The Films Of Stephen King (Part 1)
“Carrie Officially A Doubleday Book. $2,500 Advance Against Royalties. Congrats, Kid. The Future Lies Ahead, Bill.” The telegram was sent by editor William Thompson when twenty-six-year-old Stephen King was grading papers at Hampden Academy. It was delivered two years after his wife had taken the unfinished manuscript out of the trash — initially intended to […]
“The World Is Now A Blank Page” Benjamin Cavell Talks ‘The Stand’
“I never regarded The Stand as being a book about a pandemic,” said screenwriter Benjamin Cavell about his timely TV series. “The reason we chose our nonlinear approach to the storytelling – the big driver – was that we didn’t want to make the audience sit through three episodes of the world dying before we […]
“Find Your Way Into The Story” Says Robert Reiner
Actor-writer-director-producer-activist Robert Reiner has no problem being a multi-hyphenate. Reiner first came to fame as a two-time Emmy Award-winning actor on the landmark television series All In the Family. He decided he had many more filmmaking mountains to climb and dabbled in all of them. “If you have some abilities in many areas, you don’t have to be great at anything. […]
The Difficulties in Adapting Stephen King’s Horror for the Screen
Ever since Stephen King became a best-selling author in the 1970s, Hollywood has been eager to adapt his works for the big and small screen. With such a long history, not every adaptation is going to be great, but more have been terrific than one might realize. Few would argue about the classic status of […]
“Scary Stories” Will Frighten Kids, But for Adults, This Isn’t “It”
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, adapted from the popular fictional anthologies written by Alvin Schwartz, has the unenviable timing of opening in the week after the horrible shooting tragedies. Fictional ghost stories can’t hold a candle to the horrors of the real world. PG-13 rated frighteners rarely have the impact of the R-rated […]
