‘The Gingerbread Girl’ Keeps The Stephen King Adaptation Train Rolling
By Chris Evangelista/May 15, 2018 4:00 pm EST
The Stephen King adaptation train continues rolling along. Deadline reports King’s novella The Gingerbread Girl, which was first published in the July 2007 issue of Esquire and was later included in King’s 2008 short story collection Just After Sunset, is the latest work from the master of horror headed to the screen.
The Gingerbread Girl announcement isn’t quite as promising as some other some other recently announced King projects. For one thing, the story, about a grieving woman confronting a serial killer, isn’t that great. For another, the film is going to be directed by the not-so-exciting Craig R. Baxley, who mostly has a background in TV movies. Baxley has a history with King, having directed the King projects Storm of the Century, Kingdom Hospital and Rose Red – all for TV. This perhaps suggests The Gingerbread Girl might be destined to become a TV movie as well, although Deadline says Brainstorm Media plans to distribute the film. On the plus-side, King is going to co-write the screenplay himself. Here’s the official story synopsis:
