EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has made a deal to turn the Stephen King bestselling novel Cujo into a new feature film. Roy Lee is producing, and they will go out to writers immediately.

Netflix has greenlit a remake of Stephen King’s novel “ Cujo ,” a horror story about a mother and son who get trapped in their car while protecting themselves from a rabid dog.

Director Lewis Teague's Cujo is a great movie. It develops as a slow burn, giving the audience time to get to understand the relationships and conflicts in the Trenton family, and then it unleashes extreme terror as a mother and her child find themselves trapped in a broken down car during a heat wave and under siege by a rabid St.

Cujo is getting a Netflix make-over. TV fans have much to say about the 1983 Stephen King classic about a mom trying to protect her son from a rabid dog getting a modern remake

The Monkey is the first Stephen King movie of the year, but the next one, to be released in November, is very different but equally exciting.

Roy Lee ("Barbarian") will produce "Cujo," which is currently out to writers. King's original 1981 novel centers on a mother and son, who are trapped in a hot car, being terrorized by a rabid 200-lbs.

Netflix has greenlit a remake of Stephen King's novel Cujo. King's 1981 book was first adapted for the screen in the 1983 feature film of the same name starring ET's Dee Wallace, Daniel Hugh Kelly and Danny Pintauro.

Netflix is adapting Stephen King's Cujo into a new feature film, potentially restoring its darker ending after Lewis Teague's 1983 movie changed it.

Netflix is getting into the Stephen King business. The streamer will adapt Cujo, King's 1981 novel, as a movie.The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox

Stephen King's Cujo will live to bark another day: a new movie adaptation of the horror master's novel is in the works at Netflix.