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 […]
Television director and producer J.J. Abrams will reteam with author Stephen King for Castle Rock, destined to be a Hulu limited series. Their first collaboration, based on King’s novel 11.22.63, aired in 2016. GQ called the limited series “moody and supernatural, while somehow also remaining grounded and full of heart.” As King fans know, Castle Rock is a fictional Maine town that crops up in many of King’s works, short and long, including The Dead […]
James Franco. Stephen King. Both names that get tossed around a lot in Hollywood. And now they will get tossed around together. This from Deadline Hollywood: Drunken Fireworks is a darkly comic tale of a blue-collar mechanic and a retired mob boss who go head to head in an increasingly antagonistic annual Fourth of July fireworks competition. The tale is set in small-town rural Maine, where local good ol’ boy Alden McCausland (Franco) strikes up […]
As reported here mid-2015, a film adaptation of Stephen King’s Dark Tower series is about to become reality with direction by Nikolaj Arcel (A Royal Affair, Truth About Men) and starring Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey. From Entertainment Weekly: After many years, and many attempts, a film version of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower is finally getting underway with Idris Elba confirmed as the gunslinger and Matthew McConaughey as the mystical foe known as the […]
Hulu has released the trailer for its upcoming adaptation of Stephen King’s 11/22/63, and it looks worth waiting for! As Deadline Hollywood says, 11/22/63 “has everything an early ’60s buff could need – fedoras, James Franco in a Mad Men-era suit, romance, a pink Cadillac (I think, or something close to it) and, for some reason perhaps known to the readers of King’s novel, a bunch of roaches.” James Franco, Daniel Webber, Sarah Gadon, Josh […]
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