Caffeinated Clint
Director and effects man revealed
Rob Schmidt (“Wrong Turn”) has been tapped to bring Stephen King’s “Insomnia” – wonder if it will receive a name change to avoid confusion with the Pacino/Williams thing from a couple of years back? – according to Dread Central.
“I’m doing the film mainly because King was such a big fan of Wrong Turn!” says director Schmidt.
The site says creature master Stan Winston, who also collaborated with Schmidt on “Wrong Turn”, will be involved.
Here’s how HorrorKing.com describes the book :
You’ll lose a lot of sleep. Ralph does. At first he finds it hard to drop off. Then he starts waking up earlier. And earlier. But that isn’t when he starts seeing things. Colors, shapes, strange auras around his friends. Not to mention the bald doctors who always turn up at the scene of a death. The evil looking one clutching a rusty scalpel. All that comes later.
After Susan Edwina Day’s visit to the town of Derry, Maine, is announced – when the once placid town starts to divide over women’s issues. And the hitherto mild-mannered Ed Deepneau gets out of control – dangerously so.
That’s when Ralph begins to lose a lot more than sleep. When he begins to understand why Ed is obsessed with the notion that Derry is becoming the new Armageddon. And to realise that time is ticking away for the residents of his home town.
An evil of unimaginable proportions has found a way in. And Ralph has one chance to beat it. In a card game. The stakes are high. They always are when you are playing for human souls. With a Joker in the pack… a bald one with a rusty scalpel…
Steven Weber has his agent looking into it already, no doubt.
