In recent years, Stephen King’s works have often been adapted for the cinema, but television is soon to open its doors to King’s world. Following HBO’s “Welcome to Derry” project, MGM+ is bringing the author’s novel “The Institute” to the screen.
Stephen King’s “The Institute” is being adapted for television
Stephen King’s 2019 science fiction/horror novel The Institute is being adapted for television and will star Ben Barnes and Mary-Louise Parker.
The new eight-episode series is executive produced and EP’d by Jack Bender and co-executive producer/writer Ben Cavell. Bender is best known for directing episodes of shows like “Lost” and “Game of Thrones,” while Cavell has worked on shows like “Justified” and “The Stand.” The duo has experience adapting King’s work for the small screen. Cavell describes King as “more generous and collaborative than I could have imagined.”
The series will begin filming in Nova Scotia later this year and the leads have already been cast. Ben Barnes, who we know from “Shadow & Bone”, will play ex-cop Tim Jamieson. Jamieson begins the search for a missing boy, Luke Ellis.
The main story of the series is that Luke has special powers and is kidnapped and taken to a facility called “The Institute” with other children with similar powers. Mary-Louise Parker will play the character of Ms. Sigsby, the director of this facility, who works with faith and commitment to the true purpose of the institution. Sigsby, the director of the facility.
MGM+ began its King adaptations with “Chapelwaite” in 2021, and network president Michael Wright hopes “The Institute” will be an “exciting addition” to the MGM+ original series lineup.
“There’s no one I trust more than Jack and Ben to bring the book to life,” Wright said, adding that the team will do their best to capture King’s voice and bring this thought-provoking and heartbreaking story to life in the cinematic and exciting style MGM+ audiences have come to expect.
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