Stephen King's Billy Summers TV show is now a Billy Summers movie, and J.J. Abrams & Leonardo DiCaprio are considering it.
The previously announced limited series adaptation of Stephen King's Billy Summers is now a feature film and it may have found its director and star. Deadline reports that the series became a film after some development and shopping around to cable/streamers, though it's unclear if the two things are related as a result of minimal interest on the TV side. J.J.
Should Abrams sign on to direct it will be his first movie since Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, while DiCaprio is currently waiting on his next collaboration with Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon, to be released. The pair have previously never worked together, but the movie would become the latest King adaptation from Abrams' company, which previously produced three other TV shows in the past including was 11.22.
Released in August of 2021, the official description for Billy Summers from King's website reads as follows:0comments "Billy Summers is a man in a room with a gun. He's a killer for hire and the best in the business. But he'll do the job only if the target is a truly bad guy. And now Billy wants out. But first there is one last hit. Billy is among the best snipers in the world, a decorated Iraq war vet, a Houdini when it comes to vanishing after the job is done.
"This spectacular can't-put-it-down novel is part war story, part love letter to small town America and the people who live there, and it features one of the most compelling and surprising duos in King fiction, who set out to avenge the crimes of an extraordinarily evil man. It's about love, luck, fate, and a complex hero with one last shot at redemption."
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