I'm an enormous Stephen King fan, we talk every day, and there's never going to be a writer who's influence is going to be on my work like his. 'My book does carry a lot of echoes of The Stand, which is a novel that I adored, and you know, I sometimes joked that the book is The Stand if it was soaked in gasoline and set on fire,' he said, later adding: 'But the truth is, I love my dad. Speaking with NPR in 2016 around the book's publication, Hill didn't shy away from comparisons to his famous father. From the award-winning, New York Times best-selling author of NOS4A2 and Heart-Shaped Box comes a chilling novel about a worldwide pandemic of spontaneous. The title refers to a mysterious figure dressed in a yellow fire fighter's jacket who roams the ruins of civilization, protecting the innocent and avenging those who have been wronged with the help of an iron bar. There is no cure for the disease - colloquially known as 'Dragonscale' - which prompts mass terror and the fall of society.

Reminiscent of The Stand ( Stephen King just so happens to be Hill's father), the book takes place in a world where a strange affliction starts causing people to spontaneously burst into flames. “ The Fireman showcases a theme that Walden holds very dear - the idea of celebrating ordinary people who rise in extraordinary circumstances.” I can’t imagine a timelier book to be developing into a series,” Smith, who serves as Walden CEO, said in a statement to THR. “We’re so excited to be working with celebrated author Joe Hill on The Fireman. Hill is on board to executive producer alongside Frank Smith and Naia Cucukov of the production company. No we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it.' The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that Walden Media ( Finch, Rumble) intends to adapt Joe Hill's 2016 post-apocalyptic novel The Fireman for television.

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