Subtitle The Dark Half Here

A novelist, Thad Beaumont, buries his grisly pseudonym, George Stark, after his pen name is exposed, only for the pseudonym to take on a physical life and go on a murder spree.

Stephen King's 1989 bestseller The Dark Half . subtitle The Dark Half

As of 2026, a new feature film adaptation of Stephen King’s 1989 novel, The Dark Half , is in development at MGM, with writer-director Alex Ross Perry ("Her Smell") attached to helm the project. This upcoming film is intended as a reinvention of the 1993 adaptation directed by George A. Romero, which followed an author whose pseudonym takes on a murderous life of its own. Writer/Director: Alex Ross Perry. Studio: MGM. A novelist, Thad Beaumont, buries his grisly pseudonym,