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New TV trailer: Lisey's Story (Apple TV) from Stephen King starring Julianne Moore & Clive Owen
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Apple TV+ reveals first look at “Lisey’s Story,” from creator Stephen King and starring Academy Award winner Julianne Moore and Golden Globe Award winner Clive Owen
New limited series based on the best-selling novel to debut summer 2021 on Apple TV+
Julianne Moore in “Lisey’s Story,” a new limited series premiering this summer on Apple TV+.
“Lisey’s Story,” the highly anticipated Apple Original limited series from creator and executive producer Stephen King, executive producer J.J. Abrams, director and executive producer Pablo Larraín, and starring and executive produced by Academy Award winner Julianne Moore, will make its global debut this summer on Apple TV+. The news was revealed today at the Television Critics Association Winter 2021 Press Tour, along with a first look at the star-studded eight-episode series.
Based on the best-selling novel by Stephen King, and adapted by the author himself, “Lisey’s Story” is a deeply personal thriller that follows Lisey Landon (played by Moore) two years after the death of her husband, famous novelist Scott Landon (played by Clive Owen). A series of unsettling events causes Lisey to face memories of her marriage to Scott that she has deliberately blocked out of her mind. Joan Allen, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Dane DeHaan, Sung Kang and Ron Cephas Jones star alongside Moore and Owen.
An Apple Original limited series, "Lisey’s Story" is directed by Pablo Larraín, and hails from J. J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions and Warner Bros. Television. In a rare step, every episode of the series was personally written by Stephen King. King, Moore, and Larraín executive produce alongside Abrams, Ben Stephenson and Juan de Dios Larraín.
“Lisey’s Story” will join upcoming limited series set to premiere on Apple TV+ including “The Shrink Next Door,” based on the No. 1 new podcast of 2019 by Wondery and Bloomberg Media, and starring Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd and Kathryn Hahn; “Hedy Lamarr,” starring and executive produced by Gal Gadot, and written and executive produced by Golden Globe Award winner Sarah Treem; “Five Days At Memorial,” a new limited series from Academy Award winner John Ridley; and the recently announced “WeCrashed,” starring Academy, Golden Globe and SAG Award winner Jared Leto and Academy, Golden Globe and SAG Award winner Anne Hathaway.
Apple TV+ is home to award-winning Apple Originals from today’s most imaginative storytellers. Apple TV+ offers premium, compelling drama and comedy series, feature films, groundbreaking documentaries, and kids and family entertainment, and is available to watch across all your favorite screens. After its launch on November 1, 2019, Apple TV+ became the first all-original streaming service to launch around the world, and has premiered more original hits and received more award recognitions faster than any other streaming service. Apple Originals have been honored with 249 awards nominations and 70 wins in just over a year, including Critics Choice Awards, Critics Choice Documentary Awards, Daytime and Primetime Emmy Awards, an NAACP Image Award, a Peabody Award and more.
Apple TV+ is available on the Apple TV app in over 100 countries and regions, on over 1 billion screens, including iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, iPod touch, Mac, select Samsung, LG, Sony and VIZIO smart TVs, Amazon Fire TV and Roku devices, Chromecast with Google TV, PlayStation and Xbox consoles, and at tv.apple.com, for $4.99 per month with a seven-day free trial. For a limited time, customers who purchase a new iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Mac or iPod touch can enjoy one year of Apple TV+ for free. This special offer is good for three months after the first activation of the eligible device.1
New limited series based on the best-selling novel to debut summer 2021 on Apple TV+
Julianne Moore in “Lisey’s Story,” a new limited series premiering this summer on Apple TV+.
“Lisey’s Story,” the highly anticipated Apple Original limited series from creator and executive producer Stephen King, executive producer J.J. Abrams, director and executive producer Pablo Larraín, and starring and executive produced by Academy Award winner Julianne Moore, will make its global debut this summer on Apple TV+. The news was revealed today at the Television Critics Association Winter 2021 Press Tour, along with a first look at the star-studded eight-episode series.
Based on the best-selling novel by Stephen King, and adapted by the author himself, “Lisey’s Story” is a deeply personal thriller that follows Lisey Landon (played by Moore) two years after the death of her husband, famous novelist Scott Landon (played by Clive Owen). A series of unsettling events causes Lisey to face memories of her marriage to Scott that she has deliberately blocked out of her mind. Joan Allen, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Dane DeHaan, Sung Kang and Ron Cephas Jones star alongside Moore and Owen.
An Apple Original limited series, "Lisey’s Story" is directed by Pablo Larraín, and hails from J. J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions and Warner Bros. Television. In a rare step, every episode of the series was personally written by Stephen King. King, Moore, and Larraín executive produce alongside Abrams, Ben Stephenson and Juan de Dios Larraín.
“Lisey’s Story” will join upcoming limited series set to premiere on Apple TV+ including “The Shrink Next Door,” based on the No. 1 new podcast of 2019 by Wondery and Bloomberg Media, and starring Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd and Kathryn Hahn; “Hedy Lamarr,” starring and executive produced by Gal Gadot, and written and executive produced by Golden Globe Award winner Sarah Treem; “Five Days At Memorial,” a new limited series from Academy Award winner John Ridley; and the recently announced “WeCrashed,” starring Academy, Golden Globe and SAG Award winner Jared Leto and Academy, Golden Globe and SAG Award winner Anne Hathaway.
Apple TV+ is home to award-winning Apple Originals from today’s most imaginative storytellers. Apple TV+ offers premium, compelling drama and comedy series, feature films, groundbreaking documentaries, and kids and family entertainment, and is available to watch across all your favorite screens. After its launch on November 1, 2019, Apple TV+ became the first all-original streaming service to launch around the world, and has premiered more original hits and received more award recognitions faster than any other streaming service. Apple Originals have been honored with 249 awards nominations and 70 wins in just over a year, including Critics Choice Awards, Critics Choice Documentary Awards, Daytime and Primetime Emmy Awards, an NAACP Image Award, a Peabody Award and more.
Apple TV+ is available on the Apple TV app in over 100 countries and regions, on over 1 billion screens, including iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, iPod touch, Mac, select Samsung, LG, Sony and VIZIO smart TVs, Amazon Fire TV and Roku devices, Chromecast with Google TV, PlayStation and Xbox consoles, and at tv.apple.com, for $4.99 per month with a seven-day free trial. For a limited time, customers who purchase a new iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Mac or iPod touch can enjoy one year of Apple TV+ for free. This special offer is good for three months after the first activation of the eligible device.1
LISEY'S STORY: STEPHEN KING HAS VERSACE TO THANK FOR PUSHING HIM TO ADAPT ONE OF HIS PERSONAL FAVORITE WORKS
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Josh Weiss
@JoshuaHWeiss
May 10, 2021, 12:25 PM EDT
There have been dozens of Stephen King adaptations over the years, but the prolific horror author has usually taken more of a hands-off approach by allowing writers and filmmakers to put their own unique stamp on his iconic novels, novellas, and short stories. Lisey's Story is a rare exception to that rule because the 2006 book is among King's personal favorites. Indeed, his love of the source material is what drove him to pen all eight episodes of the miniseries adaptation coming to Apple TV+ early next month.
"I would never have gotten involved with this thing at my age, if it wasn't," the 73-year-old King recently explained to Entertainment Weekly. "You know, they're all my favorites. I love them all. Some of them are difficult children to love, some of them a little bit easier. This is a little bit difficult to love, but I've always loved the story and that's the reason I got involved."
Another motivator was famed Italian fashion designer, Gianni Versace, or, more specifically, the 9-part FX series (The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story) that chronicled his murder in 1997. "I looked at that thing and I said to myself, my goodness, this guy Tom Rob Smith wrote the whole thing," King added. "He wrote all eight or nine episodes, and I thought, 'Well, if he could do that, and bring it home and do such a great job, what about Lisey?'"
Credit: Apple TV+
Executive-produced by King and J.J. Abrams, Lisey's Story is *ahem* the story of a recently-widowed woman (played by Julianne Moore) who begins to uncover a dark secret about her late husband, Scott Landon (Clive Owen), a best-selling author. Pablo Larraín (Jackie) helmed all eight episodes and executive-produces alongside King, Abrams, Ben Stephenson (Westworld) and Juan de Dios Larraín (Jackie).
For King, whose books are notorious for running in excess of 1,000 pages or more (Lisey's is a little over 500), the prospect of doing an eight-hour TV show excited him. "The whole form of longform TV is opened up in a way that it wasn't before," he said. "You have a chance to do more. You can be a little more graphic with language and with sexual situations and with length, [and have] the chance to do something that has that kind of spread, texture, and a little more nuance. For guys like me, it's been great."
"It's all in there," Moore told EW, referring to the fact that the adaptation is incredibly faithful to the book. "Because there's so much in it — psychological horror, romance, mystery, a science-fiction-like quality, sort of scary brutality — sometimes I was like, 'Holy cow, what now?'"
Lisey's Story premieres on Apple TV+ Friday, June 4
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Contributed by
Josh Weiss
@JoshuaHWeiss
May 10, 2021, 12:25 PM EDT
There have been dozens of Stephen King adaptations over the years, but the prolific horror author has usually taken more of a hands-off approach by allowing writers and filmmakers to put their own unique stamp on his iconic novels, novellas, and short stories. Lisey's Story is a rare exception to that rule because the 2006 book is among King's personal favorites. Indeed, his love of the source material is what drove him to pen all eight episodes of the miniseries adaptation coming to Apple TV+ early next month.
"I would never have gotten involved with this thing at my age, if it wasn't," the 73-year-old King recently explained to Entertainment Weekly. "You know, they're all my favorites. I love them all. Some of them are difficult children to love, some of them a little bit easier. This is a little bit difficult to love, but I've always loved the story and that's the reason I got involved."
Another motivator was famed Italian fashion designer, Gianni Versace, or, more specifically, the 9-part FX series (The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story) that chronicled his murder in 1997. "I looked at that thing and I said to myself, my goodness, this guy Tom Rob Smith wrote the whole thing," King added. "He wrote all eight or nine episodes, and I thought, 'Well, if he could do that, and bring it home and do such a great job, what about Lisey?'"
Credit: Apple TV+
Executive-produced by King and J.J. Abrams, Lisey's Story is *ahem* the story of a recently-widowed woman (played by Julianne Moore) who begins to uncover a dark secret about her late husband, Scott Landon (Clive Owen), a best-selling author. Pablo Larraín (Jackie) helmed all eight episodes and executive-produces alongside King, Abrams, Ben Stephenson (Westworld) and Juan de Dios Larraín (Jackie).
For King, whose books are notorious for running in excess of 1,000 pages or more (Lisey's is a little over 500), the prospect of doing an eight-hour TV show excited him. "The whole form of longform TV is opened up in a way that it wasn't before," he said. "You have a chance to do more. You can be a little more graphic with language and with sexual situations and with length, [and have] the chance to do something that has that kind of spread, texture, and a little more nuance. For guys like me, it's been great."
"It's all in there," Moore told EW, referring to the fact that the adaptation is incredibly faithful to the book. "Because there's so much in it — psychological horror, romance, mystery, a science-fiction-like quality, sort of scary brutality — sometimes I was like, 'Holy cow, what now?'"
Lisey's Story premieres on Apple TV+ Friday, June 4
Lisey's Story: Stephen King has Versace to thank for pushing him to adapt one of his personal favorite works
Executive-produced by King and J.J. Abrams, Lisey's Story premieres on Apple TV+ Friday, June 4.
Julianne Moore on starring in Stephen King's genre-bending 'Lisey's Story': 'Holy cow, what now?'
Julianne Moore and Stephen King preview their new limited series 'Lisey's Story,' which King adapted himself based on his 2006 best-seller.
There is no filmmaker better at telling the stories of shook widows than Jackie’s Pablo Larraín. Just watch the trailer for his new Apple TV+ miniseries, Lisey’s Story, based on Stephen King’s 2006 novel. In this spooky glimpse, Julianne Moore plays Lisey Landon, who’s haunted by the death of her successful novelist husband Scott (Clive Owen), who had an unfortunate condition of occasionally getting “unstuck from reality.” Scott leads Lisey on a posthumous scavenger hunt where she must “solve all the riddles, find all the clues,” which is extra-hard to do in all that thick Maine fog. Meanwhile, Lisey’s warding off a literary agent (Ron Cephas Jones) and superfan (Dane DeHaan, yo-yoing ominously) who may be out for more than just manuscripts. Produced by J.J. Abrams and adapted by King itself, Lisey’s Story is out June 4 and looks like some good, reliable summertime spookiness.