Which is your favorite: Stephen King adaption?

[Northside]

I voted for The Stand but I might have meant Lawnmower Man.

 

[His Name Is Frank]

I voted for The Stand but I might have meant Lawnmower Man.

There's gotta be a loophole of some sorts to allow me to give you a warning for the above statement.

 

[manic_panic]

thank you so much for making us able to pick more than one. sidenote: both creepshows are badass... AVOID THE THIRD ONE, its not by the same people!!! it;'s by a bunch of hacks, and it will blow your mind (not in the fun way either). do yourseve a favor please... lol... anyway... peace

 

[His Name Is Frank]

I second that about Creepshow 3. I watched it on YouTube. It was absolute garbage. Boring as fuck and as hardcore as an episode of M*A*S*H.

 

[eon_blue]

There's gotta be a loophole of some sorts to allow me to give you a warning for the above statement.

lol, seriously..."The Stand" film adaptation was more of a comedy, it was that bad.

 

[His Name Is Frank]

The Stand movie was ok. I was just in awe that his post seemed to indicate that he confused The Stand with The Lawnmower Man. In which case, a firing squad seems to be in order.

 

[noone1]

Your missing Kingdom hospital from the list.

For reals the Shawshank redemption of course. Pet cemetary is up there though just for Fred Gwynnes performance.

Worse but would vote as top for teh lulz is Maximum Overdrive... oh Stephen King. You made a terrible B movie with AC/DC and you managed to blind a guy while doing it. It kind of dissapoints me because the experience made king never want to direct his own movies again.

I look forward to The Dark Tower and The talisman cause they are two of my most favorite King stories, I know they will in all likely hood be terrible films though. I kind of hope they keep pushing the dates back and they never get made.

 

[Northside]

The Stand movie was ok. I was just in awe that his post seemed to indicate that he confused The Stand with The Lawnmower Man. In which case, a firing squad seems to be in order.

NO no no, I don't confuse the two. I automatically voted for the Stand because I do enjoy it and have seen it many times. I enjoyed Lawnmower Man more but I'd already voted. And I'm a girl, not a guy.( I have edited my "about me" to reflect it , because I was mistaken for a guy more than once)

 

[His Name Is Frank]

Your missing Kingdom Hospital from the list.

Kingdom Hospital isn't a Stephen King adaption. It's a re-make of a Danish mini-series called Riget, written by Lars Von Trier. I did notice that I left off IT, so thanks for having me go over the list. I'm adding it now, if anyone wants to change their vote.

NO no no, I don't confuse the two. I automatically voted for the Stand because I do enjoy it and have seen it many times. I enjoyed Lawnmower Man more but I'd already voted. And I'm a girl, not a guy.( I have edited my "about me" to reflect it , because I was mistaken for a guy more than once)

Sorry for the gender error. I left Lawnmower Man off because the movie had nothing to do with Stephen King's short story. If you haven't read the short story, I posted a synopsis below.

In Stephen King's short story, Harold Parkette hires "Pastoral Greenery and Outdoor Services Inc." to cut his lawn. Yet a mystery surrounding the service is that no one has ever seen the person who owns and operates the enterprise. Parkette decides to find out the identity of the mysterious lawnmower man. In the earliest hours of morning he discovers the strange and horrible truth. The serviceman is not a service "man" at all but a strange inter-dimensional being that takes the form of a symbiotic organism, a machine that mows the lawn by itself while a strange naked man follows behind the mower, eating the grass. The serviceman has the appearance of a satyr who works for the Greek god Pan. The event is terrifying and beyond the comprehension and intellect of Parkette. In a panic he tries to call the police, but it is too late, the mower and its human slave violently turn on him.

 

[L2R]

Dave Kajganich, the scribe adapting Stephen King's "It" for the big screen, tells Dread Central that you can expect this to stay true to the book.

Kajganich explains that the film "will not be PG-13. This will be R, [it] means we can really honor the book and engage with the traumas (both the paranormal ones and those they deal with at home and school) that these character endure."

He also adds that the film will be "set in the mid-1980s and in the present almost equally — mirroring the twenty-odd-year gap King uses in the book." How he plans to compress King's 1,100 page opus into a two-hour film though is anyone's guess.

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/13770/stephen-king-s-it-to-be-r-rated/

 

[noone1]

I wonder if they'll keep the scene from the book where all the boys gangbang the girl to regain their mystical bond.

Yes King we get it you where on serious drugs when you wrote It, did you really have to include a preteen gangbang?

If they keep the metaphysical darktower connected original ending i'll be really surprised as well.

 

[manic_panic]

wow...excellent fucking thread...mad props to OP...the creepshows (please avoid the 3rd one, made by a buncha hacks, its worst shit ever) , pet sematary...stand by me..misery.. i'll have to get back to ya.. so many..dangg once again Badass Thread

 

[L2R]

they might make the long walk!!!!!

Speaking at the 35th Annual Saturn Awards, director Frank Darabont ("The Mist," "The Shawshank Redemption") tells STYD that his film adaptation of "Fahrenheit 451" remains a high priority for him.

"That's been a bit of a struggle. Hollywood doesn't trust smart material... I actually had a studio head read that script and say: "Wow, that's the best and smartest script that I've read since running this studio but I can't possibly greenlight it." I asked why and he says "How am I going to get 13-year-olds to show up at the theater?"."

What about an adaptation of Stephen King's "The Long Walk"? "'It's going to be coming up I think pretty shortly. But I'll be making it, I'm sure, even more cheaply than "The Mist" because I don't want to blow the material out of proportion. It's such a very simple, weird, almost art film-like approach to telling a story" says Darabont.

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/14502/darabont-talks-fahrenheit-451-film