Helmer Care Bags Bones - 9:00am ET, 28-October-02

Peter Care (The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys) has closed a deal to develop and direct MGM's film based on Stephen King's 1985 horror best-seller Bag of Bones, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The deal, pending approval from King, will see Care directing from an adaptation by David Velos, the trade paper reported.

The movie tells the story of Mike Noonan, a novelist who is helped by the spirit of his dead wife to exorcise the spirit of a murder victim who has killed several children and now has her eyes on an innocent 3-year-old, the trade paper reported. Bruce Willis and Arnold Rifkin's Cheyenne Enterprises is producing, and Care's wife, Lorraine, is co-producing.

--I loved this book! it will make a great movie!!