Stephen King adaptations

Discuss old adaptations and upcoming adaptations.

Upcoming film adaptations:
>It: Part 1 – The Losers' Club (September 8, 2017)
>It: Part 2 – Pennywise (2018)
>The Dark Tower (August 4, 2017)
>Gerald's Game (2017)
>Firestarter (TBA)

Upcoming TV series adaptations:
>Mr. Mercedes (2017)
>The Mist (2017)
>Castle Rock (TBA)

There has also been a lot of talk of doing a film adaptation of The Stand but all of that talk has so far lead nowhere.

Are you looking forward to any of the upcoming adaptations, Sup Forums? Gerald's Game will probably be good since it's being directed by Mike Flanagan.

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

Langoliers > rest

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

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

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

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.

langoliers is pure tv movie kino

>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

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

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?

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

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.

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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>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.

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

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

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.

Acting is 100% shit but it's still great

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.

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.

>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.

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

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

This.

Misery and Carrie have great endings though.

11.22.63

sadie

enough said

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

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

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

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

>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.

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

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

>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.

i did empathize witht the washing machine in that one too

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

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

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?

>>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.

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

The perfect IT adaptation already exists.

What is this?

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.

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

Fucking terrible.

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

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?

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

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.

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

It'd be like The Walking Dead moneywise.

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

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

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.

>> 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.

Hello edgelord

Good to know it will make me billions then.

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.

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.

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

>Not Pynchon, Wallace, Mccarthy or Don Delilo

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

The Stanley suicide is my favorite use of onomatopoeia.

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.

What does that mean??

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.

Stfu weeb

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.

>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.

The CGI is so bad that its scary.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

What am I missing?

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

>Doctor Sleep might get a film adaptation

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

>maybe I can be your THICC tonight master

This

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

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?