The Stephen King Thread

[campermon]

[Coastal]

I've said it a hundred times, I'll say it again: his special skill is building characters and places. Within a page or two you KNOW that character.

I feel like I've actually BEEN to New England.

We never visited NE when we were in the US, but for all intents and purposes, I've been there.

[Fallible]

Yep. He was never 'just' a horror writer; he's far more rounded, and actually I don't think a lot of his books could be properly classified as horrors.

[Coastal]

True. I think I have a more active imagination than he has. If I could give him the ideas and he wrote it, we would be majestic.

[Fallible]

[Crocodile Gandhi]

Agree with the couple of posts above. I read 'It' a few years back and i didn't really care for the horror elements. I kept reading because I loved everything about the kids playing together in the woods. Reminded me of my childhood.

[laklak]

I knew everything in Oz tries to kill you, but I didn't realize you had killer clown spiders in the storm drains.

[Doubtdispelled]

I knew everything in Oz tries to kill you, but I didn't realize you had killer clown spiders in the storm drains.

You seem to be a tad confused, Lak.

[laklak]

What's unusual about that?

[Doubtdispelled]

What's unusual about that?

Goes with the territory, I s'pose.

[laklak]

I'm no spring chicken, I'll have you know!

[Pulsar]

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/02/29/dark-tower-rises-stephen-king-idris-elba-and-matthew-mcconaughey?xid=entertainment-weekly_socialflow_twitter

Stephen King Confirms Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey Will Star In 'The Dark Tower'

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 man in black.

Nikolaj Arcel, who is best known for the 2012 Danish film A Royal Affair and for co-writing the Swedish version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, says he will start shooting The Dark Tower in South Africa in seven weeks, and Sony Pictures plans to have it in theaters on Jan. 13, 2017.

But this first film will not adapt the plot of the first book, The Gunslinger, published in 1982. “[The movie] starts in media res, in the middle of the story instead of at the beginning, which may upset some of the fans a little bit, but they’ll get behind it, because it is the story,” King says.

Arcel declined to specify which books his movie focus on, but he did offer this clue: “A lot of it takes place in our day, in the modern world.”

(continues)

I have a bad feeling about this...

[Doubtdispelled]

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/02/29/dark-tower-rises-stephen-king-idris-elba-and-matthew-mcconaughey?xid=entertainment-weekly_socialflow_twitter

Stephen King Confirms Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey Will Star In 'The Dark Tower'

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 man in black.

Nikolaj Arcel, who is best known for the 2012 Danish film A Royal Affair and for co-writing the Swedish version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, says he will start shooting The Dark Tower in South Africa in seven weeks, and Sony Pictures plans to have it in theaters on Jan. 13, 2017.

But this first film will not adapt the plot of the first book, The Gunslinger, published in 1982. “[The movie] starts in media res, in the middle of the story instead of at the beginning, which may upset some of the fans a little bit, but they’ll get behind it, because it is the story,” King says.

Arcel declined to specify which books his movie focus on, but he did offer this clue: “A lot of it takes place in our day, in the modern world.”

(continues)

I have a bad feeling about this...

Yeah. I think I'd rather just remember it all as it was in the beginning.... There are other worlds than these.....

[Fallible]

Matthew McFuckingConaughey??? Still, reading that series turned into one of the most soul destroying experiences of my entire life to date, so...

[laklak]

I don't know whether to be deliriously happy or completely terrified. Felt the same way about Lord of the Rings, though, and that turned out all right. They'll have to eviscerate the story to fit it into one movie, unless they intend to pull a Peter Jackson Hobbit move on it.

[Doubtdispelled]

I'm no spring chicken, I'll have you know!

Just because you're old, Lak, doesn't mean you have the automatic right to behave as though ga-ga is the only way to go.

[Fallible]

I don't know whether to be deliriously happy or completely terrified. Felt the same way about Lord of the Rings, though, and that turned out all right. They'll have to eviscerate the story to fit it into one movie, unless they intend to pull a Peter Jackson Hobbit move on it.

I reckon starting in the middle basically means that the beginnings of the story will never be told. Now The Gunslinger was my least favourite book from the series but still. This situation does not pander to every whim of my demanding, anal personality and that should be of utmost importance to everyone.

[Doubtdispelled]

This situation does not pander to every whim of my demanding, anal personality and that should be of utmost importance to everyone.

Whut?

[aliihsanasl]

They canceled The Talisman project and now shooting The Dark Tower how nice, The Talisman is my favourite novel and the first book I read. For months I checked the progress on IMDB then learned cancellation and now this, a much more expensive project.

I didn't read the whole article but they can't fit it to one movie, it has to be a mini series like other King adaptations, 6 hours or something.

[laklak]

I'm no spring chicken, I'll have you know!

Just because you're old, Lak, doesn't mean you have the automatic right to behave as though ga-ga is the only way to go.

Are you talking about that funny singer woman? Dame Ga Ga, something like that?

I only listen to Lawrence Welk, I do love a good polka.