After a long wait, finally the remake of Salem’s Lotwill be released this year, with exclusive release in MAX.
It is precisely the streamer, through official accounts, who launches the first official trailer of this new adaptation of the literary material of Stephen Kingby the scriptwriter and director Gary Dauberman.
Con Premiere scheduled for Thursday, October 3, 2024 on MAXthe trailer introduces us to Ben Mears (Lewis Pullman of Top Gun: Maverick), on his way back to his hometown. The seemingly bucolic place turns eerie when the sun sets and a gravedigger hears banging coming from a coffin, heralding the arrival of a vampiric threat.
In the rest of the trailer we see several horror scenes, including a vampire child floating outside a window, and a dead man rising from a slab in a morgue.
The trailer is available at the end of this article.
In addition to Pullman, the remake stars Makenzie Leigh (The Assistant), Bill Camp (The Queen’s Gambit), John Benjamin Hickey (The Good Wife), Nicholas Crovetti (Big Little Lies), Jordan Preston Carter (DMZ), Spencer Treat Clark (Gladiator), Cade Woodward (Avengers: Endgame), Debra Christofferson (9-1-1), Saw Asbaek (Game of Thrones), Alfre Woodard (Luke Cage), y William Sadler (When They See Us).
OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS:
“Haunted by an incident from his childhood, author Ben Mears returns to his hometown of Jerusalem's Lot in search of inspiration for his next book, only to discover that the town is under attack by a bloodthirsty vampire and his loyal servant.”
SOME DATA:
- Salem’s Lot (2023) sets its plot around 1975, when King's book was first published.
- Filming for the remake took place in Massachusetts in 2021.
This is Dauberman's second feature film as a director. His debut marked him Annabelle Comes Home from the saga The spell. The creator of said franchise, James Wanis the producer of this remake with his company Atomic Monster.
Dauberman has written films such as Annabelle, Annabelle: Creation, Annabelle Comes Home y The Nunand has adapted material from Stephen King as IT and the sequel IT: Chapter Two.
Roy Lee y Mark Wolper accompany Wan as producers, with Dauberman as executive producer. New Line Cinema is the producer, with WB as distributor.
King's book, published in 1975, has been adapted twice for television. First in 1979 with a miniseries directed by Tobe Hooper, and then in 2004 with a TNT miniseries starring Rob Lowe. This is the first time that Salem’s Lot It is adapted for the big screen.
Some time after the novel was published, King expanded the story with short stories Jerusalem’s Lot y One for the Road.
Trailer and poster:
Source: https://cine3.com/el-remake-salems-lot-de-gary-dauberman-revela-aterrador-trailer/
