The Warner Bros. adaptation of Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot will be creeping into cinemas later than planned. Previously scheduled to release in September of this year, the latest King horror movie has moved to April 21st, 2023.

It films writer and Annabelle Comes Home helmer Gary Dauberman is directing Salem’s Lot, which stars Lewis Pullman(recently seen in Top Gun: Maverick), Makenzie Leigh, Alfre Woodard, John Benjamin Hickey, Bill Camp, Jordan Preston Carter, and Pilou Asbaek. James Wan is producing.

Salem’s Lot centres on an author who, upon returning to his hometown, discovers the townspeople are being turned into vampires. King’s novel was adapted twice before, both times for television: as a two-part mini-series directed by Texas Chain Saw Massacre helmer Tobe Hooper, and in 2004 starring Rob Lowe.

It’s unclear why the New Line project was delayed, but it comes as THR reports a number of Warner Bros. films have been pushed back, including House Party, which stars Tosin Cole and Jacob Latimore, and The Last Train to New York – a remake of Korean zombie horror Train to Busan. The later is also a James Wan and Gary Dauberman project; it was previously scheduled to debut on the date now reserved for Salem’s Lot.