Browsing: Stephen King

Stephen King continues to have a bumper year, with no less than four films based on his stories coming out in 2017 alone. Now Variety is reporting that another property is being queued up over at Paramount to come back out of the grave for another go-around: Pet Sematary. The directing duo of Dennis Widmyer and […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Stephen King’s properties are again making the rounds as tentpole film events — just a few months ago we had The Dark Tower, and now we have another of his literary classics, It, taking the jump to the big screen. Originally published back in ’86 and widely celebrated at the time, this new […]

The time is getting closer to the September 8th opening of It, the reboot film based on Stephen King’s novel from relative newcomer director Andrés Muschietti (his only real prior feature credit was from the 2013 horror film, 2013). How the adaptation works out remains to be seen but the marketing machine continues to roll along […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] To start off with, yes, I read books — I just haven’t happened to have read any of the nine Stephen King novels which make up his self-described “magnum opus”, The Dark Tower. So in this case, it’s one of those occasions without any particular background perspective beyond what I’ve seen in the […]

Fans of Stephen King have always been highly polarized on film adaptations of his novels, and The Dark Tower looks to follow in that proud tradition.  Referred to by King as his “opus”, the 8 book series was originally published in 1982, and has even been done in comic form. The film got a rough start, […]

Fans of Stephen King are no strangers to his books being adapted into feature films.  Good or bad, the big screen versions of his paperback stories have usually netted pretty good box office returns, and Sony is hoping to cash in on the next film, The Dark Tower. A new almost 2 minute long featurette was released […]

We’ve previously written about the various properties inspired by the horror master-scribe Stephen King that are coming out this year, including the eagerly awaited film adaptations of The Dark Tower, It, and Gerald’s Game, and Spike TV’s The Mist (which we’re not really sure if anyone was asking to be remade after the 2007 theatrical version). Now we’ve […]

During this evening’s MTV Film and Television Awards, a new trailer for the film adaptation of Stephen King’s It hit the airwaves. With creepy clowns and being one of King’s better novels in recent years we’d been all in, especially after the first trailer hit a few months ago. Actually titled It: Part 1 – The […]

Anthology format series seem to be coming back into vogue once again, with news coming out this evening that J. J. Abrams’ Bad Robot and horror author Stephen King have teamed up to produce another new show for Hulu, Castle Rock. Castle Rock is the setting for a range of King’s books, including The Dead Zone, Cujo, […]

A new poster has arrived ahead of the upcoming adaptation of the long-running Stephen King saga, The Dark Tower. The poster shows frontiersman Roland Deschain (played by Idris Elba) and Jake Chambers (Tom Taylor) striding forward with the welcome and blessing found in the books – May your days be long upon the earth.