Netflix has announced that Gerald?s Game will premiere on Friday, Sept. 29th. Stephen King himself sang the movie?s praises in a tweet some months back, calling it ?hypnotic? and ?haunting.?
The film was directed by Mike Flanagan (Ouija: Origin of Evil) from a script by Flanagan and Jeff Howard. Coming in at just 332 pages, Gerald?s Game is one of Stephen King?s tighter stories, more along the lines of his thriller Misery than his big, sprawling multi-character epics like IT and The Stand. The harrowing story, which takes places mostly in one room and largely involves the lead character?s internal voices and some strange hallucinations (that may not actually be hallucinations), should be a great showcase for Gugino as her character slowly disintegrates from the trauma of her situation.
