Vincenzo Natali

Don’t be alarmed by those vibrations in the ground, it’s just the Kevin Bacon-starring Tremors TV series gearing up. Syfy has booked Cube and Splice director Vincenzo Natali to helm the pilot episode, picking up from the cult classic 1990 film.

Last week came the news that director Cary Fukanaga had left Warner Bros.’ upcoming adaptation of Stephen King’s IT following “creative differences” over the film. It wasn’t entirely surprising news (Fukanaga has a reputation for being an exacting and demanding director with little experience in the studio system), but it left the project in a state of limbo. We’ve since heard conflicting the reports — The project is dead! No wait, it’s not dead! Hold on, it’s dead again! — but as the studio figures out what they want to do, we can now take a look at what they almost did.

If Stephen King wrote it, chances are it will become a movie. King’s next project to head to the big screen is In the Tall Grass, a short story he wrote with his son, fellow author Joe Hill. Vincenzo Natali, best known for films like Cube and Splice, is writing and directing the adaptation, and although his last film wasn’t all that impressive, Natali’s visual talents should translate well to this particularly chilling tale.