Variety reports that the upcoming adaptation of Stephen King’s Firestarter from Blumhouse and Universal has found its director in German filmmaker Fatih Akin.
Akin is best known for In the Fade, the 2018 Golden Globe winner for “Best Foreign Language Film”, as well as having won the Cannes’ best screenplay award for The Edge of Heaven.
Akin will replace Akiva Goldsman, the Academy Award winning screenwriter behind “A Beautiful Mind”, who was reported to be directing the film last year.
Following the massive commercial and critical success of IT, studios are continuing to develop and greenlight Stephen King adaptations.