Hollywood will never get tired of exploiting the works of author Stephen King, but in recent months there’s been a great resurgence of interest in turning his novels into film and television properties. First Jonathan Demme, the Oscar-winning director of The Silence of the Lambs, options King’s newest novel 11/22/63 as a potential feature film. Then Warner Bros. begins developing the author’s epic horror-fantasy The Stand into a big-screen adaptation with Ben Affleck possibly calling the shots behind the camera. Most recently came the news that King’s 2009 supernatural horror novel Under the Dome was being turned into an original drama series at Showtime with acclaimed Lost writer and comics scribe Brian K. Vaughan (Y: The Last Man) writing the adaptation.

Now King’s 1996 fantasy novel Rose Madder has become his latest work to be earmarked for the celluloid treatment.