Max announced an October premiere date for the Stephen King adaptation Salem's Lot on Friday. The streaming service didn’t specify the date in October. In the film, author Ben Mears (Lewis Pullman) returns to his hometown of Jerusalem's Lot to work on a new book. He discovers his hometown is now home to vampires. King would make authors his character again in stories like Misery, The Dark Half, Secret Window and Lisey’s Story. Alfre Woodard, Makenzie Leigh, Bill Camp, Spencer Treat Clark, Pilou Asbæk, and John Benjamin Hickey also star.