stephen king c/d?

saw that as "Full Dank, No Stars" at first

I've just been reminded of this slightly incongruous reference (one of many tbf) in Riverdale

https://68.media.tumblr.com/a8543fdacb5d4752db7a9cb8c0ba8d02/tumblr_ol78cdHPxj1w5ugijo1_400.gif

I guess the kids are down with the King these days

BTW, Joe Hill's most recent novel, The Fireman, is the most like his dad's work of all his stuff, but it's also really good.

Spike TV is launching a series version of The Mist on June 22.

1) The Mist was actually a really good movie.
2) Remember Under the Dome? Remember how fast it turned to shit? (like, episode 2)
3) Spike TV still exists?

http://io9.gizmodo.com/stephen-kings-firestarter-is-getting-a-movie-remake-1794740863

Lots of Firestarter in Stranger Things.

One of my favorite Stephen King anecdotes was from Dana Gould iirc. He was at a screening of the Descent and noticed that King was also in the audience. Near the end when the hero's hand comes shooting up from out of the earth, Gould said he cringed because it was such a rip-off of the end of Carrie, and King was sitting right there. After the movie he saw King in the lobby and was enthusing to his friend, "And her hand shot out of the ground, just like in Carrie. That was awesome!"

ugh, Firestarter. read that a couple months ago. not nearly enough firestarting imo. pretty boring book with no a lot of payoff.

that's a great story president keyes

Firestarter is the most forgettable King book I've read. I don't understand why it warrants a single adaptation, let alone two.

It's like he was reading Claremont's X-Men and wanted to try his hand at it and didn't realize that it was really not at all his forte.

they just spend so much time locked up in that facility, i'm serious when i say there is very little firestarting or excitement. i'm deep into Cujo now and it's fucking wild - the prose is pulpier and dirtier than the novels surrounding it, he really sounds like a madman.

Haha I just watched Firestarter last week and was startled to realize it is primarily a movie about people being imprisoned in a dumb government facility, and George C. Scott playing this completely bizarre and creepy guy who works there. It was cool whenever she was starting a fire, and decent when the dad guy grimaced and mind-controlled people, but otherwise quite an oddly-structured and sluggish movie.

It's not even a good t dream score for that era

The Dark Tower trailer tomorrow, two snippets up:

http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-gunslinger-and-the-man-in-black-reveal-the-first-tw-1794842076

idgi They're doing the Dark Tower as a movie rather than as a tv series?

that's how i feel about IT... even though they wrapped principal photography before Stranger Things dropped, i get the vibe that it's going to be very much that, I know it's rated R but still

I read IT twice when I was maybe 13/14, and watched the TV miniseries, and that's all I'll ever need of it. (Now the Dark Tower, on the other hand...)

They're doing Dark Tower as both a movie AND a TV series. I think the series is going to be set in the past (adapting Wizard and Glass, I believe).

One of my favorite Stephen King anecdotes was from Dana Gould iirc. He was at a screening of the Descent and noticed that King was also in the audience. Near the end when the hero's hand comes shooting up from out of the earth, Gould said he cringed because it was such a rip-off of the end of Carrie, and King was sitting right there. After the movie he saw King in the lobby and was enthusing to his friend, "And her hand shot out of the ground, just like in Carrie. That was awesome!"

― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Friday, April 28, 2017 5:47 PM (four days ago)

this story is amazing, not least b/c i'm pretty sure that scene from carrie is only in the movie!

They're doing Dark Tower as both a movie AND a TV series. I think the series is going to be set in the past (adapting Wizard and Glass, I believe).

Isn't the TV series vaporware?

I dunno, I thought it was just a forgotten artifact from when Ron Howard was planning to direct, but I read something about it in a recent news item about the movie.

IT really, really calls for like a ten- or twelve-episode streaming season. Suspect a lot of King would really work in that format since he writes so long that movies tend to boil out so much of what makes them feel King-like, or spend so much time cramming in plot points that actually building up the suspense and creepiness of any given scene, or the sense of wrongness about a bend in the path in the woods or whatever, is just impossible.

Dark Tower is probably unfilmable in any format as written since it just careens around so much in terms of genre and tone, and huge portions of it need a profound rethink (almost everything to do with Susannah IIRC). I mean how do you make a series where the first act is a lone silent Clint Eastwood spooky postapocalyptic western plus succubi, then it becomes a merry group adventure on the road from genre exercise to genre exercise, doubles back to Clint Eastwood for a book-length flashback of the olden days, and then turns abruptly into a barrage of fanservice and shoutouts alternating with the characters saving Stephen King from a car crash, and on and on... I mean you could massage some of that out I guess? It's just, like, barely a 'story,' it's not really about anything, just he told some stories and built up affection for the characters so people wanted to see the journey through.

(That said the idea of doing just a single film that's a reinterpretation or heavily altered retelling of some portion or episode of Dark Tower seems like a totally fine idea, just another parallel narrative intersecting King's sprawling metaverse. Plus I love the casting of Elba as Roland so who am I kidding I'll go and see this for sure.)

And here ya go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjwfqXTebIY

omg what should the first s king book i read be

All of them at once.

! if you had to pick ONE tho

xpost Pretty orange & teal-y.

I think I read the first book when it came out but don't remember a thing about it. Is this like "The Neverending Story" with guns?

Read Salem's Lot first, I'd say, or The Dead Zone. Something from the initial star-making run but before he started churning out the verging-on-self-parody material like Christine and Firestarter. Of course, I can't vouch for the last two decades' worth of stuff. I think Dolores Claiborne is the most recent I've read.

Salem's Lot!

Start with Night Shift/short stories.

Night Shift is a great place to start. Varies wildly in style, but some of those stories are absolute classics and everything in there is at least super-readable. I'd do Salem's Lot first though since there are two stories related to it in that collection.

MISERY

one of his best, not very supernatural, the one that got me back into him

this is very exciting. SUMMER OF STEPHEN

Easy there cowboy - save your excitement for the first time you read one of his descriptions of breasts.

Night Shift is my automatic go-to recommendation for a King newbie. If you aren't feeling it with that one, you can safely stop there and say you tried.

Salems Lot is a good pick. Gets you into his pulpy style

verging-on-self-parody material like Christine

Certainly not his best book, but I totally loved Christine.

Yeah, I just read it for the first time last year. I dig the movie but the novel had a whole lot more going on.

! if you had to pick ONE tho

It, hands down

Nonono, stay the hell away from IT!

That was my first King and it really soured me on King.

imo IT is his masterpiece, might as well start there if you have some time on your hands... not that it really takes that long to read, took me a month of leisurely reading

It taken me eternity

You never It.

I agree with 'Salem's Lot and Night Shift as the obvious "first King" contenders. My first was Firestarter, which was fine but in retrospect not his best work.

that trailer.

peter jackson directing or something?

roland deschain is not a fucking power ranger.

That's debatable.