Which is your favorite: Stephen King adaption?

[junctionalfunkie]

^ It's actually "Heeeeeeere's Johnny!" Like the old Tonight Show.

 

[His Name Is Frank]

I remember hearing that had been adapted! Would love to see it, it's such an awesome little story.

What other stories did they adapt for that one?

P.S Is there a Dark Tower film possibility in the works?

I bought the DVD with 3 discs.

Disc 1:
Battleground
Crouch End
Umney's Last Case

Disc 2:
The End of the Whole Mess (2nd best episode, in my opinion)
The Road Virus Heads North
The Fifth Quarter

Disc 3:
Autopsy Room Four
You Know They Got A Hell of a Band

Still no word on The Dark Tower being made. (which as I've said before, if they are going to make it HBO is the only realistic route)

However, they are finally making The Talisman into a mini-series. It's already in production. Not sure which network, but probably TNT.


Also announced or in the process of being made:
Dolan's Cadillac
Cell
Bag of Bones
From a Buick 8
Creepshow (remake with new stories)
Children of the Corn (remake for tv.......God only knows why this is being made)

 

[smotpoker]

Damn I wish I would've known you could for more than one before I voted. Oh well guess I need to read it better.

So many good films on that list, I'd have to go with Creepshow, simply because I've seen it the most out of all of them so I guess that's my fav?

And although not really adapted from King, I will come out and say "Creepshow 2" is way underrated. If anyone here has seen it I hope they would agree that the 2 stories in Creep2, "The Raft" and "The Hitchhiker" are some pretty entertaining stuff!

 

[junctionalfunkie]

Also announced or in the process of being made:
Dolan's Cadillac
Cell

Cell was a fucked-up story.

Dolan's Cadillac was very short. Dunno how they'll stretch it into a full-length film.

They should make a movie of Survivor Type. Autocannibalism + Heroin = Pure Win.

 

[Belisarius]

Creepshow 2 is great: incidentally, the two mentioned are also my favorites.

Cell would be a natural big-screen adaptation. One story that I think would be very good--but probably unfilmable--is the excellent novella "The Library Policeman". "Everything's Eventual" is another possibility.

 

[junctionalfunkie]

A King story (actually a Richard Bachman story, King's pseudonym) that I'm surprised has never been adapted into film, and could be quite a good drama in the right director's hands, is the short novel Rage.

And one of King's most subtly horrifying short stories has to be That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French, but that would be very difficult to translate into a film.

edit: perusing Wiki reveals why Rage will never see celluloid (or even a reprint): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rage_(novel)

 

[psycosynthesis]

^Rage is one of my all-time favourite stories of his, it would make a good, suspenseful film. Although I imagine the characters would be altered to make it seem more contemporary.

 

[mariacallas]

OMG how could I forget Carrie HOW COULD I? I must have been half asleep when I posted in this thread! Carrie gets my vote...i fuckin love this movie!

should've killed myself when he put it in me. After the first time, before we were married, Ralph promised never again. He promised, and I believed him. But sin never dies. Sin never dies. At first, it was all right. We lived sinlessly. We slept in the same bed, but we never did it. And then, that night, I saw him looking down at me that way. We got down on our knees to pray for strength. I smelled the whiskey on his breath. Then he took me. He took me, with the stink of filthy roadhouse whiskey on his breath, and I liked it. I liked it! With all that dirty touching of his hands all over me. I should've given you to God when you were born, but I was weak and backsliding, and now the devil has come home. We'll pray.

The scenes with Margaret White were so disturbing I was promptly chastened for a day or two after viewing

 

[GreenEyedGirrrL]

dolores claiborne

 

[lostpunk5545]

Very hard question but The Shining TV miniseries was brilliant. Kubrick fucking slaughtered that novel in his adaption. I really have no idea why everyone loves it so much.

I really, really, enjoy Rose Red as well.

 

[lostpunk5545]

A King story (actually a Richard Bachman story, King's pseudonym) that I'm surprised has never been adapted into film, and could be quite a good drama in the right director's hands, is the short novel Rage.

Whilst Rage would make a brilliant film I don't think King would agree to it seeing as the novel is voluntarily (at King's discretion) out of print now following the Columbine massacre.

 

[junctionalfunkie]

^ Yeah, I posted a link to wiki's article explaining that...

It was actually a school shooting before Columbine that made him remove it from further publication.

 

[ccm]

Great movie, but Stephen King hated Jack Nicholson in the leading role. He said the character was meant to start out normal and slowly degrade into madness. He thought Jack Nicholson looked crazy as batshit from the first frame. The man has a point. Great movie though.


"Wendy? Darling? Light of my life?! I'm not going to hurt you. I'm just going to bash your goddamn brains in!"

Two minutes into the movie and he already looks ready to kill them both.

Quite an interesting bit of trivia! I had not heard that King hated Jack in the role!

IMO they used Jack as such to foreshadow. You learn that Jack N. has a temper problem (breaking his kids arm) and is just not quite wired right. I believe that was quite deliberate on the filmmakers part. Say they used Tom Hanks for the part. It would not work. Or Colin Farrell. I think Jack was perfect for the role and his slow descent into madness was genius. The moviegoer knew from the start that something was going to go wrong, particularly with Jack's temper and alcoholism. I would not find Hanks descent into madness very believable. I thought Steven Weber did a decent job in the remake by the way. What say you?

 

[ccm]

OMG how could I forget Carrie HOW COULD I? I must have been half asleep when I posted in this thread! Carrie gets my vote...i fuckin love this movie!

should've killed myself when he put it in me. After the first time, before we were married, Ralph promised never again. He promised, and I believed him. But sin never dies. Sin never dies. At first, it was all right. We lived sinlessly. We slept in the same bed, but we never did it. And then, that night, I saw him looking down at me that way. We got down on our knees to pray for strength. I smelled the whiskey on his breath. Then he took me. He took me, with the stink of filthy roadhouse whiskey on his breath, and I liked it. I liked it! With all that dirty touching of his hands all over me. I should've given you to God when you were born, but I was weak and backsliding, and now the devil has come home. We'll pray.

The scenes with Margaret White were so disturbing I was promptly chastened for a day or two after viewing

And watch out for those dirty pillows you slut!!! (lol)

 

[ccm]

I thought the Stand was pretty good. I loved how they played that Blue Oyster Cult song at the first. And then when the unsuccessful rock singer Larry goes to visit his mom and she just cuts to the chase. "How much do you need, Larry?"

Classic!

 

[L O V E L I F E]

With all due respect to Mr. King, even HE isn't quite talented enough to have written The Shawshank Redemption in the once-in-a-lifetime beautiful way it was shown to us in movie form.

Just my opinion.

- LL

 

[AmorRoark]

List the worst Stephen King adaptions and which would you like to see adapted?

Here's the entire list for us lazy folk:

Carrie
Salem's Lot
The Shining (1980)
Creepshow (1982)
Cujo
The Dead Zone
Christine
Children of the Corn (short story from Night Shift)
Firestarter
Cat's Eye (consists of three short films: "Quitters, Inc.," "The Ledge," and "The General", the last of which is original)
Silver Bullet (based on Cycle of the Werewolf)
Maximum Overdrive (based on "Trucks" from Night Shift; directed by King)
Stand By Me (based on "The Body", novella from Different Seasons)
Creepshow 2 (consists of three short films: "Old Chief Wood'n'head," "The Raft," and "The Hitchhiker")
A Return to Salem's Lot (sequel to 'Salem's Lot)
The Running Man (novel written as Richard Bachman)
Pet Sematary
The Cat From Hell (short film that is part of Tales From The Darkside - The Movie) Graveyard Shift (story from Night Shift)
Misery
IT
Sleepwalkers (original screenplay)
The Dark Half
Needful Things
The Lawnmower Man
The Shawshank Redemption (novella "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" from Different Seasons)
The Mangler (story from Night Shift)
Dolores Claiborne
Thinner (novel written as Richard Bachman)
Apt Pupil (novella from Different Seasons)
The Green Mile
The Rage: Carrie 2 (sequel to Carrie)
Hearts in Atlantis (Adapted Low Men In Yellow Coats, the first part)
Dreamcatcher
Secret Window (novella Secret Window, Secret Garden from Four Past Midnight) Riding the Bullet
1408 (based on the short story from Everything's Eventual)
The Mist

 

[AmorRoark]

Hey mods, I did a search after I made this thread and saw there's already a "favorite" Steven King thread. Whoops! 8) Can you just make this about the worst adaptation? Haha, thanks.

 

[Belisarius]

I know a lot of people are going to bring up Maximum Overdrive, whereas I think its camp saves it from complete obliteration. Silver Bullet: now there's a shitty movie, made the worse because the novella is a gem that's one of my all-time favorites.

 

[His Name Is Frank]

Lawnmower Man makes the cut simply because it had absolutely NOTHING to do with the short story.

Now I would love to see The Long Walk, which he wrote as Richard Bachman, made into a movie. In the hands of a greak King director such as Frank Darabont or Ron Howard, this could be a great movie if made in the same vein as Battle Royale and pulled no punches.

For those unfamiliar with the story, it begins with 100 kids, all under the age of 18 who have volunteered and have been selcted for the long walk. The winner's prize is anything he wants in the world. There are a few catches. If a walker falls behind the set pace. After three warnings, he is shot on site. Also, no one is allowed to stop and rest. The walk ends when there is only one kid standing. This is a walk to the death. The story is very intense and heart breaking. I would love to see this made in the hands of the right director.