Rachel Nichols Joins Stephen King Adaptation 'Ten O'Clock People' (Exclusive)

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Rachel Nichols is in negotiations to join Justin Long in Stephen King's The Ten O'Clock People.

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The adaptation of King's short story, first published in Nightmares and Dreamscapes in 1993, is being directed by Tom Holland.  Holland, a 1980s horror maven who wrote and directed Fright Night and Child's Play, previously tackled King’s Thinner and The Langoliers.

The story centers on a man who, when attempting to kick his smoking habit, has his eyes opened to a frightening reality in which many people in authority are monsters. He joins a group of others like him called the Ten O’Clock People.

Nichols would play a woman who, like the man, can see a horrible aspect of reality, hidden in plain sight.

Nathaniel Kramer and E.J. Meyers are producing.

Nichols, repped by UTA, played Scarlett in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra and was the female lead in last year’s Conan the Barbarian.