The New Salem’s Lot Movie Doesn’t Connect To Stephen King’s The Dark Tower, But The Director Pitched A Sequel Series That Would Have

SPOILER WARNING: The following article contains light spoilers for the new Salem’s Lot adaptation, Stephen King ’s novel, and the Dark Tower series. If you haven’t watched/read one or all of them and don’t wish to know anything about them, proceed at your own risk! The arrival of a new Stephen King movie is always a thrill for the author’s legion of fans – and it’s been an exciting fall. It was just a few weeks ago that Mike Flanagan’s The Life Of Chuck premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival , and now, after literal years of waiting, Gary Dauberman’s Salem’s Lot is finally available to stream for Max subscribers .

In last Thursday’s edition of The King Beat , I reported on how the new movie connects to Dauberman’s history with King , as he previously wrote the scripts for IT and IT: Chapter Two , but this week, I have something different: how Salem’s Lot doesn’t connect to the larger King universe but almost did through a super cool idea. Along with information about the other big new Stephen King-related release in the last few days (a fresh audiobook recording of Danse Macabre ) and a new Recommendation Of The Week, this fresh column is bursting with awesome, so let’s dig in! Salem’s Lot Director Heavily Considered A Connection Between Salem’s Lot And Stephen King’s The Dark Tower While Gary Dauberman ’s Salem’s Lot is the third adaptation of the Stephen King novel, it’s the first that has been made with the opportunit.