James Wan and Larry Sanitsky teaming up for Stephen King’s Tommyknockers Universal Pictures has won a bidding war for the big screen rights to Stephen King novel The Tommyknockers, according to The Hollywood Reporter. James Wan (The Conjuring) and Roy Lee (IT) will produce the film, which has no director or writer yet. Universal reportedly beat out Sony Pictures and Netflix for the rights. The 1987 horror novel is described as follows: Writer Bobbi Anderson becomes obsessed with digging up something she’s found buried in the woods near her home.