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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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Riding the Bullet was a fun B Movie...real different then the story.
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Sounds interesting though.. I hope they don't just add filling with pre-story etc. or add teleporters and Benny Hill.
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an updating of "The Red Room" A victorian ghost story by some victorian guy.
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an elevator full of blood and a couple of creepy twin girls, and we got us a movie!
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Truth is they usually let me down cause they are never scary
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Pigs might live and root in shit but SLJ is more like ham with every flick ;-)
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through the hallways.
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where a man checks into a supposedly haunted room against the wishes of the innkeeper. In the middle of the night, he hears something, so he reaches in the dark for a match to light the candle. A match is placed into his hand.
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now that'd be golden.
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i like King, Cusack and Jackson...so why do i still feel so "meh" about this?
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Typecasting? Nah.
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The story freaked me out. t's all going to depend on how they handle the phone voice. Hopefully that won't be SLJ's role. That could be a
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...he's otherwise been terrible. If King was smart he'd stick to short stories for awhile - this format forces him to keep things lean and mean and spares his Constant Readers from the flab, fluff and nonstop pontifications of his "no editor on God's green earth would cut ANYTHING from this!" novels.
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tend to work better as movies when they're more seperated from the source material. Take "The Shining", which used the book as a basis for creating horror more psycological than supernatural, then look at something like "Dreamcatcher". Ugh. So it gives me hope that they're changing some stuff around here. Good cast, too.
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Sorry Mechasheeva but you're way off on that one. Dreamcatcher *was* seperated from the source material when they pasted on that godawful ending where Duddits is really an alien. The best King movies (Stand by Me, The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption, Misery) stuck to the source material. When you deviate, they stop making sense. Now if only someone would have the balls to remake The Running Man properly.
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In the final frames. Other than that it kept most of the story intact. I'm thinking more along the lines of things like Pet Semetary, Thinner, or made-for-TV shite that kept King's dialogue word for word (like Dreamcatcher often did). Because the stuff that comes out of King's characters, while it may work on the page, more often than not sounds incredibly hackneyed coming out of actors' mouths.
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bad, and they usually end up as TV movies. But as much as I love Arnie's Running Man, a real adaptation would be amazing. That would be the first "reboot" or "remake from the source material" that would be different enough to work. but - semi SPOILER HERE... they could never ever do that ending now. Well they could, but I doubt they would.
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"ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS ARE DEAD!"
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Would be fucking awesome. Ben Richards crawling through the pipes or sewer or whatever abslutely shitscared of the guys coming after him. Well it was great on paper anyway and such a contrast from Arnie's indestructible killing/one-liner machine. And they HAVE to do that ending. SPOILER
I read the book post 9/11 and it was weird to be cheering on the main character as he flies a plane into a building. They have to do it just cos people would go apeshit. No marketing campaign required whatsoever. -
Yea, I loved the Running Man story as well. I read it 11 years ago, and to this day that story and the rest of "The Bachman Books" influence my imagination heavily. I want to be on the lam...
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and it needs to incorporate some of the satirical elements of the original movie, too. Mostly because it never hurts to point out how bonk reality TV is.
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SPOILER WARNING: FOR THOSE WHO HAVEN'T READ THE STORY DO NOT READ PAST THIS SENTENCE. OK, still with me?I think there might be *some* sensitivity to a plane flying into a building at the end.
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When's that there Mist movie comin' out?
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That's the first thing that run through my mind too...
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Nightmares and Dreamscapes starts tonight, but the episodes aren't based on that book, but rather different parts of King's resume. It will be interesting to see how the short stories are translated...tonight is "Battlegrounds," about the hitman who gets attacked by toys. I'm still hoping that the Long Walk comes out before I'm dead, as well.
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Cuz now he would be a lengend instead of a shithead. Talk about waisting your second chance.
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King's books are usually great but they become shit in the translation to film. Carrie, a great movie, could've been so much better. I would've loved to have Sissy Spacek walking through the town, setting shit on fire. That was a great part in the book. So long as they don't let Mick Garris anywhere near this movie, I'm happy.
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Bachman's "The Regulators" and "The Moving Finger", the bizzare little fucker from Nightmares and Dreamscapes. Although The Regulators would be almost unfilmable and should be NC-17. SPOILER- The Regulators's was one of the first King books I ever read before I really got hooked on him. I've always had very vivid image of Mary Jackson getting half her head blown off, falling over, her skirt rising up and revealing shw has no undies on, while Collie Entragien just stared. The weird shit that pops into your head from reading Stephen King is second to none.
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Thats doesnt make any sense. Exactly how is he a shithead now. Because he continues to write books. Ahh right. Also hell still be a legend when he dies.
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In 1408 and From a Buick... - am I missing something? can you do that?
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I've been holding out hope for a movie based on The Mist for years. I'm kinda shocked that something so filmable hasn't been done yet. But for now, this has some promise (I mean, Cusack and Sam) and I'm interested to see where Eli Roth takes Cell next year. That was King's best book in awhile.
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Frank Darabont has gone all quiet on The Mist... which makes me sad and glad at the same time. Sad because, well, obviously I want to see that black and white, low-tech, CGI-less scarefest. But glad because, well - not even he could film that story and do it real justice. Maybe best left on the page, and in our imaginations.
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I'm sure it'll come out as soon as Darabont stops wanting to be Frank Capra.
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and called it Cell... - am I missing something? Can you do that?
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Imagine The Mist with 2:35 Dean Cundey photography, an Ennio Morricone score, Rob Bottin monster designs, and Kurt Russell in the lead? Just have Darabont write the screenplay and hand it over to Carpenter!
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Just make sure you mop up when you're finished. At a boy!
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