Cujo: Netflix wants this renowned director for his new adaptation of Stephen King

It may be our job, at the beginning of 2025 we lost the account of existing (or future) adaptations of the writings of the very prolific Stephen King.

Netflix also works on a new version in a feature film of the novel Cujo (1981), already suitable for the big screen in 1983. And we have just learned that the streaming service would have set its sights on a prestigious director to go behind the camera.

A rumor that has dogs

This director, who is currently in talks with Netflix, is none other than Darren Aronofsky. This name may not tell you much, but it is however the director of the cult film Requiem for a Dream.

Since then, the man who has never worked for a streaming platform or in pure horror, however Black Swan,, The Wrestler,, Mother! or the Oscar winner The Whale. So a serious filmography. Before Cujohis most recent work can be seen in Caught Stealingnext August at the cinema.

As a reminder, in Cujothe book like the film is a question of following a Saint-Bernard infected with the rabies virus, and which traps a woman (embodied by Dee Wallace in the first film) and her child in a car.

• Look at the trailer for Cujo (1983):

If this is confirmed, Darren Aronofsky and Netflix will therefore have to do better than the adaptation of 1983, which had raised $ 21 million to the box office at the time.

To support this hypothetical director, the experienced producer Roy Lee is already officially on board. The latter has already produced Stephen King for screens, of which Salem And That. To follow therefore.