RLJE Films and Shudder have acquired the rights to release director Kurt Wimmer’s new adaptation of Stephen King’s horror novel Children of the Corn. The companies recently announced that the movie will debut in theaters on March 3 for an 18-day theatrical run. On March 21, the new film will then be available on demand and digitally. The trailer made its debut today.

The new film, the eleventh overall in the series, will be the first to be seen on the big screen since John Gulager’s Children of the Corn: Runaway in 2018.

More Crazy Children

A twelve-year-old girl in Nebraska recruits the other kids in her small town to go on a bloody rampage and kill all the adults and anyone else who opposes her in Wimmer’s film, which is said to have very little to do with King’s novel. The only person the town has to turn to for help is a bright high school student who won’t follow the plan.

Elena Kampouris (Before I Fall), Kate Moyer (When Hope Calls), Callan Mulvey (Avengers: Endgame), and Bruce Spence are among the cast members of the new movie (The Road Warrior).

For those who are unfamiliar with him, Kurt Wimmer is the director of movies like Equilibrium, starring Christian Bale, and Ultraviolet, starring Milla Jovovich. Although he has written for more recent films like Law Abiding Citizen, Salt, Total Recall, and Point Break, as well as the 2020 horror film Spell, Children of the Corn is his first motion picture since 2006.