother (Frances O'Connor), take care of their elderly, senile grandmother. They discover she's a witch who made a deal with a dark force years beforehand.

Peter Cornwell (The Haunting in Connecticut) will direct from the adapted script by Matt Greenberg

McG Mary Viola and Jason Blum will produce the pic.

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