HUNGER GAMES Star Dials Into Stephen King's CELL Adaption

 

About 8 years after Stephen King's terrifying novel CELL hit shelves, it appears they're finally getting around to bringing it to the big-screen, currently being pitched to potential distributors at the Berlin International Film Festival, and it's also cast Isabelle Fuhrman (ORPHAN, The Hunger Games) and NEBRASKA star Stacy Keach.

Variety Reports:

Fuhrman plays a teenage neighbor of Cusack’s Clay Riddell character who joins him and Jackson’s Tom McCourt character on their journey to safety after a mysterious pulse spreads like a virus through the human population.

Keach (“Nebraska”) will play the headmaster of a prep school where the survivors stop along their way.

The film, which recently started shooting in Atlanta, is directed by Tod Williams (The Door in the Floor, Paranormal Activity 2) and stars King-adaption alums from 2007's 1408 John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson.

The screenplay was written by King himself along with Adan Alleca who wrote 2009's violent thriller The Last House on the Left.

I'm interested to see how this film goes, the cast and writing are fantastic; but what made CELL so unique was it's release in a time where cell-phones were still a "young" thing so the premise was somewhat more terrifying.
Of course now, cell-phones are attached to everyone's ear and are now intelligent devices that dictate our day-to-day life so I feel this is the rare case of time being on the adaption's side.