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A lot of Stephen King properties have been optioned for film and TV of late, and now his short story THE REACH, from the 80s collection SKELETON CREW is being trolled out for buyers in the coming weeks at Cannes in the hopes of generating hype and an interested buyer to shepherd the project to… [Continue Reading]
Stephen King’s sci-fi saga has had a long and tortured road to the big screen, much like Roland and company in the novels. But, it sounds like Ron Howard is optimistic, and so should we. JoBlo reports that Howard recently met with Akiva Goldsman (FRINGE) and Erica Huggins to discuss the script and story that would… [Continue Reading]
Stephen King’s EYES OF THE DRAGON is coming to SyFy in the near future, as either a TV series or TV movie, according to Shock Till You Drop. With the success of GAME OF THRONES and the return of Middle-Earth on the horizon, fantasy is back in the limelight. Written in 1987, the book has… [Continue Reading]
To celebrate the publication of THE WIND THROUGH THE KEYHOLE, the long awaited new entry in Stephen King’s DARK TOWER series, publisher Scribner has announced a contest to put the face of a few lucky fans on the book’s back cover art. The official King Facebook page gives the scoop: “Using mosaic design technologies, thousands of readers’… [Continue Reading]
Stephen King is the master of many things, most notable the macabre, and nobody would argue that he is the master of the anthology. Whether we are talking film (CREEPSHOW, CREEPSHOW 2), or print (NIGHT SHIFT, NIGHTMARES AND DREAMSCAPES), King certainly has a knack for cooking up devilishly eclectic spooky stews. Today, Icons of Fright… [Continue Reading]
Stephen King and son Joe Hill (nee Joe Hillstrom King) teamed up back in 2009 on a short story called THROTTLE, the tale of a motorcycle gang being pursued by a madman in a big rig. The story was featured in the compilation book He Is Legend: An Anthology Celebrating Richard Matheson (Tor Books), as well as an… [Continue Reading]
Mick Garris’ two-part telefilm BAG OF BONES, based on the 1998 Stephen King novel, aired earlier this week, and if you missed it, A&E has made both parts available for free viewing online. Pierce Brosnan stars. Synopsis from StephenKing.com: Several years after his wife’s death, novelist Mike Noonan still suffers writer’s block. A dream inspires… [Continue Reading]
This week is all about Stephen King. In addition to the release of the author’s 11/22/63 and A & E’s sneak peek at the adaptation of BAG OF BONES, another King property, UNDER THE DOME, is moving forward at Showtime, with LOST writer Brian K. Vaughan set to adapt the epic story for Dreamworks, according… [Continue Reading]
The same day that Stephen King’s 11/22/63 was released in bookstores (Check out Famous Monsters’ review here!), A & E updated the official BAG OF BONES Facebook page with brand new stills from the miniseries based on the hit King novel. The plot, as King novels are wont to do, focuses on a Maine author whose… [Continue Reading]
King novels seem to come in two variations. The first is the epic, multi-character sagas that switch points of view constantly and pit the characters against each other, normally toward an apocalyptic conclusion. I’m thinking along the lines of THE STAND, which looked at the feuding survivors of a viral pandemic, and the more recent… [Continue Reading]
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