In 1988, George A. Romero was approached to direct the film adaptation, but it never happened.[5] By 2007, Frank Darabont had secured the rights to the film adaptation of the novel.[6] He said that he would "get to it one day". He planned to make it low-budget, "weird, existential, and very self contained".[7] Kirby Heyborne narrated an audiobook adaptation of the novel in 2010 for Blackstone Audio. In April 2018, it was announced that New Line Cinema would develop a film adaptation of the novel. Darabont's rights to the film had lapsed, and filmmaker James Vanderbilt stepped in to write and produce the film with Bradley Fischer and William Sherak of the Mythology Entertainment production company.[8] On May 21, 2019, New Line announced that André Øvredal would direct the adaptation,[9] and on November 28, 2023, Francis Lawrence was announced to direct the adaptation.[10]
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