Deadline reports that Scott Derrickson, enjoying the success of his new horror film Sinister (here’s my review), is moving to direct a film based on a Stephen King novella called Breathing Method. The adaptation was written by Scott Teems (That Evening Sun).
What’s it about?
The novella was part of the 1982 King collection Different Seasons and was the only story in the volume that hasn’t yet 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.
Derrickson is so busy, I get tired just keeping track of his projects.
If you read what I wrote in order to introduce him at a conference recently, you read about his collaboration with director Atom Egoyan on a movie about the West Memphis Three.