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Paramount Looking To Resurrect Stephen King's PET SEMATARY!
Beaks here...
Gage wants to play again.
According to the L.A. Times' Steven Zeitchik, Paramount is digging up a new adaptation of Stephen King's PET SEMATARY. I know there are folks who enjoy the Mary Lambert-directed 1989 film (which King scripted), but aside from (spoiler!) Fred Gwynne getting fucked up by a zombie toddler, I have no affection for it. The book scared the hell out of me as a kid, but the movie, while narratively faithful, played like straight-up camp.
So maybe a new take isn't an awful idea - especially if they can get a better handle on the creepy tone of the novel. The screenplay is currently being written by Matthew Greenberg (who had a part in adapting King's 1408; he also co-wrote the cult favorite REIGN OF FIRE), and, according to two of Zeitchik's agency sources, will be shopped to "high-level" directors. While they're not exactly high-level (yet), I'll go ahead and put in a vote for INSIDE's Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury; if allowed to make a hard-R horror flick, they could definitely bring a level of relentlessness absent from Lambert's version. Ron Howard would also be good.
Zeitchik's article reminds me that there's still an adaptation of IT in development at Warner Bros. I have no fucking clue how that would work as a two-hour feature.
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Maa' Fucka!
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Feb. 2, 2011, 6:23 p.m. CST
It should be filled with dead celebrity animals!
by CHRISTIAN_BALE_TRASHED_MY_LIGHTS
"That's not just any zombie bear, it's fucking Bart The Bear from 'The Edge'!" "It's okay! Zombie Lassie is here to save us. Oh fuck! He's eating mom's face!"
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How about an Ishtar remake???
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Why fuck it up now?
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Can you make it not suck this time? The movie came nowhere near the level of the book. Loved the adaptation of The Dead Zone though.
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I remember seeing "Pet Sematary" in the theater. The old lady with spina bifida haunts me to this day, but it was the Ramones song that really stuck with me. They continued to play that song in their setlist until the bitter end. There was only one Ramones. I saw them live a dozen times, and I was lucky enough to interview Johnny on the phone once. It still kills me that I can't look forward to a new Ramones record or hear Joey's voice on a new track.
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...but, really. I mean really. Really? Well, on the bright side, at least the odds are getting better that one of these many adaptations will actually be good.
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Every few month's they announce another King movie being remade. So far I have heard about Creepshow, It, The Stand, Firestarter and now Pet Semetary. So next month we will get an announcement that they are remaking Needful Things.
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"Rocket to Russia" was instrumental in making me the person I am today. When Joey died, so did a little piece of me.
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Remake has huge potential. Ron Howard wouldn't bring the horror the way someone like Verbinski or Aja would. Shyamalan (considering it wouldn't be an original, dopey story by himself) might be interesting.
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Feb. 2, 2011, 7:12 p.m. CST
Fred Gwynne, Dale Midkiff and Denise Crosby all say
by Grammaton Cleric Binks
Fuck you Hollywood. This was one of the best adapaptations of a King movie.
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No, he fucking wouldn't.
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Based on what? Or is that a joke?
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It might be good, since it's not an original story by him? Guess again. The Last Airbender wasn't a Shymalamadingdong original story either, and he fucked that up royally.
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even my spell check says so...I'm assuming Ain't it cool doesn't carry this miracle worker program...
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From the book, the misspelling on a sign for a "Pet Sematary" created by kids.
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the misspelling is part of the story. I kinda envy you, Pet Sematary is a great read and one of King's best. You should give it a read.
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Feb. 2, 2011, 7:34 p.m. CST
i totally broke the news that king was using again when the stand remake was announced
by stu_pickles
gotta pay for that cocaina somehow. am i right, fellas? haha...
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Ain't It King News. What the fuck is going on around here?
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Really? Uh, what the fuck makes you think he would be good to direct a film version of the scariest fucking book King ever wrote? Seriously man. What makes you think that?
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more Zelda!! I'm with the others on here that make a point about her scaring the shit out of them. Of all the awful, dreadful things in that book, she was the worst.
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He really did get one of the only subscriptions to free money from the money truck. What were we doing when they knocked?
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AICN is royally sucking Ron Howards dick right now!! All those interviews about "The Dilemma" and in the hopes of getting the Dark Tower news first! Now you are gonna start saying that this director would be good and that director would be good. Oh, and Ron Howard would be good. I'm sure Howard is checking all the TB's for suggestions on the Dark Tower stuff. I like the guy and all, but he has NEVER shown me anything to suggest he would be good for a horror movie.
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Really? WTF?
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"JESUS CHRIST ON HIS THRONE NO!!!"
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Didn't know that.
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Maybe they will CGI him in the new flick as his Opie persona.
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The creepshow remake threat has been going around for a few years now. IMDB and wikipedia still claim it will happen. The rumour is that King is involved and helping write the screenplay. But I don't believe it will actually happen.
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Feb. 2, 2011, 8:05 p.m. CST
"they'll say 'you hated her, rachel,' and that was true."
by stu_pickles
"and the'll say 'you wanted her dead,' and that was true too." no one ever accused this movie of having good acting. but fuck you zelda. i aint gonna be put in a bed forever
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Badly cast, weirdly shot, and that whole sister thing - Jesus, usually I'm for all-inclusion, but that whole thing could have been cut. It didn't make a lick of sense in the movie, and in the book it was mostly just interesting background on Rachel. And why was her sister played by the same guy who played the dead cyclist? the whole movie is a giant wtf - except for Gage and that creepy fucking giggle.
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Feb. 2, 2011, 8:11 p.m. CST
zombie Gage in his tuxido holding a scalpel sticks in my head
by vin_diggler
the whole idea of your own child killing his mother and laughing about it always disturbed me.
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Now I'll just go cry alone in a corner somewhere.....or maybe go read some more of Joe Hill's (King's son) novel, Horns. It's pretty good, especially if you like straight-up, no bullshit writing. Now THIS will make a good movie someday. I would love to see IT adapted with some real balls (Tim Curry saved the miniseries from being a total disaster). You need the f-bomb, for a start, and also you need to see lots of blood. The only way IT can be done for real is a HBO series that includes everything, especially the fire at the Black Spot part which always gives me chills, that flashback is one of King's finest pieces of writing IMO.
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Ayuh.
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When just a few extra world-building details would have made it a classic. Like: it's not the dragons that wipe out humankind, it's the 70-million-year-old viruses that they carry with them. That's the nearly-hard science approach. Or for the fantasy buffs: these dragons can fly (they actually could never fly with a wingspan that short, and bodies that big) because they actually use psychokinesis, both to fly and create their fire. A basic tutorial in sf or fantasy world-building, and 'Reign of Fire' would have been among the greats. Rant finished!
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No fucking way they are doing a straight re-make of Creepshow. Uh uh. I refuse... to... believe (And then my head exploded)
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Yeah? When did that reach cult status? Did we all miss out on that one?
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"cult status" is the new lingo for "totally sucked." Then I would agree that "Reign of Fire" was at cult status from day one.
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my brother has an awesome six foot poster for it that is still better than the entire movie was.
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While the original Pet Sematary was okay, the only good things about the movie were the performances of Fred Gwyne and Denise Crosby. I'll never forget the classic scene where Denise is in bed, reading the book of the same movie title. Hilarious. Plus, Fred Gwyne's performance is golden.
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I hope you die for that. Slowly. <br><p> Pet Sematary had some issues, nowhere near as horrifying as the book, but still one of the best King adaptations, and frankly, they did Zelda so well there's no point in trying to top it. No point in even trying to match it. Hands down one of the most frightening characters ever put on film, no matter how short the rest of the movie may be. <br><p> And who could they possibly get to do the end credits song even half as well as the Ramones? Fuck off with this. There are still dozens of King stories that haven't even been made ONCE. Let's be honest, they don't want to remake this because of any faults with the original. It's just to piggyback off the familiar title. If The Long Walk were shot twenty years ago, they'd be remaking that. But since it hasn't been shot at all, we may never get it. Because Hollywood truly believes we won't go see movies unless we recognize the title from twenty years ago. <br><p> Seriously though, I hope you die for the Ron Howard comment. That boring, safe, bland, vanilla piece of shit should just be happy making his fucking Dan Brown old person movies.
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I normally don't say anything about the GIFs, but the one you got going on up there is a bit disturbing..haha...hope you are feeling better
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Why do the guys who did Inside only get offered remakes? They were offered Halloween II, and then Hellraiser, and I don't know of anything else thrown at them at all. I don't want to see them do Pet Sematary. They need to attack us with something as vicious as Inside. Those two would blow away any of the hip Asian directors all the horror fans are cumming over these days. The American horror filmmakers don't even factor into the equation. Roth, Zombie, McKee, and Brad Anderson can't direct everything.
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Fred Gwynne was gold.
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Beaks is one of the sharper people on this site. I would expect the Howard idiocy from Nordling or Capone. Obviously Ron Howard is a terrible choice. Obviously. Especially next to the Inside directors.
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and the meek will inherit the earth.
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Feb. 2, 2011, 9:06 p.m. CST
Dear Hollywood, please think up new ideas, sincerely - me
by MrEkoLetMeLive
For serious, yo.
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What a dumb story.
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Seriously . . . is that a fucking joke Beaks? If so it's a bad one.
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Feb. 2, 2011, 9:24 p.m. CST
"The person you put up there ain't the person that comes back."
by cookepuss
Fred Gwynne & Miko Hughes were the heart of the original. Alas! One's career is dead and the other's actually dead. Figure out which is which. It could turn out to be an awesome remake, but it's more likely to return as an over the top, yet scare-free, soulless & paint by numbers affair. Leave this movie dead & buried.
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This film could be really badass.
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Instead of looking new how about some greats of the past?
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I know my post will create controversy in the talkback but this needs to be said. Rob Zombie would be perfect for the "Pet Sematary" reboot. He did it successfully with "Halloween". Why not this? Wouldn't surprise me if they're gonna go for him.
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What was that like? <p> I'm a pretty big Ramones fan, too, and saw them live once in their final years....and I've read pretty much every book ever written about them, and by all accounts, Johnny was a sociopath and a racist, but a necessary component to keeping the Ramones together because his militant style kept the rest of the band (who pretty much all suffered from mental illness) in line.
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destroyed nearly flawless source material in The Last Airbender. Please God, let him go away!
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In answer to klinteastwood's question, in the past most of King's works were being made into TV mini series movies. He never did movies for the big screen that much. The last Stephen King movie for the big screen was "The Mist" way back in 2007. King is the most famous author in the world right now, he's an icon, obviously. Hollywood will make a movie based on all of his books as much as possible. Stephen King, the man himself, is obviously a huge movie buff himself like all of us. I'm pretty sure he wants Hollywood to do films based on his work. I'm sure he's had a hand in wanting these films to get the greenlight. He's also a screenwriter too, btw, he's wrote most of his films for both mini series and big screen pictures.
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Pet Semetary is a good movie and creepy to boot.
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Those never look terrible! And they're always scary in horror movies! What could go wrong?
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I've always thought it deserved another shot at the big screen. It's not so dense -- i.e., "It" and "The Stand" -- that it wouldn't make a really lean, awesome, genuinely scary movie. The passages in which Louis Creed takes Gage's body to the ancient burial ground are some of the most terrifying I ever read. Of course, I was probably about 11 years old when I last read it.
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Simply the scariest piece of fiction I ever read. The one and only book or movie that gave me nightmares. Also, thanks to the movie, I learned how to pronounce "ayuh."
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Because the sign outside the graveyard was created by children who didn't know how to spell properly.
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not because it was worst compared to the 1st one, but because they showed all the faces of the people that died... I wont ever forget that shit
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I was just perusing the Wikipedia entry on "Pet Sematary and noticed that Mary Lambert's most recent directorial effort was "Mega Python vs. Gatoroid." I watched a bit of it the other night when it premiered on SyFy, and I'll be goddamned if it's not about the biggest piece of shit movie ever.
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the book was completely boring and played the same notes over and over and over again. I get it death is inevitable and it sucks. Can we move on please. The last 30 or 40 pages though are pure King and some of the best suspense stuff his ever written but with that said you have to read the first 400 something pages which are straight up boring. The movie was more better but that isn't saying much. If they are gonna remake this it need to be done with class and have a really interesting take on the material.
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Feb. 2, 2011, 10:24 p.m. CST
Me said more better me make mistake me dead like zombie boy in movie
by MainMan2001
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the original one was a huge disappointment - King screwed up his story big time by making Pascow a friendly ghost. And that ending was total crap! Stick to the damn book!
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Feb. 2, 2011, 10:30 p.m. CST
Also scratching my head over Reign of Fire's cult status.
by Yeah I Wrote That
Beaks, can you elaborate?
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First real punk band I ever started listening to. My first band I was in when I was...geez, 12 or 13 covered "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg" at every show we played. Shit, one of the coolest days of my life was the year I went to Warped Tour and spent an hour hanging out with Arturo Vega and just listening to his stories. Great band, truly jealous of all you guys that got to see them live, interview them, etc.
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and let's have the damn Wendigo in it this time please!
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Feb. 2, 2011, 10:43 p.m. CST
Book and film are classic. Why not remake the pos that is Christine?
by Tikidonkeypunch
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...that genuinely creeped me the fuck out. I was about 17 when it came out and I still get the willies thinking about it. I think it's also the only Stephen King book from his classic era I've never reread.
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Feb. 2, 2011, 11:02 p.m. CST
It'll be more about the evil pets, and they'll be computer generated
by HadWoodenTeethChasedMobyDick
still they'll never top the living half dog in Return of the Living Dead
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Feb. 2, 2011, 11:22 p.m. CST
just looked at a bunch of horror movies vids on youtube
by yourSTEPDADDY
and I truly miss the 80s/90s horror movies with over the top deaths and the need to add in martial arts ex. Phantasm 3 also, I just realized Kristy Swanson was in Deadly Friend... damn I used to love that chick
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Not sure that makes it "cult status" but it wasn't as bad as some people trash it. Certainly watchable (Hey, there's a blurb to put on a movie poster) Anyway, King is a big film geek like most people here (have a pet theory that he was actually Danny_Glovers_Dickblood on the talkback...No?) but I can't say that I've been overly impressed by all the film adaptations of his movies - despite the amount of pull he must have in their adaptations. For every Shawshank Redemption and Mist, there's a Maximum Overdrive and Dreamcatcher. There's only a handful of King books that have gone to be great movies. Some of his work, I think, is just unfilmable. At least to do the stories justice. I suspect the 1989 version of Pet Semetary is as good as its going to get.
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Still the scariest fucking final sentence Stephen King has ever written. People give King shit for not knowing how to properly end a story, but when he *does* do it right, he fucking knocks it out of the park. The movie was okay when I was younger (and I was amused to see the same cat in Darkman a year later), but the book was not only scary as hell, it was also deeply, *deeply* haunting and mournful, which the gross-out movie never got right. I'd be up for a new version.
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Feb. 2, 2011, 11:39 p.m. CST
wtfuckers? Lawrence Fishburne was in Nightmare on Elm Street?
by yourSTEPDADDY
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http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2011/02/01/big-lebowski-2-in-the-works/?iref=obnetwork
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Feb. 2, 2011, 11:52 p.m. CST
I've finally shaken the memories of all the mediocre King adaptations
by lv_426
so that I can re-read or read some of his classic books, and now Hollywood is gonna remake or adapt a ton of his work again. I guess I better hit the book store.
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Man, Hollywood is creatively bankrupt. I'm sick of remakes, and King's recent books aren't too great either. The original "Cemetery" was pretty good. Gage really creeped me out at the end - childish giggles, animal growls, then the classic "No Fair!" line.
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I know women who were more frightened by Gage's death than any booga-booga in the story.
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The movie made a very significant change to the story, probably for practical reasons. The movie has the zombie kid, Gage, as an evil toddler but he's... a toddler. What helpe make the book so creepy was that while physically a toddler, Zombie Gage was clearly possessed by a nuch more mature and all-knowing intelligence. So you'd have a kid in a kiddie voice walking up to people and spewing out hateful, vile, curse-filled "gossip" about their lives. "You're wife was a fucking whore. She's in hell now..." Movie Gage would only laugh evilly and do some... evil babytalk. Likely because having a toddler spewing obscenities would be tough sell in many ways. Plus... how do you get a toddler who can sell mature evil... unless you get Stewie Griffin. If they can crack how to get an onscreen Gage who can do that crap, they're golden.
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and anyone who had a hand in making it should be shot
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Feb. 3, 2011, 2:15 a.m. CST
@yourstepdaddy: Fishburne played he orderly, Max. This was when he was still Larry Fishburne.
by cookepuss
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then I remember all the shit adaptations: Cujo, Christine, Children of the Corn (sequels, dtv remake- all shit), Firestarter (and that stupid sequel miniseries), Silver Bullet, Maximum Overdrive, The Running Man, Pet Sematary, Graveyard Shift, The Lawnmower Man, The Dark Half, The Tommyknockers, Needful Things, The Mangler, Langoliers, Thinner, Night Flier, Storm of the Century, Hearts in Atlantis, Rose Red, Dreamcatcher, Riding the Bullet, 1408, Secret Window, Desperation. The TV miniseries in the 90s tried, but "It" and "The Stand" are shadows of the books. Sleepwalkers was an original script by King, but again, not that great. On the other hand, there's been some good stuff (and I use good loosely to allow some more "charming" choices to make it): Carrie (Brian De Palma)- sequel and tv remake sucked. Salem's Lot (Tobe Hooper)- the tv constraints hurt, but damn if that vampire kid floating in the fog and scratching at the window doesn't cause me to shiver.... still, this could use a new adaptation The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)- yeah more Kubrick than King, but I like it. The tv miniseries version was shit. Creepshow (George Romero)- I like the tribute to EC Comics, even though the quality is uneven; one I'm giving a break to (sequels sucked). The Dead Zone (David Cronenberg) Cat's Eye- another uneven anthology, but James Woods quitting smoking with a foolproof system is gold Stand by Me (Rob Reiner) Misery (Rob Reiner) The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont) Dolores Claiborne- not that great of a story, but the adaptation is adequate, not really much to improve upon Apt Pupil (Bryan Singer) The Green Mile (Frank Darabont) The Mist (Frank Darabont) At the end of the day, a handful of films I like to revisit and would recommend to others.
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Feb. 3, 2011, 3:47 a.m. CST
Better question: What hasn't been adapted that should be?
by polisciguy83
It's interesting that we're hearing about new adaptations of his most recognizable titles. What would you like to see tackled? To be honest, I haven't really read a lot of King past "Dreamcatcher", "From a Buick 8", "Black House", so I can't see for stuff like "Cell" or "Under the Dome". I would like to see adaptations of: Bag of Bones- author with writer's block trying to protect woman and her child; supernatural element, more more restrained. The Eyes of the Dragon- an engaging fantasy work on its own merits; whether it ever linked to Dark Tower and Flagg means little to me. The Talisman- another interesting fantasy quest, with boy traying across U.S. between parallel worlds. The Long Walk- very dark; marathon across America- you drop your pace, you are killed. He has some great short stories though it'd be tough to craft a feature film around one (fuck it, maybe an anthology) Jerusalem's Lot; One for the Road- both stories tie in to Salem's Lot, with the former getting into Lovecraft territory. The latter has vampires in a snow storm; fucking awesome. Strawberry Spring- sure, it'd be hard to sustain the story without the twist/reveal, especially over a period of a film, but I love this story a lot. I Know What You Need- very disturbing story about a relationship and a person no longer having control in their choices; the concept is handled right by King, hard to do on film. The Last Rung on the Ladder- for people who don't think King can write a human story without supernatural horror/thrills, fuck you. Read this story and find out if your humanity is still alive. I would love to see an adaptation of this.
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I'm part way through Under the Dome, and have to say, it has a lot of potential for a flick. Don't know how it all turns out (may very well go for a complete shit, as they sometimes do - Sorry Uncle Steve. Love ya, but it has happened on occasion - IMHO). Don't know how you effectively boil down 1100 pages, but I think it could be done, depending on how important it is for all the subplots to tie together in the end.
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At least I remember reading that a few months ago. Did it get dropped? If something is going to get remade, how about The Running Man? Movie was shit and nothing like the book. Now, speaking of The Lawnmower Man...
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Feb. 3, 2011, 5:57 a.m. CST
polisciguy83, it wouldn't be hard to craft a film around his short stories
by Bobo_Vision
As has been shown with The Running Man, Secret Window, 1408, and Shawshank Redemption.
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Feb. 3, 2011, 6:01 a.m. CST
Oh wait, scratch Shawshank and Running Man from that list....
by Bobo_Vision
...and add Children of the Corn, Lawnmower Man, Graveyard Shift, and Maximum Overdrive. Not sure if that strengthens my argument. I liked 1408, however.
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Or are they still churning out stv sequels.
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As great as it was seeing The Ramones live in their final years, there was something joyless and business-like about their performance that I couldn't put my finger on until I read the behind-the-scenes stories years later about how they hated each other. They were known for playing fast, and got faster and faster over the years, and it just sounded like they wanted to get off the stage as soon as possible, and playing faster was one way to do that. I would have liked to hear them play when Dee Dee was still with the band.
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My favorite was Church the cat. I fell in love with cats after that movie.
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Yeah, just remake everything at this point hollywood before you inplode on yourself.
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Running man book has him crash a plane into killian with his guts hanging out while flipping him off. Killian is supposed to see the flipped bird through the front windshield of the plane traveling 400mph straight at em. Movie was probably better
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Ron Howard should be attached to a 'Christine' remake, just so we can all refer to it as "Richie CUNTingham's Christine". Hur hur.
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It starred Christian Bale and Matthew McConaughey. It was a big budget release that did poorly at the box office. It was a pre-Batman Bale so although he was a great actor he was not the A-lister he is now. That was McConaughey's job. Reign of Fire was good, but not great. It had a great idea, and a lot of potential, but fell flat. I was irked when the first posters for the movie had helicopters fighting the dragons, but this never happened in the movie. Dragon appearances were minimal, and the copters were just one copter slinking along trying not to get caught by the dragons. On the plus side when Butler saw Bale and McConaughey having a roid eating contest he decided to bulk up, and that got us 300.
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But Zelda will do his daughter...
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I got hammered on red wine last night and watched it on my projector, true story.
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Making the Victor Pascow character a source of sarcasm and borderline comic relief. Turning Tummy Baterman into a fat retarded kid. Pascow needs to be much more dark and brooding, almost menacing. The Baterman segment needs to be longer and the kid needs to be pure, quiet, calculating evil.
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Timmy, stupid Droid spell check!
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Fuck you, that movie is awesome.
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Except for Fred G, the acting completely sucked. Seriously, if you haven't seen it in awhile watch it again. The actress that played the daughter almost makes me want to poke my eyeballs out. I swear the cat was probably the best actor in the whole movie. I forced myself to like it back then since I was a King fanatic, but man... it does not hold up well at all. I knew Romero was given the opportunity back then to direct it, but I don't remember what happened to change it. Too bad. Who ever does it now, just give it the love it deserves.
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...anybody who has any taste for horror, Lovecraft, del Toro, or Forrest J. Ackerman for that matter, needs to head over to the New Yorker for their 13-page(!) profile of Guillermo del Toro, with much detail on his designs and preparation for At The Mountains of Madness. To use properly a much-abused word, it sounds _awesome_. That is all.
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Sorry, I've been away from AICN for a bit (shame!). I was writing for a local weekly when the Ramones were coming through town on their last tour so I made some calls and got an interview with Johnny. They were opening for White Zombie. Johnny seemed to be exactly what you would expect. I started the interview by saying, "I've been a huge fan for half of my life. How are you doing?" He responded, "Ugh, not too good. It's raining here so I'm stuck inside and bored." He told me he didn't regret never really making it big or breaking into the mainstream, although they REALLY wanted to get radio airplay. He said they had done better than he ever expected and lasted much longer than expected. I enjoyed asking him about "Rock n Roll High School" because he thought they had made the worst movie ever made. He was in New York and it was playing in a sleazy grindhouse theater, so he slipped into the back of theater and was shocked to find the audience going apeshit with laughter. I've got the interview on mini cassette somewhere. I should dig it out.
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for both Pet Sematery films. And damn did the sequel suck but the noted exception of "Poison Heart". God Bless the Ramones and (again) a postumous RIP to Joey, Johnny and Dee Dee.
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Feb. 3, 2011, 11:37 a.m. CST
"Things sure have changed since we got kicked out of high school..."
by WriteForTheEdit
PJ Soles made me waste about 5 billion-trillion potential children, back in the day...
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This needs to be done right. The two leads in the original were simply horrible. Ever seen either one in a film since? And the kid just looked like a little kid, not some messed up morturary abomination with a lopsidded head. Zelda was waaaaaaaaaaaaaay over the top. I was so dissapointed with this flick. A Rock and Roll soundtrack? What?? King should never be allowed to write his own screenplays. This flick needs to be treated like an indie. Make it black and white, no soundtrack, and dripping with atmosphere. No Hollywood flash-just tell the story and let the chips fall where they may.
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I thought the movie was okay, but still it was creepy in parts. Salem's Lot was the scariest of King's books. That gaves me nightmares. Oh, and why is Harry dressed up in a bear costume and giving Vincent Price a knob job?
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Black Eyed Peas. Pass
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But he started and loved Pet Semetary. Then King foreshadowed Gage's death... My Dad quit books altogether.
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Feb. 3, 2011, 12:49 p.m. CST
Its taken from the scene at the end of Kubricks THE SHINNING when Shelly Duvall is running through the hotel and sees that happening in one of the rooms.
by uberman
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"Bag of Bones" -- I remember liking that book! Why don't they try making that book before going back to re-make the old ones?
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is already set for a television mini-series to be directed by King's good buddy Mick Garris.
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is to be expected. After all, many of them are already a good two decades old now. So... Besides, I'm actually eager to see new takes on the material. It's not as if Mary Lambert's adaption of SEMATERY is some sort of a classic that can't be touched. I mean, it had it's moments, but it was deeply flawed in many respects. So, by all mens, let's see what a new director can do. Same thing with IT. It's really remembered positively for one thing & one thing only, Tim Curry's iconic performance as Pennywise. Other than that it was pretty much shit IMO. Just a bunch of aging sitcom & television drama stars going through the motions for four hours. And while the novel was chock full of monsters, all we got was about one minute of a bad teenage werewolf replica. C'MON! I mean, other than Curry, the scariest thing about the 1990 mini-series was "John Boy's" faux ponytail!
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but I always thought that Maximum Overdrive was not an adaptation of a King novel as folks on here are considering it, but an original screenplay written for the screen and directed by King himself. I know he filmed most of it in Wilmington, N.C. back when Old Man DeLaurentis had his big studio there. Whatever it is, it is so bad it becomes a bizarre concoction, and the AC/DC soundtrack is the sweetener that makes it drinkable.
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Yeah, you should upload the audio interview with Johnny onto Youtube. It's a shame, they're more popular dead than alive. <p> There used to be a great audio interview on Youtube (which has since been removed) where Marky was on the Howard Stern show and he was bad-mouthing Joey after the band had broken up about how Joey had mental illness. Then Joey calls up the show, and the two of them went at it taking jabs at each other...not yelling or anything, but insulting each other. But Joey was laughing, and you got to see how funny Joey was...but Marky wasn't and was clearly in the wrong. <p> At one point, Joey mentioned how Marky was bald and wears a wig. Marky denied it and said Joey was bald (which of course he wasn't), so Joey suggested they should both come on Howard's show and have Howard tug on their hair to see who's bald. It was funny stuff. Marky came off as kind of a lowlife.
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Here it is: <p> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkMj_h_WXzU
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The story is called "Trucks" and appears in the "Night Shift" collection. It was also made into a tv movie in the late 1990 called "Trucks".
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Feb. 3, 2011, 4:07 p.m. CST
Watch "End of the Century" for a good Ramones bio/documentary.
by The Reluctant Austinite
I didn't know much about the negative stuff going on in the band until near the end of their career; stuff like Johnny stealing Joey's girlfriend and the two not speaking for 20 years. Johnny did not visit Joey in the hospital or attend his funeral, supposedly, and Joey wrote "The KKK Took My Baby Away" based on Johnny. I somehow avoided all that negativity, and they didn't air their dirty laundry until after they retired. The documentary "End of the Century" is an honest look at the band. I do believe Marky was wearing a wig while playing drums with Jerry Only's Misfits. I heard it caught on fire once during a show.
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This is a good trend--remake bad films that had potential. The book deserves a better movie.
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Well, I guess they could rework some stuff from the book, yeah. But even that ending could work. I mean, Killian IS in a TV studio and there ARE cameras watching as the plane comes in if I remember correctly. Where the book was just Richards doing his best to stay underground and having to send in his recordings, the movie made the game show to "game showey" I guess. Too cartoonish and silly. The book was dirty and gritty and even funny in a few spots. And man did it hit the reality TV craze spot on!! Talk about foreseeing the future. I've been wanting a proper Running Man movie for a long time. Maybe one day. Probably the day we get a faithful adaptation of Planet of the Apes though. That'll never happen.
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Why the renewed interest in him? And why are they remaking perfectly good films instead of focusing on his work that hasn't been adapted yet? I want to see "Duma Key" and "Cell" and "Under the Dome." "Pet Semetary" is already great the way it is. Don't remake it.
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I keep seeing that mentioned, but wasn't Eli Roth doing that?
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On his Webpage Abel mentioned he was set to direct the first time and something went down....but he claims he would love to get another and would direct the heck out it.
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of effective horror and crap execution. Perhaps I saw the movie right after I read the book, which is a really repellent, skin-crawlingly nasty piece of work (i.e. very good) But the film was cast with nonentities (the family, particularly the father, who is such a key character) alongside really Fred Gwynne (really excellent - I can't think of anyone who could do it as well except maybe James Cromwell). The child was nasty as hell. Oh, I don't know what I'm trying to say. I think it's an unfilmable book: if it were accurate, it would be almost unwatchable, and would have to be a straight PG17 nightmare. Speaking of unfilmable, I'd like to see an R-rated, accurate TV version of IT by HBO, with the kid sex, but well, let's not kid ourselves, eh?
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except The Shining: it's the only one that has any real cinematic language, any visual poetry in it. The others are all just adaptations, ranging from the inept to the campy.
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Carrie: horribly dated and campy Christine: shite Maximum Overdrive: legendary crapola Salem's Lot: TV movie: pacing is leaden: we all remember the three good scenes but apart from those (and James Mason slumming) it's bog-standard. The Dead Zone: finally, a real director. Decent jobs from everyone. Misery: high camp, Kathy Bates a legend but my God, Bette Davies would be envious. Dolores Claiborne: underrated womens' movie with much to be said for it but not horror. The Mist: workmanlike and distinguished by excellent scene-chewery from Marcia Gay Harden. The Shawshank Redemption: I'll leave this alone: it's a fine melodrama and everyone loves it. The Green Mile: tries to recapture TSS magic, fails. Annoying 'magic negro'. Partly saved by horrific electric chair sequence. Fizzles out. IT: Tim Curry we love you but the rest of it is shite. Firestarter: Wha? The Tommyknockers: I can't quite... Children of the Corn: 2,3,4,5,6 Jesus make it stop... Needful Things... ... I just looked up a list of all the stuff by King that's been adapted for other media and I'm amazed the man doesn't own a US state of his own by now.
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...that they already remade 'Salem's Lot. Wasn't as good as the first one, though I did like Rutger Hauer. also loved some seies of King adaptations for tv. All I remember seeing was an adaptation of Battleground where William hurt has to fight a bunch of toy soldiers. Was pretty good.
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Feb. 4, 2011, 4:27 p.m. CST
it's true..other than the shining, remake anything you want.
by FleshMachine
it one of the few instances where the film (kubricks) was way better than the book. different..but better.
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I was 17 or so. Terrifying book... especially if you were smart and you grew up in the country, something King understands and usually gets right. The movie got the details wrong somehow... it didn't get under my skin like brain-eating maggots, like the book did. The rot the book left inside my skull is still there. Uuuuugh! I'd welcome a really good new adaptation that capture's the book's irredeemable bleakness. It would have to make The Shining look like Mary Poppins to work.
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The first movie was also a really terrible miscast of Denise Crosby, who deserved a better agent. Dexter proved she can still be a welcome guest star and character actress.
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...and others, who mentioned how it kind of infected your mind. I remember during the period I was reading that book, it was like a darkness surrounded me, but only when I was actually reading or thinking about the book. It was like the book itself, the pages, the very paper, were possessed by some dark spirit.
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