Stephen King’s Brand New Novel THE INSTITUTE Getting Limited Series Adaptation
Josh Millican
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It’s the year of the King–Stephen King that is!
We’ve already gotten the feature films Pet Sematary and IT: Chapter Two with Doctor Sleep arriving in theaters this November. We’ve gotten the limited series NOS4A2 and the 3rd season of Mr. Mercedes coming down the pike. Now, we can add Stephen King’s brand new novel, The Institute, to the list of upcoming adaptations.
Deadline is reporting that David E. Kelley and Jack Bender are adapting The Institute as a limited series:
In a competitive situation, Spyglass Media Group’s TV division has optioned Stephen King’s latest novel The Institute to develop as a limited series, with David E. Kelley (Big Little Lies) and Jack Bender (Lost), the same creative team behind the critically acclaimed Mr. Mercedes, also based on a King novel, attached. The announcement marks the first television acquisition for Spyglass and was made by Lauren Whitney, President of Television for Spyglass. Additionally, Spyglass has set a multi-year first look deal with Bender to develop future projects for Spyglass, overseen by Whitney.
Related Article: New Adaptation of Stephen King’s THE STAND Moving Forward at CBS All Access
Synopsis:
In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents—telekinesis and telepathy—who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and ten-year-old Avery Dixon. They are all in Front Half. Others, Luke learns, graduated to Back Half, “like the roach motel,” Kalisha says. “You check in, but you don’t check out.”
In this most sinister of institutions, the director, Mrs. Sigsby, and her staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force of their extranormal gifts. There are no scruples here. If you go along, you get tokens for the vending machines. If you don’t, punishment is brutal. As each new victim disappears to Back Half, Luke becomes more and more desperate to get out and get help. But no one has ever escaped from the Institute.
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