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Desperation is in production right now as a mini series. Being directed by Mick Garris who also directed The Stand, The Shining(97 remake) and Quicksilver Highway.

The Running Man movie made significant changes to the novella. In the book Richards volenteered for the game and the contest took place all over. He had to send video tapes of himself everyday to prove he was still alive and the game lasted 30 days. According to the main man the longest contest was 4 days. he got money for everyday he stayed alive and bonuses for killing the people and police chasing him. The prize was similar to the prize in The Long Walk, a billion dollars and a wish I think.  

I just re-read The Mist i always likes that short story and i think it could make a decent movie on a reasonable budget. I would like to see the govt conspiracy angle dropped though. A way overused plot device imho.


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The Mist, I'm still waiting for it...

Just think -- if the Running Man movie had been like the book, it could have been seen as prophetic of "Reality TV."  (If they made it now, it would look like it was following the trend instead of predicting it.)

Speaking of that, way back in the 70's (before the EVIL that is reality TV really started to spawn) there was a German teleplay ("Das Millionenspiel") loosely based on a Robert Sheckley story (which in turn is believed to be the "inspiration" for the King/Bachman-novel... some people feel that the term "rip-off" would be more accurate. Haven't read the Sheckley story, so I can't really comment on that).

It was aired more or less in a mockumentary way (a popular TV show host played the TV show host and so on) and many viewers considered it to be real (some folks even applied as contestants). Since noone bothered to ask Sheckley for the TV rights (and he DID find out about it) it was shelved for almost thirty years until its first re-run a couple of weeks ago (where I, of course, missed it).

The prophets did their job - but noone listened to them...

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Susan wrote:
> They might have to
> break them down like that Twilight zone movie

King stories are pretty entertaining in an anthology format, such as Creepshow or Cat's Eye.

"Reality TV."

I'm not sure why 'reality' shows are called that.  They artifically bring a bunch of people together and put them in a very contrived situation..that's not exactly 'reality'

I thought Apt Pupil would make a good movie. I was pretty disappointed with the piece of crap that was made. If anyone decided to make a more faithful adaptation of the story, it would be a nice disturbing little film.

What did you expect from Apt Pupil, if David Schwimmer is in it, it is bound to suck.


It is interesting that for being such a great author, King movies usually suck.  Even the scripts he writes tend to be lame (like the Storm of the Century).

They are also coming out with a King movie soon starrinjg Morgan Freeman. I think it is called Dreamcatcher and it concerns aliens. I haven't read the book, but I was unimpressed by the preview for sure. Anyone else know more about this?

I want to see Insomnia made into a film.  I found it a very interesting read.  Another thing that would be great would be The dark Tower series (if it ever gets finished).  A saga along the lines of The Lord of the Rings in terms of quality.

>Which book is the Salem's Lot sequal in??

Nigh Shift. This book also contains the stories that were the basis for Graveyard Shift, The Mangler, Maximum Overdrive (Trucks), Sometimes They Come Back, The Lawnmower Man (really nothing to do with the movie), Quitters, Inc. (one of the segments of Cat's Eye), and Children of the Corn.

Amazon has it used for like $.80 right now.

Afraid not.  I've been hearing that for years and years but it's never happened.  Although it would be a dream come true, some of it would be completely unfilmable.

One of King's most redundant, stupid, and contrived books.  It's everything he's ever written and it's not that great.  Take every King book, mush them together, add a few aliens and the government and you have Dreamcatcher.  Why this is being made into a film, I have no idea.  Hopefully the script will be better than the book.....

I believe that Bag Of Bones would be a fantastic film.  It adds a few new twists on the supernatural/ghost genre and has a heartfelt and warm core that only King can create.  Would be really scary if done correctly...especially the old guy in the weird wheelchair....

My wife believes that Rage would be a good flick.  I've never read the story, but might soon in the future.

I doubt Rage will ever make it to the screen. It is about a high-schooler who kills two of his teachers and more or less takes his class hostage at gunpoint. great story but it will never make it to the screen.





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I think that it would be interesting to do kind of a "4 rooms" style movie with some of his shorter stories.....one id really like to see made into a film, however short, is "Rainy Season"

I would love to see "The Mist" made as a movie!!!

I personally have a soft spot for teh undying COTC series.

Rage would make for a tremendous film . . . As would The Long Walk for that matter. Too bad the mainstream public would be too damn braindead to accept it.

An adaptation of The Running Man that's truer to the novella would be great as well.

The Mist would make for a scary as Hell movie if they pull it off correctly. I remember they actually made a game based on the story that was text based and it alone was pretty creepy.

I also wouldn't mind seeing film adaptations of Nona, The Jaunt (would be pretty short but the ending would be tremendous on film) and Battlefield. (This was tailor-made to be adapted as a stop-motion film.)

And yes, The Dark Tower series should definately be made into a long cable mini-series much like the recent "Taken" (The Dark Tower should NOT be produced by Sci-Fi, though. This story actually deserves to be told in such a way that wont bore the living s**t out of people.)

The problem with "The mist" ending up as a movie is it might end up like "The langoliers". (made for tv) For me, what makes most of the lower grade stephen king movies suck is the badly chosen actors. Like people i'd see on a movie of the week in 1981. I'm still in shock "Dreamcatcher" made it to the big screen. These kind of movies are slowly giving him a bad name. He used to have good luck with oddball stories in the early days making it to the big screen but as of late the only on screen adaptations people want are his "drama" pieces...the rest end up on ABC

>The Mist would make for a scary as Hell movie if they pull it off correctly. I
>remember they actually made a game based on the story that was text based
>and it alone was pretty creepy.

I happen to have this in both Apple and IBM (DOS) versions if anyone wants them. I finally found them on the net a couple years ago after hunting for the apparently non-existant C64 version for years.

I tried playing that game after downloading it from a shareware site, but I never got anywhere in it.  I always ended up getting killed by some old lady and a mob (I think).  Having never read the short story, I wasn't sure what I was supposed to do.

>I tried playing that game after downloading it from a shareware site, but I never
>got anywhere in it. I always ended up getting killed by some old lady and a mob

I didn't get very far in it either.

>(I think). Having never read the short story, I wasn't sure what I was supposed to
>do.

I've read the novella, it doesn't help. In the story, the main character is trapped in a supermarket by the mist and there are weird creatures outside that kill people when they leave the store. In the end, several characters make it to an SUV and hit the road looking for help or an explanation.

The game suffered from the same problem many other text adventures had; too many locations seem to have no purpose, or the game doesn't really let you know what's important and what isn't. Are you supposed to figure out a way to open the safe, or is that just part of the background description? Do the other characters serve a purpose or are they just there for atmosphere?

I would love to have  this but which one could I read on Windows/???

>I would love to have this but which one could I read on Windows/???

The IBM version will play in a DOS window. It's 90K zipped. The Apple version is a disk image that should play in any Apple/Apple II emulator that supports .DSK files. That version is about 85K zipped. I'd recommend the IBM/DOS version though. Give me an email address and I'll send you a copy.

go ahead and send it to bolicked@jmu.edu
I really appreciate it

If anyone can figure out this game, let me know.  I will be really impressed.  I remember finding some kind of hints on it, on the Net, but I didn't read them because I wanted to try to figure it out.  And like with every other text game I've ever played, I failed.

>go ahead and send it to bolicked@jmu.edu

It's on its way.

>I really appreciate it

No problem. :)

>If anyone can figure out this game, let me know. I will be really impressed. I
>remember finding some kind of hints on it, on the Net, but I didn't read them
>because I wanted to try to figure it out. And like with every other text game I've
>ever played, I failed.

Well, I didn't do that well with The Mist when I tried to play it either. Maybe I'll give it another try.

Have you played the classic Infocom games like Zork, Infidel, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? I have copies of them all and you can now play them on virtually any OS using a freeware interpretor for them.

I have bought some Infocom one's from Target one time.  They came in with like 4 or 5 on one CD.  The only one I had any success with was one where the games centered all around mysteries.  Then, I found a shareware site, and I downloaded a few more - a couple of James Bond one's (Gold Finger and another one) and a Rambo one.

There's a whole 'community' now for 'interactive fiction'. Freely downloadable games that range from well written epics to garbage that you're not even sure can be solved.

I heard that rose madder was being adapted for the small screen. anyone have any info on that? i liked the story but it got a little to convoluted at the end for me.



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By the way, I havent received that thing by e mail yet, and I am really anticipating it.

>By the way, I havent received that thing by e mail yet, and I am really anticipating
>it.

I was wondering if you'd gotten it or not. It didn't bounce, but it shouldn't take this long to reach you. I just sent another copy from my mail.com account.

I would like to see the short story "Gray Matter."

Hey Evan, did you ever get copy of the Mist file I sent?

i've always wanted to make a short film influenced by Night Surf, that story is really creepy, i read it recently and i think i understood it a lot more, it seems to have a lot of roots in the whole post-vietnam war/chemical warfare parnoia era.

Yeah, Thanks a lot John

>Yeah, Thanks a lot John

No problem. I just wanted to make sure it finally went through. Let me know if you manage to solve it. :)

how about a sequel to the beloved 80's masterpiece, lol.