All Things: STEPHEN KING

More Details On Why Fukunaga Exited ‘It’ Remake Emerge
http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3359996/details-fukunaga-exited-remake-emerge/

Now, Fukunaga explains to Variety in greater detail precisely why he no longer wanted to be a part of the remake:

I was trying to make an unconventional horror film. It didn’t fit into the algorithm of what they knew they could spend and make money back on based on not offending their standard genre audience. Our budget was perfectly fine. …It was the creative that we were really battling. It was two movies. They didn’t care about that. In the first movie, what I was trying to do was an elevated horror film with actual characters. They didn’t want any characters. They wanted archetypes and scares. I wrote the script. They wanted me to make a much more inoffensive, conventional script. But I don’t think you can do proper Stephen King and make it inoffensive.

The main difference was making Pennywise more than just the clown. After 30 years of villains that could read the emotional minds of characters and scare them, trying to find really sadistic and intelligent ways he scares children, and also the children had real lives prior to being scared. And all that character work takes time. It’s a slow build, but it’s worth it, especially by the second film. But definitely even in the first film, it pays off.

We invested years and so much anecdotal storytelling in it. Chase and I both put our childhood in that story. So our biggest fear was they were going to take our script and bastardize it. So I’m actually thankful that they are going to rewrite the script. I wouldn’t want them to stealing our childhood memories and using that. I mean, I’m not sure if the fans would have liked what I would had done. I was honoring King’s spirit of it, but I needed to update it. King saw an earlier draft and liked it.
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REPORT: Idris Elba Frontrunner for Lead in ‘The Dark Tower’ Adaptation
http://spinoff.comicbookresources.c...runner-for-lead-in-the-dark-tower-adaptation/

Um. Yeah. This fits nicely. For me, Roland was a blank slate...and spoiler alert, the twist at the end of the road, where he had to keep repeating the journey, certainly lends itself to the Dr Who theory that he kinda comes back different each time...Elba is just sooooooo good. He transcends race. I hope they are brave enough to base such an enormous risk on such an out of the box choice.
 
jerseydevil said:
’11.22.63’ Review: Hulu’s Stephen King Series Is Time (Travel) Well Spent
http://collider.com/11-22-63-review-james-franco-hulu/

It's a great book. I had my doubts about the casting, but it sounds like it all worked out.
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We are debating buying Hulu because of it but are concerned too. What's with all the cockroaches in the trailer??? That wasn't in the book. Feels like they wanted to make it extra creepy because it was a King novel when the original material was a straight forward time travel book and not creepy in any way shape or form Stephen King ...
 
roenick said:
We are debating buying Hulu because of it but are concerned too. What's with all the cockroaches in the trailer??? That wasn't in the book. Feels like they wanted to make it extra creepy because it was a King novel when the original material was a straight forward time travel book and not creepy in any way shape or form Stephen King ...
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Roaches and Stephen King? :O

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11.22.63 is a recent Stephen King novel that I really want to read, but you know, time. mhihi: :rimshot:
 
roenick said:
We are debating buying Hulu because of it but are concerned too. What's with all the cockroaches in the trailer??? That wasn't in the book. Feels like they wanted to make it extra creepy because it was a King novel when the original material was a straight forward time travel book and not creepy in any way shape or form Stephen King ...
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It would appear Chris Cooper's character(the guy who owns the diner) is beefed up some too. Probably to supply exposition that they needed to transfer over from the book. I still am not on board with the casting. I think not getting Gwendolyn Christie for the female lead was a borderline tragedy. And Franco skews WAYYYYYY younger than the character in the book reads. Jon Hamm maybe??? But the reviews seem to support their choices. I have a feeling, like most King adaptations, it's gonna go off the page a bit. Not necessarily bad, just different.
 
‘The Dark Tower’ Adds ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’s Abbey Lee as Female Lead
http://collider.com/the-dark-tower-movie-abbey-lee/

I’ve not read King’s book series, but as far as I can tell, no character named Tirana exists. I have a hard time believing they’d simply create a character for such a high-profile adaptation, but I suppose it’s possible
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Been a long time since I have read...but yeah, I have no clue who this character is.

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