If you're a Stephen King fan, io9 recently posted this video of him reading a full chapter of his upcoming book Doctor Sleep, his upcoming sequel to The Shining:
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Monday, August 15, 2011
And who knows what movie tickets might cost by the time they're finished?
HitFix reported last week that Warner Bros. has nearly finalized a deal that would have David Yates (the director of the last four Harry Potter movies) and Steve Kloves (the screenwriter for all but one of them) re-team up to create a multi-movie version of Stephen King's The Stand.
While this is the kind of movie I might ordinarily see, I'm not sure I can face the prospect of waiting multiple years and shelling out 20 or 30+ dollars to finish it.
Labels: Movie Adaptations, Stephen King
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posted by Yulianka at 10:54 AM
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Monday, April 04, 2011
Nostalgia with a dollop of gore
A new musical from singer John Mellencamp and horror writer Stephen King will make its world debut next year at the Alliance Theater in Atlanta. Ghost Brothers of Darkland County is described as a "riveting Southern gothic musical", and is based on the real 1957 deaths of two brothers and a young girl. Mellencamp will handle the score, King will write the story, and legendary producer T-Bone Burnett will be the music director. Here's the plot description:"In the tiny town of Lake Belle Reve, Mississippi in 1957, a terrible tragedy took the lives of two brothers and a beautiful young girl. During the next forty years, the events of that night became the stuff of local legend. But legend is often just another word for lie. Joe McCandless knows what really happened; he saw it all. The question is whether or not he can bring himself to tell the truth in time to save his own troubled sons, and whether the ghosts left behind by an act of violence will help him – or tear the McCandless family apart forever."Not my kind of thing, but the combination of Americana, sentiment, and horror sounds like it will be right up King's alley. I'm picturing The Shining blended with Stand By Me, with maybe a little Dolores Claiborne thrown in.
Labels: music, Stephen King, Theater
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posted by Yulianka at 2:49 PM
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Monday, December 14, 2009
Well played, Mr. (and Mrs.) King.
In a classy move, Stephen King and wife Tabitha have apparently donated $13,000 (well, $12,999--they worried about the unlucky "13") to allow 150 soldiers from the Maine Army National Guard to travel home by bus from Camp Atterbury in Indiana to Maine for the holidays. The soldiers are due to ship out to Afghanistan in January, so I'm sure this trip home will really mean a lot to them.Labels: Stephen King
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Stephen King takes over the airwaves... again.
Yet another Stephen King book will be hitting the small screen--in this case, his novella The Colorado Kid is being turned into an hourlong TV series called Haven.According to Variety, "the project centers on a spooky town in Maine where cursed folk live normal lives in exile. When those curses start returning, FBI agent Audrey Parker is brought in to keep those supernatural forces at bay--while trying to unravel the mysteries of Haven."
That actually sounds pretty fun. King's had some mixed results with TV adaptations in the past, but I might check this out.
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