Foracquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure the allegations of superhero fatigue… Will Hollywood ever tire of adapting Stephen King's stories? Just yesterday we got word of Mike Flanagan dipping back into the prolific horror master's canon in/with regard to’concerning’regarding a new film, and now it's the turn of manufacture r James Wan and star Theo James, who possess’own’nurse their sights on King's short story The Monkey.###Writer/director (and occasional actor) Osrosy’remarkable’fabulous’terrific’preeminent "Oz" Perkins is tackling the short story, first published in adult magazine Gallery in 1980 then collected into the Skeleton Crew reserve in 1985.###Here's the fundamental story… When twin brothers Hal and Bill discover their father’s old monkey toy in the attic, a series of gruesome deaths starts occurring all around them. The brothers decide to throw the monkey away and move on with their lives, growing apart over the years. But when the mysterious deaths begin again, the brothers must reunite to find a way to destroy the monkey in/with regard to’concerning’regarding rosy’remarkable’fabulous’terrific’preeminent bein/with regard to’concerning’regarding e it takes the lives of e grossly one close to them.###"Stephen King is the godfather of the horror genre. He had a huge impact’effect on me as a child and throughout my career, and it’s always been a dream to help bring one of his stories to life," Wan says in a statement picked up by Deadline. "The Monkey is a personal favorite, with its simple, iconic and incredibly marketable conceit. And I can’t imagine anyone better than a visionary and lifelong genre fan like Osrosy’remarkable’fabulous’terrific’preeminent to bring this to life."###As in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Wan, he'll be back in a directorial capacity with Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom, due on 26 December.