Head over to Entertainment Weekly for loads of info about the upcoming The Mist TV series.
Here is how Christian Torpe sees it:
“I pitched it as ‘Ingmar Bergman’s Jaws,’”
“I wanted to be respectful to the source material, but my feeling was there was already a great adaptation out there by Frank Darabont. The novella is 200 pages and one location, and we needed to change that to make an ongoing series. But we wanted to remain faithful to the heart of the story,”
The TV series will be different compared to King’s story and Darabont’s film. It will be it’s own but at the same time remain faithful to the heart of King’s story.
While the series will try to establish a different story from the King novella and the Darabont movie, Torpe did hint at some possible crossover later in the show. “It’s a weird cousin to the original material,” he says. “It has a constant ebb and flow communication with the novella. But who knows? Maybe some of the original characters will make a cameo at some point.”
For him, The Mist serves as a chance to use a horror story to explore real life dynamics, much as The Twilight Zone did decades ago.
Here are the poster for The Mist as well as a bunch of official photos. If you want to know more about it, check out my review with Christian Torpe, the shows creator, executive producer and showrunner here.
Here is the cover for the audio edition of Gwendy's Button Box. It also reveal that it will includ a conversation between Stephen King & Richard Chizmar.
I don't know about you but I can't stop laughing about this class assignment to draw a self-portrait that Jackson Roberts who plays Georgie in the new IT did. Can you imagine the teachers reaction…
Looks like more Dark Tower figures are coming. The Dark Tower Movie Minimates Series 1 Box Set
The epic novels by Stephen King are now an epic feature film, and DST is epically excited about it! This all-new box set of four Minimates mini-figures features four characters from the upcoming film – Jake, the Gunslinger, the Man in Black, and one top-secret character – each with up to 14 points of articulation and fully interchangeable parts and accessories. All four figures come packaged on a full-color blister card. (Item # APR172628, SRP: $24.99)
What do you Think? Good or Bad? Will you get them?
Here is an entertaining article about how professional clowns are afraid that the new IT movie will put them out of business. Or as one clown puts it: “No one sticks up for a clown. The only thing cooler to dislike is a mime.”
Tobin Bell, star of SAW movies will star in an adaptation of King's My Pretty Pony.
“Saw” star Tobin Bell and Noah Jupe are top-lining in the independent drama “My Pretty Pony,” based on the Stephen King short story.
Shooting is planned for Michigan this spring. The story follows an elderly man on his deathbed who gives his young grandson a pocket watch and warns the boy against the dangers of letting time slip away.
Luke Jaden is directing from a script he adapted based upon King’s story, first pubished in 1989.
Phil Wurtzel of Friel Films is producing. Brian Kavanaugh-Jones (“Loving” and “Midnight Special”) and Josh Boone (“The Fault in Our Stars”) are executive producing.
Thanks to Anders Jakobson, Douglas Dowie, Dimitris Tso and Lou Sytsma.
This fall Cemetery Dance will release a book called Reading Stephen King with essays about why we love reading the works of Stephen King. The book is edited by Brian Freeman and illustrated by Ray Russotto.
Table of Contents:
- "Introduction" by Brian James Freeman
- "Sometimes You Go Back" by Stewart O'Nan
- "Christine" by Richard Chizmar
- "The Art of Stephen King" by Frank Darabont
- "Spock's Not The Only One Who Can Mind Meld: Stephen King and the Telepathy of Writing" by Stephen Spignesi
- "Disappearing Down That Rabbit Hole" by Justin Brooks
- "The Politics of Being Stephen King" by Tony Magistrale
- "The Adventure of Reading Stephen King" by Michael R. Collings
- "Reading the Lost Works of Stephen King" by Rocky Wood
- "Twins and Twining in Stephen King's Dark Tower Series" by Robin Furth
- "King Since Scribner" by Kevin Quigley
- "Being a Non-US Stephen King Fan" by Hans-Ake Lilja
- "The Role of Religion in Stephen King's Desperation" by Billy Chizmar
- "From A Buick 8" by Jack Ketchum
- "Living in a Web of Mystery" by Bev Vincent
- "The One That Got Away" by Mick Garris
- "My Accidental Obsession" by Jay Franco
- "Stephen King Celebration" by Clive Barker
Rob Kyker who works on the set of Mr Mercedes shared these photos yesterday that indicates that King visited the set for Mr Mercedes. If that means he's doing a cameo was NOT mentioned.
5,5 months before even being released Sleeping Beauties has now been sold to Anonymous Content that will develop it into a TV series.
In a very competitive situation, Anonymous Content has landed the rights to Sleeping Beauties, the upcoming supernatural/suspense novel by horror master Stephen King and his son, Owen King. Anonymous will be partnering with the Kings to develop Sleeping Beauties as a TV series.
Oscar-winning producer Michael Sugar (Spotlight) and Ashley Zalta will executive produce the series for Anonymous Content.
The Eyes of the Dragon contest is over and this one was a hard one it seems. A lot of you gave the answer 24 and that isn’t the correct one. There are 24 illustrations in the portfolio but the question was:
How many illustrations are included in Vikings edition of Eyes of the Dragon?
And the correct answer to that is 23.
The winner is B. Gilbert who will get a signed Eyes of the Dragon poster.
Great casting for the audiobook of Gwendy's Button Box from www.StephenKing.com.
Big casting news! Maggie Siff from Billions, Mad Men and Sons of Anarchy will narrate the audiobook edition of GWENDY’S BUTTON BOX by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar. Available on CD and for download on May 16, 2017, the audiobook will feature a bonus, the Edgar® nominated short story ‘The Music Room’ – also read by Siff – PLUS an interview with the authors!
Come on fans of the Stephen King. Show yourself with you beautiful King books. I know you have the books and I know you have the camera (or phone). And I want to see it!
Send in photos of you and King’s books so that I can add them to the Fan Photo Page. Here are my photos.
Looking at all these I'm thinking I might need the next photo without the beard?
Also, if you send in a photo of you and something connected to Lilja’s Library you get a chance to get a free copy of my upcoming book Shining in the Dark: Celebrating Twenty Years. Read more here
Entertainment spoke to Diane Johnson () and Jan Harlan () about their work on Kubrick’s The Shining and I must say that they got a lot of interesting information from then. Here are some highlights. For the full article head over to Entertainment Weekly. Diane Johnson: The ending was changed almost entirely because Kubrick found it a cliche to just blow everything up.
Diane Johnson: In the book, nobody gets killed except Jack. And Kubrick really thought somebody should get killed — because it was a horror movie. So we weighed the dramatic possibilities of killing off various characters and did different treatments. We actually talked it over in detail the possibility of having different people getting killed.
Even Danny, at one point, was briefly considered for the ending’s tragic victim…
Diane Johnson: In one of the treatments — which has leaked online — Wendy kills Jack in self-defense in the third act. Then Hallorann arrives, and ALSO gets possessed by the hotel and becomes the finale’s surprise “big bad.”
Jan Harlan: Very often crew members asked him, “Can you explain that to me?” And he said, “I never explain anything, I don’t understand it myself. It’s a ghost film!”
Jan Harlan: Stanley wanted to make sure that nobody would ever re-assemble his edit in any other way. All outtakes and unused scenes were systematically destroyed — including negatives and rushes. He himself knew that he would never consider a re-cut. He was someone who lived totally in the present. He never looked back.
Here is also the script for an unreleased end-scene that was cut from the movie.
As you know (and if you didn’t you do now) Lilja’s Library celebrated 20 years last year and I want to celebrate that as much as I can. And you also know that the site wouldn’t be worth anything if no one read it. So, in order to celebrate that I want to involve you.
I want to do something similar to the photos you send in with yourself and one of King’s books but this time I want you to send in a photo of yourself and Lilja’s Library. Lilja’s Library you might ask? Yes, take a photo of yourself and Lilja’s Library in some form. It could be you in front of the computer (where you can see Lilja’s Library), it could be a photo of you and my book, it could be a photo of you and your tattoo of Marv (if anyone has one), or any other form of Lilja’s Library. Draw Marv and pose with him, read the site on your phone and take a photo of you doing it…your imagination is the limit. The rule is that Lilja’s Library and you need to be in the photo (and not just a toe or a finger, your face at least). That’s it. Not to hard right?
And to make it even more fun, one of you that send in a photo will get a prize. I will draw the photo I like the best (what I like is for me to know and you to find out) as the winner. If you have already sent a photo and think: "darn I should have been more creative", then just send another one. The prize is a copy of my upcoming anthology Shining in the Dark: Celebrating Twenty Years of Lilja’s Library that's released later this year.
OK, so start sending in your photos, either by email to info[a]liljas-library.com or post them on facebook or twitter. I will then pull them from there and post them on the site.
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Within 24 hours of its CinemaCon debut on Wednesday, the trailer for New Line/Warner Bros. upcoming Stephen King feature adaptation It smashed global traffic records with 197 million views, blowing past the previous record of 139M set by Universal’s The Fate of the Furious back in December.
Cemetery Dance will publish a limited edition of Sleeping Beauties. Here is all the available info from Richard Chizmar.
First, I’m extremely excited to report we will be publishing a special edition of SLEEPING BEAUTIES by Stephen King and Owen King. I cannot say more at this time, other than we’ve already read this massive novel and we’re incredibly thrilled to be able to publish it in three different deluxe editions. Details to come later this year, and again, we’re not accepting reservations yet, but we expect this one to sell out in record time. (And yep, that’s a photo of the manuscript!)
The Dark Tower movie has been pushed forward one week and will now premier August 4.
In The Dark Tower, the mythical, shadowy edifice they’re chasing is also elusive. It exists in a trans-dimensional state, and pinning it down to a specific time and place can be difficult.
The same is true of the movie. It just moved back another week, to Aug. 4.
But now, EW has learned The Dark Tower is indeed abandoning the July 28 date, switching places with Sony’s animated The Emoji Movie.
A Sony spokesperson says the studio “will not move” the date again and that this latest one-week push was done to give The Emoji Movie “more summertime play” before school returns to session and less to do with The Dark Tower, which won’t be as reliant on young viewers.
Sources tell EW a trailer release is imminent, so stay tuned as we prepare to join Roland in our journey to the tower.
King and Joe Hills story Throttle (inspired by the classic Richard Matheson short story Duel will be a movie.
Producer Emile Gladstone and his A Bigger Boat Productions have optioned the story and set John Scott III, the writer of the 2015 Arnold Schwarzenegger zombie movie 'Maggie,' to pen the screenplay.
Looks like King and Hill's collaboration Throttle will be a movie.
Producer Emile Gladstone and his A Bigger Boat Productions have optioned the story and set John Scott III, the writer of the 2015 Arnold Schwarzenegger zombie movie 'Maggie,' to pen the screenplay.
Throttle, the novella by Stephen King and his son, novelist Joe Hill, is getting the big-screen treatment.
Producer Emile Gladstone and his A Bigger Boat Productions have optioned the story and set John Scott III, the writer of the 2015 Arnold Schwarzenegger zombie movie Maggie, to pen the screenplay.
Taking its inspiration from the classic Richard Matheson short story Duel, Throttle tells of a motorcycle gang riding across a stark Nevada desert, after a deal gone bad, who become pursued by a faceless trucker hell-bent on revenge. The main thrust of the story is the relationship between a father and son.
The story was originally published in 2009 as part of a Matheson tribute.
Quint saw the first Dark Tower footage at CinemaCon and says it's kind of a fuckin' bummer. Read his thoughts here.
I hope my nervousness surrounding this footage is unfounded and let me tell you that there'll be no one happier than me if I leave that theater at the end of July with a big ol' grin on my face, but based on the few minutes I saw today I'm less optimistic of that happening than I was before.
The first look at The Dark Tower came this Monday during Cinemacon, the annual gathering of cinema owners from around the globe and Hollywood studios who come to Las Vegas to show their wares. Here is a recap of what was shown.
Now you can pre-orderThe Eyes of The Dragon Art Portfolio
If you want to know about how it came to be, listen to the latest Stephen King Podcast where we interview both Paul and David. And here you can win a signed poster.
TMZ recently caught up with Finn Wolfhard and asked about the young actor’s experience with filming IT and what fans should expect from the movie released this September:
“It was really intense but it was a lot of fun. We tried to take a lot from the book and hopefully people will like it as much (as the mini-series). It’s so intense because we’re on this set in the middle of nowhere, and you’re getting spit on, and screamed at, and blood is pouring on you.”
Wolfhard also went on to admit that he himself, is actually afraid of clowns. In which case, should bring a fantastic performance from the actor in the movie.
Here is another of those cool Storyboards from IT that we have seen earlier and this one is just as cool as the previous. Can you imagine having one of these on your wall at home?
Also, Benjamin Wallfisch has been hired to score IT.
- Ratings: 14A (Suitable for viewing by persons 14 years of age or older. Persons under 14 must be accompanied by an adult. May contain violence, coarse language, and/or sexually suggestive scenes.)
Christian Torpe is the creator, executive producer and showrunner for the upcoming TV series The Mist that premiers on Spike on June 22nd. I got an exclusive interview with him about the show, about Stephen King and how he wanted to stay true to the essence of King’s work while adapting the story. Here is what he had to say.
Here is a better look at the Empire photo of Pennywise.
There’s supposed to be a less-is-more thing in horror. It’s like you’re not really meant to show the monster. But Pennywise is different. With Pennywise, it’s like, ‘This is the monster, I’m showing it to you… and you’re going to shit a brick.’
- Andy Muschietti
It’s contest time here at Lilja’s Library again. This time it’s three (3) copies of Gwendy’s Button Box at stake. Each copy will be signed by Richard Chizmar and all you need to do to enter is answer these three questions.
Today is Gwendy’s Button Box Day at Lilja’s Library. First out is my review of the book but keep checking back as other things will happen during the day.
It’s contest time here on Lilja’s Library again and this time it’s a joint contest with Suntup Editions. The prize is a color promotional poster for The Eyes of the Dragon Art Portfolio signed by David Palladini.
To enter the contest, you need to subscribe to Suntup Edition’s mailing list (you can do that here) and also answer one simple question that you will find in The Stephen King Podcast #70.
You got until March 31 to send in your answers and you should send them by mail.
This is a special episode indeed! Not only we were fortunate to have two great guests join us - David Pallandi who did the wonderful illustrations for Eyes Of the Dragon but also Paul Suntup who is working with David to create a limited edition art portfolio of the illustrations from Viking edition The Eyes of the Dragon.
You can see other examples of David's work at his website - David Palladini
Paul Suntup previously created wonderful rebound versions of Firestarter and Eyes of the Dragon which you can see the production of here - Dragon Rebound Editions
Details on The Eyes of the Dragon Art Portfolio can be found here - Suntup Editions
Contest! Listen to the podcast to find out how to win a poster. You have to listen to this podcast to find out how to enter.
But that's not all! The first Dark Tower movie poster has been revealed! Hans and Lou compare notes and reactions to it.
So yeah, this episode is a real corker!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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