{"id":25100,"date":"2024-06-16T07:40:07","date_gmt":"2024-06-16T07:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69fb9454-4bf0-4637-b484-50e3bd32c6c512"},"modified":"2024-06-16T07:40:07","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T07:40:07","slug":"one-of-stephen-kings-best-recent-novels-is-being-made-into-a-show-for-mgm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/one-of-stephen-kings-best-recent-novels-is-being-made-into-a-show-for-mgm\/","title":{"rendered":"One of Stephen King\u2019s best recent novels is being made into a show for MGM+"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/one-of-stephen-kings-best-recent-novels-is-being-made-into-a-show-for-mgm.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>MGM+ has ordered an eight-episode series based on Stephen King\u2019s 2019 novel, <em>The Institute<\/em>, <span class=\"waslinkname\"><em>Deadline<\/em><\/span> reported this week. The novel follows the plight of 12-year-old Luke Ellis and a group of other children with telepathic and telekinetic abilities who have been kidnapped and held captive at a facility deep in the Maine woods, where their powers are being exploited. Their story becomes intertwined with that of an ex-cop Tim Jamieson. I really enjoyed this one when it came out, and as a lifelong King reader who has become hardened against the disappointment of terrible adaptations, I\u2019m choosing to remain hopeful.<\/p>\n<p>So far, all we know about the cast is that it includes Ben Barnes (<em>Shadow and Bone<\/em>) as Jamieson and Mary-Louise Parker (<em>Weeds<\/em>) as the villainous Mrs. Sigsby, according to <em>Deadline<\/em>. The show has Benjamin Cavell on board as writer and executive producer. Cavell helmed 2020\u2019s <em>The Stand <\/em>miniseries remake, which\u2026 well, it happened. Again, we\u2019re staying hopeful here. Production starts later this year in Nova Scotia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MGM+ has ordered an eight-episode series based on Stephen King\u2019s 2019 novel, The Institute, Deadline reported this week. The novel follows the plight of 12-year-old Luke Ellis and a group of other children with telepathic and telekinetic abilities who have been kidnapped and held captive at a facility deep in the Maine woods, where their &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-25100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","has-thumb","has-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25100"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=25100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}