Ben Stiller will be a producer, director and protagonist of Stephen King's "Rat"

All four stories from Stephen King's most recent novel "If It Bleeds" will receive adaptations to film and television. 

Ben Stiller will be a producer, director and protagonist of "Rat".

The story centres on a frustrated writer named Drew Larson. Every time he tries to turn a good idea into a novel, something terrible happens. After receiving inspiration for a new book, abandons his life and family and he heads out to an old family cabin in the woods to get it done.

There he finds a talking rat. The rodent offers a deal to help him finalize his book, but that deal has some consequences. The rat offers to get rid of his writer’s block in exchange for one of Larson’s loved ones dying.

Severe storms occur and he makes a Faustian bargain with a rat to alleviate his writer’s block. Larson believes it was done in a dream state of delirium, but finds when he returns home that he made a rat pact.