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TEACUP SHOWRUNNER IAN MCCULLOCH INTRODUCES HIS NOVEL ADAPTATION OF ROBERT MCCAM MON’S THRILLER , STINGER
WORDS: TARA BENNETT
Caleb Dolden, Yvonne Strahovski, and a teacup.
HORROR WRITERS LOVE TO TELL stories about people stuck behind barriers that bring out the worst in humanity. Clifford D Simak’s All Flesh Is Grass (1965) to Stephen King’s Under The Dome (2009) are but two of many instances where the scenario is explored. However, a title in that subgenre that screenwriter Ian McCulloch (Yellowstone) did not know was Robert R McCammon’s bestselling 1988 novel, Stinger.
Arlo Chenoweth meets… something.
So when James Wan’s production arm Atomic Monster contacted McCulloch gauging his interest in adapting the book into a streaming series for Peacock he literally had to be sent a copy of the book.