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mae
10-15-2012, 03:59 PM
http://www.deadline.com/2012/10/sinisters-blumhouse-and-scott-derrickson-re-team-on-stephen-king-novella-breathing-method/

Hot off an $18 million opening-weekend gross of Sinister that was six times its $3 million budget, Jason Blum‘s Blumhouse has teamed with Sinister director and co-writer Scott Derrickson on a screen adaptation of the Stephen King novella Breathing Method. They’ve secured an option on King’s work from the author, and the script will be written by Scott Teems. They haven’t yet set it for financing.

The novella was part of the 1982 King collection Different Seasons and is the only story in the volume that hasn’t been adapted. If focuses on an elderly physician named Dr. Emlyn McCarron, who recounts an incident in his career of a patient who was determined to give birth to her illegitimate child, despite her financial difficulties and the social stigma in the 1930s. The patient turns to the doctor because of the book he has written about the Breathing Method, a system to help women through childbirth. She grows close with the doctor, who finds that she is so determined to have the child through the method that she lingers on even after a horrific accident on the way to the hospital.

Blum is poised to have two exceptional weekends in a row as Paranormal Activity 4 bows this weekend. Sinister is just as much of a genre anomaly, as only a handful of films including The Last Exorcism and the Blum-produced Insidious turned in opening weekend at such a multiple of its small budget. Breathing Method will carry a higher budget, but certainly under $20 million.

CyberGhostface
10-15-2012, 04:04 PM
Cool, so now all of Different Seasons will be made into films.

EvaH
10-15-2012, 10:45 PM
But the ending, the ending! :panic:

pathoftheturtle
10-16-2012, 03:50 AM
Cool, so now all of Different Seasons will be made into films.Let's hope it's better than Apt Pupil.

herbertwest
10-16-2012, 03:02 PM
APT PUPIL was a brilliant movie !

pathoftheturtle
10-16-2012, 03:13 PM
No, Shawshank Redemption was a brilliant movie.

Bev Vincent
10-16-2012, 04:08 PM
I wonder if they'll keep the "club" conceit or focus on the pregnancy story.

herbertwest
10-17-2012, 10:56 AM
No, Shawshank Redemption was a brilliant movie.


Shawshank was brilliant. Apt Pupil was pretty good.

mae
07-01-2016, 05:55 PM
http://ihorror.com/stephen-kings-breathing-method-headed-tv/

The Breathing Method, Stephen King’s novella, which he first published in 1982, as part of his Different Seasons collection, is being turned into a television series – not a mini-series – by producer Jason Blum.

In 2012, it was announced that Blum was developing The Breathing Method as a feature film project through Universal, with Scott Derrickson (The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Sinister) slated to direct from a script by Scott Teems. There’s no word on whether Derrickson will be involved with the television series. “It’s active,” says Blum. “It’s moving along.”

The Breathing Method, which is the only one of the four novellas from Different Seasons to not yet receive the big screen treatment, tells the bizarrely romantic and heartbreaking story of an elderly Manhattan doctor who recounts his long ago encounter with a pregnant woman who is determined to give birth to her illegitimate child, despite being poor and having no family. As the doctor teaches the woman his unique breathing method, to help her get through childbirth, he falls in love with her.

The television series will focus on the relationship between the doctor and the woman, which begins in the 1930s, which leaves lots of room to explore the relationship between the doctor and the woman’s child, a boy, who is born in the story after his mother is decapitated. He’s then put up for adoption but watched over by the doctor, who keeps track of the boy’s – and the resulting man’s – progress.

No network is currently attached.

CyberGhostface
07-01-2016, 07:58 PM
So basically a show that uses the source material as a jumping off point for something completely different?

NoAttitudeThisTime
07-02-2016, 09:20 AM
Looks like it. And then adding some romance to it. Doesn't sound too exciting for me!

mtdman
07-02-2016, 05:20 PM
I don't think I ever read that story.

mae
07-21-2017, 03:08 PM
Not sure if it's an update exactly, but what the hey:

http://deadline.com/2017/07/stephen-king-hollywood-projects-assaf-bernstein-rose-madder-the-shining-broadway-1202133074/

The Breathing Method, based on the 1982 short story, has Weinstein Television and Jason Blum producing, Scott Teems writing and Doctor Strange’s Scott Derrickson directing a dark miniseries about a club of lawyers that is intertwined with an horrific death of a pregnant woman en route to deliver a baby from an illicit affair with one of the club members.