Summers, a meticulous craftsman, becomes more and more cynical about the mobsters who’ve hired him, and his skepticism is well warranted as things go awry following completion of the job.” Allen has also committed enough murders for some high level mobsters to be scared the gunman will incriminate his former employers to lessen his sentence. He sets up in an office with a direct view of where hitman Joel Allen will be delivered to face trial for shooting two men during a poker game. The job requires him to embed himself in a quiet town, where he pretends to be an aspiring writer (he actually pours himself into the prose). “Billy Summers is a hitman who is looking to retire, and takes one last highly lucrative job to feather his nest. The project is being shopped to networks and streamers. Bad Robot previously entered the world of Stephen King with “Castle Rock,” “Lisey’s Story,” and “11.22.63.”ĭeadline adds, “ Ed Zwick & Marshall Herskovitz will adapt, with Zwick directing.” Abrams‘s company Bad Robot is behind the planned limited series adaptation of the novel. Scribner released Billy Summers in August 2021, and Deadline reports that J.J. Not long after we learned that Stephen King’s Later is getting a limited series from Blumhouse, Deadline reports that Stephen King‘s Billy Summers is also getting a limited series.
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