40 years after starring in Stand By Me, the adaptation of Stephen King‘s The Body, Wil Wheaton has returned to the story that helped launch his career.
Wheaton, who played Gordie Lachance in Rob Reiner’s 1986 film, narrates the first standalone audiobook edition of the seminal coming-of-age novella.
The Body audiobook will be released on March 24 via Simon & Schuster.
Set in 1960, the story takes place in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine. When a boy from a nearby town disappears, 12-year-old Gordie Lachance and his three friends set out on a quest to find his body along the railroad tracks.
During the course of their journey, Gordie, Chris Chambers, Teddy Duchamp, and Vern Tessio come to terms with death and the harsh truths of growing up in a small factory town that doesn’t offer much in the way of a future.
“Narrating The Body by Stephen King, the story that became Stand By Me, has been an extraordinary and deeply meaningful experience for me,” said Wheaton. “This story has stayed with me my entire life, and revisiting it in this way is something I’ve hoped to do for a long time. It’s truly a full-circle moment for me and a dream come true.”
The Body was originally published in King’s 1982 short story collection Different Seasons.
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