Yet Another Stephen King Short Story Is Coming To The Big Screen
What a shocker: another Stephen King story is making its way to the big screen. Deadline reports (as discovered by our friends over at Bloody Disgusting) that a film version of the author’s short story Mister Yummy is in the works from Intrinsic Value Films, alongside a collection of other projects they’re bringing to the American Film Market.
While no director is attached to the project yet, Mister Yummy features a screenplay by Troy Blake, who is set to produce the film alongside Thomas Mahoney. Following an elderly gay man named Ollie Franklin, the film details the last days in the dying man’s life as he receives visits from a beautiful man called Mister Yummy, who he is convinced is a harbinger of doom.
Mister Yummy originally appeared in King’s 2015 short story collection The Bazaar of Bad Dreams, which features nineteen other stories originally published from 2009 to 2015, including Batman and Robin Have an Altercation and The Little Green God of Agony. The collection was the tenth to gather together King’s short fiction — preceded by famous titles like Night Shift — and the immediate predecessor to If It Bleeds, which produced the story The Life of Chuck, famously also adapted for the screen by Mike Flanagan.
This news is just the latest in a long line of adapting Stephen King’s stories for the screen. While his full-length titles like The Running Man and Carrie are set to hit screen soon, adaptations of his short fiction also famously include Children of the Corn and The Boogeyman, as well as forthcoming versions of Rat (also included in If It Bleeds) and Autopsy Room Four, which originally appeared in Six Stories in 1997.
Mister Yummy joins a slate from Intrinsic Value that also includes a biopic about Young Frankenstein star Gene Wilder, and a film based on Wham-O, the toy company that produced the Frisbee, hula hoop, and the hacky sack.
“After years of producing films we deeply believed in, we’re excited to make Intrinsic Value a visible brand in its own right,” said Intrinsic Value co-founder Aimee Schoof. “We’re honoring the spirit that’s always guided us — collaboration, discovery, and great storytelling.”
No release date has been set for Mister Yummy. Stay tuned to FANGORIA for more updates as they arrive.
