The play adapted from Stephen King’s Misery begens it’s limited 16-week run at Broadway’s Broadhurst Theatre later this month. It stars Bruce Willis as the ill fated novelist Paul Sheldon and Laurie Metcalf as his ‘number one fan” Annie Wilkes. On top of the play’s stellar cast it’s also written by Academy Award-winner William Goldman who wrote the now iconic Misery film. Thanks to Entertainment Weekly we now have the first images from the show and it looks great.

It really looks like they’ve captured the awesome tension of the Stephen King classic. Goldman’s Misery film came out in 1990 and was directed by Rob Reiner and starred James Caan as Sheldon and Kathy Bates as Annie Wilkes. Bates absolutely stole the movie with one of the most terrifying and amazing performances in film history and she took home both the Golden Globe and Academy Award that year for her trouble. With it’s small cast and settings Misery is a great choice for a stage play and on top of Willis and Metcalf the show is in good hands with director Will Frears. The show officially opens on November 15th. Anyone in New York during it’s run should definitely try to see it.