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.

A24 has taken on the Stephen King bestseller Fairy Tale, with the dark fantasy to be mounted as a 10-episode series by Paul Greengrass and Peter Rice.

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.

Fairy Tale, a 2022 dark fantasy novel by author Stephen King, is being adapted into a 10-episode TV series at A24.

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