It’s far enough away that we don’t even want to think about it yet, but suddenly there’s an excerpt and we wanted a peek. Figured you might, too. In any case, a new novel by Stephen King is always something to get excited about, even if well in advance. It turns out that Fairy Tale, King’s new novel (due to drop September 22, so be patient!) starts with happiness, or the reaching for it. “What […]
New Yorker archive editor Erin Overbey reminds us of that time 20 years ago when novelist Stephen King was hit by a car while walking. It was an accident that nearly took the author’s life as well as his ability to write. In a beautiful New Yorker essay, the author recounts his the nightmare of the accident and his slow recovery. After the accident, when King comes to at the side of the road, the […]
Throttle, the 2012 novella by father-and-son writing team of Stephen King and Joe Jill, has been optioned by HBO. From Deadline Hollywood: HBO Max is in the early development stage of a feature adaptation for the Throttle novella, which was co-written by Stephen King and his son Joe Hill, who is the NYT bestselling author of The Fireman and Strange Weather. Leigh Dana Jackson, a co-executive producer on the Netflix series Raising Dion, will write […]
The Shawshank Redemption, the adaptation of Stephen King’s 1982 novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, turned 25 last month. The film starred Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins and very nearly ended up shuffled off to obscurity. But fate offered an unexpected reprieve. From Deadline Hollywood: Twenty-five years ago, The Shawshank Redemption finished as a first-run failure that seemed sentenced to obscurity. But then Frank Darabont’s stirring cellblock epic found an unlikely reprieve and followed an […]
Stephen King figured that his 1983 novel Pet Cemetery (shown at right) was too scary to publish. On the eve of the debut of the second film based on the book, the author tells EW why. In an interview published today, King tells of going deeply into the book again recently. “I was curious about it. You know, I hadn’t been near it in 20, 25 years. So I listened to it, and thought, “My […]
Stephen King’s novella Mile 81 (Simon & Schuster) heralded in the arrival (n full) of the e-book era back when it was first (electronically) published in 2011. Mile 81 wasn’t excerpted from something else. It wasn’t a reprint. It was an ebook, and the only way you could get it was to download it. Suddenly, we know: the ebook had gone from flash in the dark to (almost) mainstream. Fast Forward eight years and it’s […]
Another novel by dark master Stephen King will soon be heading to the big screen. King’s 2002 novel, From A Buck 8, has been optioned by Hyde Park Entertainment (Prey, Antitrust). From Deadline Hollywood: Stephen King’s bestselling novel From A Buick 8 has been optioned by Ashok Amritraj’s Hyde Park Entertainment. Amritraj has set William Brent Bell to write the script and direct. Bell last helmed the STX release The Boy, and his other credits […]
There has been talk of a big screen adaptation of Stephen King’s epic Dark Tower series almost since the first book: Dark Tower: The Gunslinger, was published in 1982. Roland Deschain’s ongoing hero’s journey has always begged for a big screen interpretation. And there have been lots who would have liked to make it. Getting the right players to the table has been another story. But now Nikolaj Arcel has been tapped to direct and the […]
It’s always fun when a high powered screen name heads to Broadway. But this production? This sounds golden all the way through. From The Hollywood Reporter: [Bruce] Willis will make his Broadway debut opposite stage veteran Elizabeth Marvel (Other Desert Cities, House of Cards) in the play written by two-time Academy Award winner William Goldman (The Princess Bride, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid), who also wrote the screenplay for the 1990 Rob Reiner film […]
It hardly seems like it should be news. And yet. On December 6th, iconic author Stephen King (Carrie, The Shining) uttered his first tweet: “No longer a virgin,” King tweeted. “Be gentle!” “On Twitter at last,” he tweeted later that day, “and can’t think of a thing to say. Some writer I turned out to be.” Within 90 minutes, King had 30,000 followers. A few days later, nearly 175,000 followers. King’s most recent novel, Dr. […]
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