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.