Forgotten Stan Lee Horror Stories Being Turned Into Big Screen Scare Films!
Dealing with pop culture on the regular, everyone who reads this SHOULD know who Stan Lee was. Dude spearheaded Marvel Comics (Along with Jack Kirby) and gave us some of our favorite super heroes and villains. News has just came our way that a few earlier stories Lee wrote are finally seeing the light of the big screen and are fully Horror stories to boot!
Deadline reports, the news that Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) will be steering the ship!
The “new cinematic universe” from Bekmambetov’s Bazelevs and ZQ Entertainment, Deadline notes, is “based on the unexploited horror works by Stan Lee.”
The first two films as part of the deal will be Carnival of Killers and Sawbones.
“Some fans may not know this, but Stan Lee wrote several horror comicbook series in the 1940s and 1950s before superhero comics became big in the 1960s,” Gill Champion, POW! Entertainment’s president explained in a statement. “Stan relished revisiting the genre a few years ago when he wrote these stories, and we are excited to bring them to life with a director as visionary as Timur Bekmambetov. We think fans will be surprised to experience a darker side of Stan Lee that they’ve never witnessed before!”
“Carnival of Killers, set amid the Dust Bowl storms that ravaged the American Great Plains in the 1930s, centers around a young girl with psychic abilities who senses that the traveling carnival she and her mother sought refuge in is ground zero for a looming alien invasion.”
“Sawbones follows a frail 12-year old, Alex Covin, who reads a mysterious comic book and is transported into the comic’s terrifying world: a haunted Juvenile Detention Center overrun by demonic forces led by Sawbones, a homicidal entity who preys upon the troubled inmates. Has Alex gone insane? Or is this nightmarish world his new reality? If he is to escape, Alex must find a way to defeat Sawbones, but he quickly comes to realize that Sawbones is the keeper of his darkness and the personification of all his fears.”
Starry Eyes and Pet Sematary filmmakers Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer are on board to write Carnival of Killers, while Matt Greenberg (1408, Pet Sematary) will write Sawbones.
Stan Lee’s POW! Entertainment will executive produce the movies.
