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Adaptations of King’s work are very much a mixed bag: at times it feels like the master horror writer is a little too happy to allow film-makers access to his source without checking their actual credentials. But of course, the same open agenda has also gifted cinema fans the likes of The Shawshank Redemption and The Shining, so it’s not all bad.
Somewhat inevitably, given how many novels and short stories King has published, there are a considerable number of works currently considered “in development”. Some have been frozen in that status for some time, and may never actually see release, while others – like The Stand – seem to climb the progress bar every now and then before dropping off the radar entirely again.
Others are far more concrete and will hit both the silver screen and the small one in the next couple of years, giving the...
Adaptations of King’s work are very much a mixed bag: at times it feels like the master horror writer is a little too happy to allow film-makers access to his source without checking their actual credentials. But of course, the same open agenda has also gifted cinema fans the likes of The Shawshank Redemption and The Shining, so it’s not all bad.
Somewhat inevitably, given how many novels and short stories King has published, there are a considerable number of works currently considered “in development”. Some have been frozen in that status for some time, and may never actually see release, while others – like The Stand – seem to climb the progress bar every now and then before dropping off the radar entirely again.
Others are far more concrete and will hit both the silver screen and the small one in the next couple of years, giving the...
- 4/14/2015
- by Simon Gallagher
- Obsessed with Film
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