Stephen King adaptations

>>82198181
>>The Mist (2017)
Why? We already have the Frank Darabont film.

Langoliers > rest

>>82199382
Apparently, it's not even going to have monsters. The Mist just makes you go crazy.

>>82199691
That sounds lame. Didn't the original short story have monsters?

>>82199752
You could find an answer faster than it took to make your inane post.

>>82199827
Damn, no need to be a dick. Anyway, I looked it up and it turns out the short story did have monsters. So the TV series is gonna be The Mist in name only. Bravo Hollywood.

Salems Lot is my favourite King book. I dont know if they tried to option it as a film during the vampire craze.

Insomnia could make a great movie. I wouldnt mind another adaption of The Running Man which sticks closer to the open manhunt concept of the book.

Favourite King movie is Carrie. Christine is comfy.

>>82199646
langoliers is pure tv movie kino

>>82200013
>Salems Lot is my favourite King book. I dont know if they tried to option it as a film during the vampire craze.
Well, in the early 2000s they did another TV miniseries adaptation. I have no idea if it's any good. Check out the 1979 TV miniseries if you haven't already, it's pretty good.
>I wouldnt mind another adaption of The Running Man which sticks closer to the open manhunt concept of the book.
Yeah, the Arnie film is a lot of fun but it's nothing like the book.
>Favourite King movie is Carrie. Christine is comfy.
Both are fantastic. My favorite King movie is The Shining.

isn't The Jaunt supposed to be getting an adaption or was that binned

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>>82198181
>Gerald's Game (2017)
Really?? who has been picked to play as whats her face? Hopefully pic related

>>82199646
>>82200097
That miniseries scared the shit out of me when I was a kid. I'm sure the CGI has aged badly but what about the rest of it? Should I re-watch it?

>>82199646
I did enjoy the short story. Interesting way to look at time and such

>>82200252
Just looked it up
>Carla Gugino as Jessie Burlingame, Gerald’s wife

Decent casting, Carla isn't as hot as MEW but she's bangable.

>>82200370
oh ok. could be worse

Anyone here seen The Dead Zone adaptation? I thought it was pretty damn creepy and well done (although the book is better).

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>>82200314

>>82200148
>My favorite King movie is The Shining.

I read the book recently and i can understand why Kubrick changed or left out some things. That being said, i became more attatched to the characters in the book than in the film. That made some of the more outlandish elements palatable. I think that is Kings strenght; he could have a washing machine come to life and still make you empathise with the characters and their situation.

>>82200491
Yeah, I figured the CGI would look laughable nowadays. What about the other stuff though? Is the acting any good?

>>82200314
i haven't watched in a very long time but other than the ridiculous cgi i thought it was comfy

>>82199382
Why did that retard change the ending? Somebody in front of me chuckled when the army showed up 10 seconds later.

What if they made a Gunslinger series which cut back and forth between his younger years and the search for The Man In Black.

Id love for them to make a Lonesome Dover type mini series.

>>82200532
Acting is 100% shit but it's still great

>>82200706

I hate how King said he wished he thought of that ending when he was writing it.

Its not first stupid thing hes said though.

>>82200706
I don't know, go find some Frank Darabont interviews. I would guess he changed it because the original ending was a lot less climactic and memorable. This kinda thing happens all the time when a book is adapted to film. Fight Club is another instance where the ending to the film is a lot bigger than the ending to the book.

>>82201251
>original ending was a lot less climactic and memorable.
Everyone who's brought up the movie either thinks the endings is too edgy or too stupid. It wasn't until I got on the internet that people pretended Frank Darabont isn't a hack.

I'm looking forward to a sewer gangbang

King is a fantastic writer when he sticks to mundane things. He seems to shit the bed in the third act though... mostly because I think he REALLY really wants to Lovecraft and starts introducing AYYYLMAOs, old gods, and the like.

>>82201622

Id say its because he spends over 3/4s of the novels developing the characters and then rushes to the end.

>>82201331
I've never had a problem with the ending. Although I haven't watched The Mist since 2008.

>>82201441
This.

>>82201622
>>82201709
Misery and Carrie have great endings though.

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11.22.63

sadie

enough said

>>82200190
I have no idea, the last time we got any word on that was 2015.

>>82198181
the only one im consterned is tdt
p much a new retake so all the saga of blaine the train and the cibertronic bear ditched

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stephen king is a hack fraud who is only known because of the stanley kubrick films

maximum overdrive was laughable

it is quiet obvious that he is not as smart as he attempts to be

hes like a worse george lucas

>>82202101

Misery was great, but, again it was all about mundane horror. There were no spoops just a acrazy bitch.

>>82203136
>stephen king is a hack fraud who is only known because of the stanley kubrick films
This is objectively wrong, Stephen King was a massive success long before Stanley Kubrick adapted The Shining.

>>82203531
the only people who would read his crap were soccer moms

why is king so fucking shit at writing endings to his novels? they all literally end with an asspull or with nothing happening

short stories are awesome though

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>>82203612
I didn't know soccer moms were into fantasy epics.

>>82203708
>why is king so fucking shit at writing endings to his novels?
Every time I ask people to explain what is wrong with the ending of IT they refuse to answer.

>>82200500
i did empathize witht the washing machine in that one too

>>82201622
id say his ayyylmasos are the best in any book i really like tommyknockers the idea of caveman aliens is classic

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>Stephen King was a massive success long before Stanley Kubrick adapted The Shining.
>posts an example that literally rides on the kubrick movie

>>82203136
I'm pretty sure King has been well known ever since 1975. Salem's Lot, The Shining, The Stand and The Dead Zone were all big hits, Brian De Palma's film adaptation of Carrie was also a big hit.

>no IT series with ?? episodes

How many ~55 minute episodes would you need to turn the entire IT novel into a TV series?

>>82203993
>>posts an example that literally rides on the kubrick movie
What? How the hell does The Stand ride on Kubrick's adaptation of The Shining? The Stand came out in 1978 and was a best seller long before 1980.

>>82198181
I think the Stand is their endgame.
Every talk of adaptation has had huge all star casts proposed.

They're going to follow the marvel universe, make a lot of movies until it gains steam, then they have enough money to make a proper Stand movie

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>>82204080
The perfect IT adaptation already exists.

>>82204253
What is this?

>>82204281
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS0hQ2Xp3-0&t

What's worth reading from recent King? I couldn't make it through Duma Key or Lisey's Story since I thought they were pretty boring but I did read both when they first came out so my opinion of them may change on a re-reading. I've heard very good things about the JFK book and Under the Dome.

>>82204350
Wow that was shit. Couldn't hear anything over the music and it relied too much on how creepy the clown looked.

>>82204350
Fucking terrible.

>>82204350
Thanks. I'll watch it when I get home.

>>82204481
>>82204511
If it's so terrible why do we have more likes than dislikes?

>Growing up, always avoided reading King because my mom (who has a similar taste in literature as I) kept saying that his books were "too scary for any sane person to read"
>Assumed this meant they were just gory shlock and that I wouldn't enjoy them
>Start reading It
>The book isn't frightening at all
>It's wonderfully written
>Realistically acting characters and good dialogue

Why the fuck did I listen to my mom. She's also convinced that "Stephen King probably died a long time ago" because "most of his stuff came out in the 70's and 80's, so he's probably long retired or dead" despite him only being thirteen years older than her.

Also, is the older film adaption of It good? Or is it a bit dated?

>>82199646
The Langoliers aged like milk, but it was crazy in a way that was interesting.

>>82204238
the stand won't work without a truly massive budget, an epic like that needs a massive amount to be pulled off without appearing taccy.

>>82198181
Fuck this guy. The sewer scene destroyed any hopes of me having respect in him

>>82204719
It'd be like The Walking Dead moneywise.

>>82204760
You don't like gangbangs? You some kind of faggot? There was a child rape scene in another one of his books.

>>82204865
geralds game is about child molesting necrophelia and bdsm

>Tfw Star Wars, Marvel and Stephen King cinematic universes will all cross over with one another

>Avengers #9000
>Loki is pissed he managed to subjugate or defeat the Avengers for the millionth time, as he's praying to some sort of God to help him he hears cackling of laughter from the shadows and the click of wheels
>Loki : "Who are you?"
> Close up on Flagg's boots as they click against the pavement. Flagg: "Why I'm a better you than you'll ever be"
>End credits

>>82204970
Thanks for reminding me why I don't read his books. I'd watch porn if my intention was to get a raging hard-on.

>>82205002
>> Close up on Flagg's boots as they click against the pavement. Flagg: "Why I'm a better you than you'll ever be"
That was so fucking terrible that you'll probably get a job writing for whatever the next Marvel movie is.

>>82205071
Hello edgelord

>>82205364

Good to know it will make me billions then.

>>82205373
Well I actually thought I was into that shit until I witnessed a certain italian entrée with cheese. I was pretty disgusted tbqh. That shit cured me immediately.

>>82204970
Its also one of the worst King novels. Why its being adapted when there are easily a dozen better choices for King adaptation is beyond me.

so...will knowing the old version of IT and how bad it is ruin my experience with the new version?

>it's a /t(eenyboppers)v/ pretends they've ever read a book in their life episode

Stephen King is the greatest American storyteller of all time.

>>82204627
Half of it is pretty good up to the point where the second half starts, then it goes to the shitter.

>>82205809

>Not Pynchon, Wallace, Mccarthy or Don Delilo

>>82205960

>quickly googling authors you've never read so you sound smart

>>82198181
The Stanley suicide is my favorite use of onomatopoeia.

>>82204393

His anthologies are his best work, IMO. Four Past Midnight, Different Seasons (The Body/Stand By Me, Shawshank and Apt Pupil are from this), Nightmares and Dreamscapes, Everything's Eventual and Full Dark, No Stars are great.

Full length novels, Dr Sleep and Revival are pretty good from his recent stuff. He's pretty much detective shit now, which I don't care for.

>>82205670
What does that mean??

>>82204627
The first half of the It miniseries is pretty good, the second half is heavily flawed but not terrible. I would say it's worth a watch but don't go in with high expectations.

>>82203136
Stfu weeb

>>82204080
Probably 10 episodes. Back in the late 80s George A. Romero wanted to do an 8-10 hour adaptation that would've included nearly everything from the book but the studio got nervous over the length and he eventually walked away from it.

>>82200148
>in the early 2000s they did another TV miniseries adaptation
It's much truer to the book than the Tobe Hooper TV movie. Part of me likes it more, but there are some iconic scenes in the Hooper version, even if it's a sloppier film. I like em both.

>>82200491
The CGI is so bad that its scary.

>>82200486
It's Cronenberg. Course it's great. Probably my favorite of his horror adaptations.

>>82206982
>Apt Pupil
That is an underrated adaptation of his. Liked it a lot.

>>82200190
Holy shit really?
The Jaunt is my favorite Stephen King story.

If anyone has a few minutes you should all read it.

>>82208722
the only story that acctually frightens me so if anyone here finds out im in a coma somewhere with brain acttivity come and blow my brains out

>>82208772
Such a great and incredibly scary concept.
And I really like how effective the story is in making you interested in seeing it yourself so you can imagine having the same idea as the kid.

>>82208722
>>82208772
Yep, just thinking about the punchline is giving me goosebumps.

And I know there was a student film of Suffer the Little Children, of which I've seen a trailer that looked decent.

And some horror anthology TV show did Grandma, another favorite.

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>>82208904
>Yep, just thinking about the punchline is giving me goosebumps.
"It's longer than you think, Dad! Longer than you think!"

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What am I missing?

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>Gerald's Game
They're actually making a movie about some slut being handcuffed to a bed for 99% of the running time?

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>Doctor Sleep might get a film adaptation

>>82198181
>It: Part 2 – Pennywise
THE TURTLE AND IT LANDING ON EARTH CONFIRMED?

>>82209992
>maybe I can be your THICC tonight master

>>82200894
This

Part of being a Stephen King fan is to completely ignore the man himself. He's such a dumb bitch.

>>82210415

I met him once and he was really weird and uncomfortable to talk to. Had him sign my copy of Charlie the Choo Choo.

Anyone else read the Fukunaga IT script?

What the hell was that ending?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNlPCjYn4-k


>>You will never be part of Blue Boy group

>>82209909
>Diary of the Dead
King was involved with that?

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>>82210507
Huh

>>82203136
Judging from your grammar, even his dog Molly is smarter than you, chuck

>>82210346
Is this novel universally regarded as shitty here? I remember it being remarkably shitty.

>>82210616

It is regarded as shitty not only here but in every single multiverse that exists. After that King can dada-choke on my dick.

>>82203993
Carrie was considered a classic of horror like 5 years prior to The Shining
Get your facts straight before you start typing

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>>82208722
Love it, especially the way he digs into just explaining how the world changed in response to the Jaunt (like the husband getting the death sentence for throwing his wife in without an exit).

I also just love when King dips into straight science fiction. There's the one with the astronaut infected by an alien organism that keeps sprouting eyes all across his body. It's pure pulp and great for it.

>>82208722
How long is it?

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>>82209909
Riding the Bullet

>>82204627
The cast is spot on (except Beverly is supposed to be quite pretty and the girl that portrays her is rather plain. Tim Curry as Pennywise is great, althought not as scary as he's supposed to be because the CGI was shit.
The movie itself is average because it was nowhere as scary as the book mainly because it was made for TV which means the scary parts where nowhere to be found

>>82210745
It's like 10-20 pages max. You can probably find it online easily. It's well worth the read.

>>82210750
Wait, how the fuck do you make a movie out of this? The guy has to choose whether he or his mother dying and he spends the rest of his life wrestling with his guilt and cowardice.

How do you get a "spooky" Stephen King adaptation out of that?

>>82198181
How many racial slurs has he taught you?

>>82208265
Also Romero wanted to make The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon but apparently the studios didnt want to make a terror movie where the only 2 characters are a 9 year old girl and Tom Gordon

>>82210845
Honestly I don't remember because I saw it when it came out on DVD (I was like 15)

I just remember thinking it was the worst fucking shit at a time when my mom rent the lowest budget garbage horror movies for me and my dad to watch

>>82200370
What about the young version for the eclipse scene?

>>82198181

WAIT *SMACKS LIPS*

HOL UP

U BE SAYIN

THERE BE 2 IT MOVIES COMIN OUT?

>>82201441
There's a sewer gangbang? What book?

>>82211530
A bunch of 11 year old boys fuck an 11 year old girl. Wonder how high King was.

>>82201331

Darabont's ending fit better, some vaguely optimistic ride into the nonexistent sunset seemed a bit much for the shit they went through.

Plus it gives some disturbing credence to the possibility that the evil religious bitch was actually right in saying that their deaths were needed to satiate God's (or whoever's) demands.

>>82211602
What the fuck? Why was that allowed? What book?

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>>82211640
>What the fuck? Why was that allowed? What book?

>>82200500
I finally read the book after having seen the movie a million times, and I couldn't get on board with it. Kubrick did what he did to make an infinitely better and more compelling story.

>>82200706
To filter out the plebs

>>82198181
The movies have a generally solid track record. It's the tv shows and miniseries that are fucking awful.

>>82211612
I've yet to watch the movie, so I want to give it the benefit of the doubt, but I'm skeptical.

The ending of the novella has them trying to hold on to hope, but the situation is no less bleak. There's a desire to believe not only that the rest of the world has escaped the mist, but that society and the good in people can still live on. The reader is left to decide for himself what the actual answer is.

The ending of the movie just sounds really contrived and melodramatic, but I'm biased and I'd like to give it a watch to see how I like it.

>>82210601
rekt

>>82210804
I've actually read it, I just wanted somebody to answer "longer than you think"

>>82210750
Thanks anon. Haven't seen that.

>>82205960
wew

>>82198181
>>It: Part 1 – The Losers' Club (September 8, 2017)
>>It: Part 2 – Pennywise (2018)
Is this true??

Theyre making 2 movies?

>>82212348
I think so as they did not show them grown up in the trailer.

>>82213189
Which actors would play the grown up versions?
recon any popular actors?

What is the best way to get into Stephen King's books? He has so many it's hard to know where to even start. Only book of his that I've read is the first Dark Tower book.

>>82213351
Go on piratebay and download the IT audiobook read by Steven Weber. Many regard it as the best vocal performance of any book ever.

I loved The Stand and think it would make 3 riveting seasons of television.

Season 1 the spread and collapse. Introduce characters, small groups form. End with the first dream sequence.

Season 2: All of the different groups journey to Boulder or Las Vegas, meeting Mother Abigail and Flagg.

Season 3: Rebuilding society, preparing for war. Our heroes crossing the desert. I'd prefer to rewrite the ending but what can you do.

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>>82203612
>You niggerboogienight-fighterjungle-bunnyapemancoon! Gaaaah, nigger! Gaaaaaaaaaah! Neeeeeeegaaaa! You dirty-fighting nigger!

My soccer mom loved that bit.

>>82213236
>>82213189
>On March 7, 2017, the title of the film was announced byStephen KingasPart 1 – The Losers’ Club

>February 16, 2016, producer Roy Lee, in an interview with Collider.com, mentioned the final film of the plannedItduology, remarking, "[...] making another movie from the point of view of the adults, that could potentially then be cut together like the novel. But it's gonna be a really fun way of making this movie."Lee also mentions that: "[Dauberman] wrote the most recent draft working with [Muschietti], so it's being envisioned as two movies."

Well I'll be baby damned. You're right

Personally think it should've been a 10 Episode show but idk well see.

>>82213441
>I'd prefer to rewrite the ending but what can you do.

What part? The literal Hand of God ending shit or the aftermath?

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>>82213608

Is it just me or does King look like that guy from Hannibal who cut off his own face with broken glass?

>>82204080
Well the audio book is 45 hours long and i can inagibe every second onscreen it would be amazing.

>>82213395
Confirmed. 45 hours of great entertainment. We dont need a shitty 4 hour film adaptation we alresdy have this.

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>>82198181
>The Dark Tower (August 4, 2017)
I'm so fucking excoited. Idris Elba is who I envisioned every time the book described Roland.

>>82213741

The literal Hand of God was the stupidest thing imaginable.

I could handle some religious overtones, but before that everything was more or less grounded in reality.

Basically it was lazy writing because King sucks at writing endings to things.

>>82214237

>Roland, remember the face of your father!
>Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit

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WE WUZ ARTHUR ELD AND SHIEET

>>82214339
>Basically it was lazy writing because King sucks at writing endings to things.

Truer words have never been spoken. I like how his son wrote the end to 11/22/63 because King's actual ending was stupid as shit.

>>82213395
>>82214117
This. I'm on ch 19 right now. Shits getting tense with Henry and his knife.

Actor is really good

>>82199646
That was a shit story

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Will it be good? The trailer seems to be hitting all the right notes but its troubled development has me worried.

Cary Fukunaga made it sound like WB wanted some safe spooky clown fest that doesn't make the normies' heads hurt. Will it even get into the turtle stuff?

>>82200314
the way the characters are handled is kind of limp-wristed and shitty, but consistently so, so you have to bring up context and comparison in your head to really grasp how shitty it's being at any given moment
also they really try to make stillness creepy, and in real life it can be, but in a movie you can't have stillness for too long, and was it does get still and quiet it doesn't feel as creepy as it could because you know there are people there and you know it's a movie and you likely even have people near you in the next house over and outside noise and so on

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>>82214642
>Will it be good?
Oh yes

>>82204865
>There was a child rape scene in another one of his books.
I'm gonna take one for the team and say: which one?

>>82198181
>ctrl+f "cell"
>nothing
you guys all have shit taste. cell might just be his magnum opus, it's not full of corny bullshit, and it's compelling and fresh.

>>82214885
Isn't about a cellphone that kills people? Yea, real fucking scary.

>>82208904
>Suffer the Little Children
mah nigga

>>82200013
I continually forget that The Running Man was originally a story written by King.

>>82214808
Oh damn, are they actually showing George's mangled corpse with the bone of his armless body poking out?

>>82198181

> Talk AT LENGTH about your ire for an adaptation made by one of the most celebrated directors of all time.
> Write the tv miniseries.

Does cocaine warp your mind?

>>82203718
What's the deal with that cover? Ever since I was a kid, I've wondered what was going on there, and I started reading it recently, and have so far encountered nothing that suggests what's on the cover. Or is it some kind of general "good vs evil" visual metaphor?

>>82214903
That's not even almost what it's about. Not even close. Go read a book you pleb.

>>82204238
I kind of figured that The Dark Tower would be the endgame of a SKCU. King himself considers it his magnum opus.

>>82214868
The Library Policeman in Four Past Midnight. It's four or five pages of a boy getting anally raped in brutal detail. Some real depraved shit. I think King must have been sexually abused as a child.

>>82215027
good vs. evil on a historic scale
the bird-like appearance of the black figure ties into the story slightly, a crow is present (possibly Flagg in disguise) when the plague is released
the black figure is holding a scythe, a common symbol of death, which is where most of the horror in the book comes from, directly or indirectly

>>82198181
>There has also been a lot of talk of doing a film adaptation of The Stand

Who would you cast?

Hard to imagine Stu as anyone but Gary Sinise.

>>82214914
And now thinking of *that* punchline is giving me goosebumps.

I know there have been shorts made of The Boogeyman, Strawberry Spring, Rainy Season. I've seen the first two and they weren't very good, and I have my doubts that the third won't be great...