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Stephen King's 1408 accommodates a new guest!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with another of our horrific Wednesday updates. This time we're talking about that adaptation of Stephen King's really creepy-ass haunted hotel room short story 1408, which stars John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson playing the only 2 characters in the whole story (as it was written). However, a young lady named Kate Walsh has signed on to play Cusack's ex-wife.
I don't think I've seen an episode of GREY'S ANATOMY, which Walsh is most known for. I'm more interested in what this means for the movie. In the book, a writer famous of disproving legends of haunted places, checks into the Dolphin Hotel, has a meeting with the manager (Sam Jackson), who tries to dissuade the writer from entering room 1408. That's half the story, the other half being the room fucking with the writer.
Great story, great read. But it is a short story and I understand the filmmakers needing to add on to material to make it feature length. So, we know Cusack's writer character has a wife and a daughter, thanks to the Variety break. I wonder what else Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski have up their sleeves.
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Reader Talkback
Furst! by b3mike | Jul 12th, 2006 06:35:08 AM | Kings short storys are really
Hit or Miss. by Drworm2002 | Jul 12th, 2006 06:41:41 AM | hmmm by DonnieDorko | Jul 12th, 2006 06:42:54 AM | Sounds like... by Boba Fat | Jul 12th, 2006 07:23:07 AM | Just make the hotel isolated
during the winter and add by tripp5 | Jul 12th, 2006 07:50:19 AM | King flicks never live up to
the Hype by Superneal | Jul 12th, 2006 07:50:32 AM | I'm interested. Cusack is
pretty much golden. by brycemonkey | Jul 12th, 2006 08:08:15 AM | I watch only if Cusack rides a
huge Big Wheel by durhay | Jul 12th, 2006 08:32:23 AM | reminds me of a short ghost
story, by durhay | Jul 12th, 2006 08:36:01 AM | it'd be better if Cusack
rode a SMALL big wheel by keyserSOZE | Jul 12th, 2006 08:38:01 AM | Snakes in a motherfucking
Hotel Room by tripp5 | Jul 12th, 2006 08:40:26 AM | Kate Walsh played in ex-wife
in "Grey's" too... by Ribbons | Jul 12th, 2006 09:06:44 AM | I really hope they pull this
off by Suspect Device | Jul 12th, 2006 09:09:43 AM | One of King's Better
Stories... by hipcheck13 | Jul 12th, 2006 09:56:03 AM | King's stories by Mechasheeva | Jul 12th, 2006 10:04:08 AM | Seperated From the Source
Material? by DefyThis | Jul 12th, 2006 10:24:38 AM | Dreamcatcher only deviated by Mechasheeva | Jul 12th, 2006 10:30:13 AM | Defy... Straight adaptations
of his have been pretty by modlight | Jul 12th, 2006 10:53:04 AM | "NINE, THIS IS NINE!" by butnugget | Jul 12th, 2006 11:13:36 AM | A faithful to Kings story
Running Man remake by thestrongestone | Jul 12th, 2006 11:27:56 AM | Running Man by JuntMonkey | Jul 12th, 2006 11:56:24 AM | A new Running Man needs to be
done by Mechasheeva | Jul 12th, 2006 12:03:47 PM | Re-Running Man: One Problem by Det. John Kimble | Jul 12th, 2006 12:04:18 PM | Nobody's brought up the
Mist? OK, I'll have to do
it. by Nice Marmot | Jul 12th, 2006 12:10:50 PM | John Kimble... by bralli | Jul 12th, 2006 12:11:30 PM | Nightmares and Dreamscapes by Ray Garraty #47 | Jul 12th, 2006 12:22:52 PM | King should have died in that
hit and run by Monkeybutt2000 | Jul 12th, 2006 12:28:28 PM | Have some faith! by CallMeX | Jul 12th, 2006 12:50:41 PM | There needs to be very
faithful adaptations of... by BurtGummer | Jul 12th, 2006 01:14:36 PM | Monkeybutt2000 by Lovecraftfan | Jul 12th, 2006 02:00:18 PM | So, King rewrote the Shining
and Christine by Dannychico | Jul 12th, 2006 02:01:47 PM | Mist! by Mechasheeva | Jul 12th, 2006 02:40:54 PM | The Mist by secret_isaac | Jul 12th, 2006 03:43:45 PM | THE MIST by Cash Bailey | Jul 12th, 2006 04:35:27 PM | Stay out of room 1408, Doc . .
. by mascan | Jul 12th, 2006 04:37:15 PM | So, King rewrote The Stand... by TBThom | Jul 12th, 2006 10:02:35 PM | I still say John Carpenter
should make The Mist by Osmosis Jones | Jul 12th, 2006 10:08:55 PM | by Kampbell-Kid | Jul 13th, 2006 10:19:02 AM | Osmosis Jones by Kid Joker | Jul 13th, 2006 12:54:56 PM |
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