Nick declines to identify the person who wants Allen killed, but he has an elaborate plan for Billy to move to the city and await Allen’s extradition from California, then shoot him on the courthouse steps. She pepper-sprayed him, and now Joel Allen is sitting in the Los Angeles jail.īilly and Nick don’t meet in Las Vegas to discuss the job, but in a fictional small city that “sits east of the Mississippi and just below the Mason-Dixon line.” More to the point, it’s a city where Joel Allen is wanted for shooting two men, one of them fatally, not on assignment but after losing big in a poker game - and it’s in a death penalty state, where a hitman looking at execution might make a deal and spill some secrets about his employers. The target, Nick tells him, is also a hitman, but one who has gone off the rails and been arrested for assault after propositioning a feminist writer he mistook for a hooker. The Salem's Lot remake from Gary Dauberman is also expected to hit theaters sometime this year.īilly Summers is a crime novel that follows the titular aging assassin who accepts one last job before his planned retirement.Billy has worked before with the go-between who hires him, a Las Vegas mobster named Nick Majarian. The movies based on the Misery author’s novels that are expected to come out soon include, The Boogeyman, which will be premiering in theaters on June 2, 2023. However, now it is being adapted into a motion picture by the giant production houses.īilly Summers, is reportedly in very early stages of production as a feature film, becomes just one of many Stephen King's adaptations coming to the big screen, including a few that will be released in 2023. Abrams' Bad Robot productions to be adapted into a limited series.

1 on The New York Times bestseller list, Billy Summers was quickly optioned by J.J. Previously, in 2021, when the novel was published and debuted at No. The screen play for the feature film is written by Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz. Per the report, DiCaprio’s Appian Way and Abbrams’ Bad Robot will produce the film depending on how the Billy Summers script turns out. has acquired the bestselling book and considering it will work better as a movie. The Titanic star is reportedly eyed for the titular role having JJ Abrams serving as the director on the feature film.ĭeadline reported on Friday that Warner Bros. Leonardo DiCaprio is expected to play the leading role in Billy Summers which is a movie adaptation of Stephen King's 2021 bestseller novel.

Leonardo DiCaprio to star in Stephen King's 'Billy Summers' movie adaptation

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