Browsing: Stephen King

Remember when Amazon purchased a very substantial set of literary IP to develop into series and such? We remember, and…

The long awaited film adaptation of Stephen King’s “Doctor Sleep” (the sequel to the classic “The Shining“) is a really pretty solid flick for what it is. It should be expressed, however, that what this represents isn’t another horrific delving into a psychological breakdown, but rather a somewhat more adventure-based thriller with aspects of horror […]

The Losers Club is back in the brand-new trailer for Warner Bros. Pictures upcoming sequel to “IT,” “IT: Chapter 2.” (Even though Warner Bros. isn’t attending San Diego Comic-Con this year- they wanted to make their presence felt in other ways- like releasing a trailer.) The film stars James McAvoy (“X-Men,” “Split”) as Bill, Jessica Chastain (“The Martian,” “Interstellar”) as […]

There are few films with the reputation that comes with Stanley Kubrick‘s seminal adaptation of Stephen King‘s novel “The Shining”. Imagine everyone’s surprise when almost 40 years later, Warner Bros. Pictures releases a film based on the sequel novel, “Doctor Sleep”. Mike Flanagan (Oculus, Ouija: Origin Of Evil) is directing the picture, and is no stranger to the […]

Sounds like Game of Thrones’ Ser Bronn (Jerome Flynn) is heading to another notable fantasy book series-turned tv show, as he’s reportedly been cast in Amazon Studio’s The Dark Tower (which will have NOTHING TO DO with the Idris Elba 2017 film). In a recent chat with the UK’s Mirror, Flynn revealed he’d been cast in the series […]

Looks like that upcoming JJ Abrams-produced Apple series based on Stephen King’s 2006 horror-romance best-seller Lisey’s Story just found their star- Oscar winner Julianne Moore. Described as a “deeply personal thriller that follows Lisey (Moore) two years following the death of her husband”, the series explores “a series of events that causes her to begin facing amazing […]

Every year it seems we’re faced with the premise that some studio is going to drop an adaptation of one or more of Stephen King’s stories. This time it’s back to a new version of his 1983 novel Pet Sematary with a script by authors Jeff Buhler (Nightflyers) and David Kajganich (Suspiria) from a story by […]

Today in “sequels no one wanted” news, we’re apparently getting a The Shining followup film based on “Dr. Sleep” and Ewan McGregor will be playing grownup Danny. Variety broke the ‘news’ just a little bit ago that Warner Bros. has been planning to adapt the Stephen King book “Dr. Sleep”, the novel-sequel to “The Shining”, into a film […]

Maybe you didn’t know (I didn’t) that The Tommyknockers is Stephen King’s second best selling work in his career thus far. Considering how many mini series and films there have been of his lesser selling stories, this is surprising, because as it stands, we’ve only gotten one version of ‘Tommyknockers’ thus far. That’s gonna change, as today veteran […]

Well, it’s only taken nearly three decades for the bad taste of one of Stephen King’s worst film adaptations to fade. While Pet Sematary remains one of King’s great underappreciated novels, its original 1989 film entirely excised vast chunks of the book — unfortunately, they were the parts that contained the connective threads. Variety is […]