Netflix has given a green light to a movie reboot of the Stephen King novel Cujo. As a kid this movie scared the popcorn right out of my mouth!

Roy Lett, not his first rodeo when it comes to redoing Stephen King novels, is producing, and they will go out to writers immediately.

The novel, originally published in 1981, was first turned into a 1983 thriller that starred Dee Wallace as a mother desperate to protect her son from a formerly friendly 200-pound St. Bernard that has been bitten by a rabid bat and turns into a ferocious, calculating hound that leaves a trail of bodies. Mom and her son get stuck in her small car that won’t start, and their choices are to battle it out with the rabid oversized hound or risk heatstroke in a hot car.

The film was one of many adaptations of King’s thriller bestsellers that turned into film hits. These include book-to-screen adaptations of The Shining, The Shawshank Redemption, Stand by Me, It and the sequel It Chapter Two.

King continues to be as prolific as ever — Never Flinch will be next one published, and he’s working on a third installment of The Talisman — but his backlist continues to be golden!