Stephen King's first fantasy book, Fairy Tale, is being adapted as a TV show by A24. Per Deadline, the book was initially going to be a feature film from Universal, but, since the novel runs over 600 pages,

Fairy Tale, a 2022 dark fantasy novel by author Stephen King, is being adapted into a 10-episode TV series at A24.

One doesn’t have to look far back into history to discover evidence of a Stephen King novel being uncomfortably squeezed into a standard-length feature film. As I noted in my CinemaBlend review, Gary Dauberman’s Salem’s Lot does an effective job with King’s story and characters,

Stephen King’s Fairy Tale novel is being turned into a television series. Fairy Tale was published in September 2022. Written by King, the novel follows a 17-year-old boy named Charlie Reade who finds himself in the middle of a war between good and evil after he is transported to a hidden realm.