EXCLUSIVE: A24 has taken on the Stephen King bestseller Fairy Tale. The dark fantasy will be mounted as a 10-episode series. Paul Greengrass, who wrote a script and expected to direct the feature, is expected to still be in the middle of things.

Stephen King’s Fairy Tale novel is being turned into a television series. Fairy Tale was published in September 2022. Written by King, the novel follows a 17-year-old boy named Charlie Reade who finds himself in the middle of a war between good and evil after he is transported to a hidden realm.

Once set up at Universal as a feature, the Paul Greengrass adaptation of Stephen King's Fairy Tale is becoming a TV series at A24

It took practically no time at all for an adaptation of Stephen King’s Fairy Tale to enter development. The novel first arrived in stores in September 2022, and it was less than a month later that the news broke of writer/director Paul Greengrass developing it as a feature.

The latest Stephen King adaptation is a dark fantasy epic that's being developed as a TV series by a surprising (thought accomplished) director.

Fairy Tale, a 2022 dark fantasy novel by author Stephen King, is being adapted into a 10-episode TV series at A24.The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox

A24 is producing a series adaptation of Stephen King ’s dark fantasy novel Fairy Tale . Paul Greengrass ( Bourne Identity films, United 93 , Captain Phillips ), who wrote a script for an unmade feature film,

Paul Greengrass will still be bringing Stephen King's 2022 novel Fairy Tale to screens, but as an A24-backed TV series.