Stephen King Adaptation ‘Mr. Mercedes’ Will Air on Audience Network

Deadline has reported that the the AT&T-owned Audience Network will premiere its television series Mr. Mercedes, a Stephen King adaptation, this summer.

Based on a 2014 novel by King, the story is a mix of a more grounded horror and classic mystery, following killer Brady Hartsfield as he harasses retired detective Bill Hodges, pushing Hodges to assume a (potentially illegal) personal mission to capture Hodges once and for all. The series will star Harry Treadaway (Penny Dreadful) as Brady Hartsfield and Brendan Gleeson (Calvary, In Bruges) as Bill Hodges.

This will be the second Stephen King-based television series airing this summer, as Spike’s The Mist will also premiere in June. King’s work seems to be popular source material these days, with The Dark Tower starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba releasing in theaters this August and It starring Bill Skarsgård and Finn Wolfhard to release in movie theaters later in September.

Writer/producer David E. Kelley (Big Little Lies, The Practice) wrote and executive-produced the series while director Jack Bender (Game of Thrones, Lost) will be responsible for directing a number of episodes. Stephen King himself also serves as producer for the show and earlier in April, the horror author tweeted about the series, teasing a cameo of his at some point on the show. King has a penchant for being picky about approving adaptations of his work, famously condemning Stanley Kubrick’s classic horror film The Shining as not accurately capturing his novel. For King to approve of an adaptation of his work is a fairly significant deal.

 

Mr. Mercedes will premiere on Audience Network August 9 at 8pm. The series will also be available to stream on DirecTV Now.

Caitlin Leale: Currently a graduating senior at Connecticut College, Caitlin is studying both film and European history in New London, Connecticut. As well as working as a contributor for mxdwn Television, Caitlin is a film reviewer for the online film streaming site Flix Premiere (which can be visited at flixpremiere.com). Having also studied at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and at University College London, Caitlin has an extensive academic, professional, and international knowledge of the film and TV industry. She hopes to later study screenwriting in graduate school and become a writer on a show of her own in the future.
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