![]() ![]() ![]() Though it doesn't necessarily fit in with the genre fare for which King is best known, Billy Summers was a hit with both critics and fans when it arrived last year, with many declaring it among King's best 21st century work. But the more Billy learns about Joel and his past, the more he begins to suspect he might not be able to make a clean getaway after all. ![]() Billy's last target is Joel Allen, a fellow hitman who's about to face trial and, Billy's employer's believe, just might spill all the details he has on the mafia hit jobs he's taken over the years. Billy Summers is very good at what he does, and he's so meticulous about it that when he settles into a small town under the cover of being a writer trying to finish a book, he actually gets very involved in the telling of his own story. Released in the summer of 2021, Billy Summers is a crime novel about a hitman who agrees to take one last job in order to fund a comfortable retirement. With the team attached to the project, things are now expecting to start moving fast, with the production being shopped to both cable networks and streaming services. Deadline reports that Bad Robot is gearing up for a miniseries based on Billy Summers, King's 2021 bestselling crime thriller, from writer/director/producer duo Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz ( The Last Samurai, Blood Diamond). The work of Stephen King is about to get yet another prestige adaptation from J.J. ![]()
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