The Wrap:

Gary Dauberman will write the script for New Line Cinema’s big screen adaptation of Stephen King’s “Salem’s Lot," which James Wan, Roy Lee and Mark Wolper will produce.

King wrote the novel in 1975, only his second to be published at the time. It follows a writer who returns to the town of Jerusalem’s Lot, where he lived as a young boy, only to discover everyone he used to know is now a vampire. It was also King’s first book to top the New York Times Bestseller list. In 1979, Tobe Hooper directed a “Salem’s Lot" TV movie, while a miniseries was released in 2004.

Surprised that there hasn’t been a Wan/King team-up before this, given that Wan sort of has his own horror kingdom over at Warner Bros, but this could be great! Love Salem’s Lot, and I’m really loving the modern era of King adaptations…The Dark Tower aside. (And they might even fix that one with the TV show.)