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31 Days of Ghosts: Stephen King « Turn the Page →

The earlier quote which I posted from the Dark Tower series was all about this.  A sort of obsession I had with Stephen King in my late teens to early twenties.

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.” The Dark Tower series

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Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe. Imagine if you like, Frankenstein’s monster on its slab. Here comes lightening, not from the sky but from a humble paragraph of English words. Maybe it’s the first really good paragraph you wrote, something so fragile and yet full of possibility that you are frightened. You feel as Victor Frankenstein must have when the dead conglomeration of sewn-together spare parts suddenly opened its watery yellow eyes. Oh my God, it’s breathing, you realize. Maybe it’s even thinking. What in hell’s name do I do next?

Stephen King - On Writing

Stephen King, On Writing (via not-an-exit)

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Famous Authors’ Signatures

Left (top to bottom):

Harper Lee, George Orwell, Ray Bradbury, Salinger, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, James Joyce, Edgar A Poe, T.S. Eliot, Stephen King

Right (top to bottom):

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Pablo Neruda, A. Conan Doyle, E. Hemingway, Aldous Huxley, Mark Twain, T. Capote, Walt Whitman, H.P. Lovecraft

(I wish I had a beautiful signature. I sign in cursive with the hand of a child)

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Fuck you. My blog is quality now.

Aww, look at my Edgar’s. And Oscar’s. [:

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totalfilm: Universal turn down Ron Howard’s adap of The Dark Tower Universal have bailed on the ambitious multi-media adaptation of Stephen King’s seven-book series The Dark Tower.Previously, director Ron Howard had painstakingly set out a game plan with the studio that involved turning the books into three movies and two seasons of a TV show.Just last month, Universal stalled the project, and requested that Howard, his producer Brian Grazer and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman find a way to tighten the project’s budget.Now the studio have ditched the project entirely, balking at the costs involved in such a grand undertaking. But could another studio come to the rescue? One could only hope!

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Universal turn down Ron Howard’s adap of The Dark Tower

Universal have bailed on the ambitious multi-media adaptation of Stephen King’s seven-book series The Dark Tower.

Previously, director Ron Howard had painstakingly set out a game plan with the studio that involved turning the books into three movies and two seasons of a TV show.

Just last month, Universal stalled the project, and requested that Howard, his producer Brian Grazer and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman find a way to tighten the project’s budget.

Now the studio have ditched the project entirely, balking at the costs involved in such a grand undertaking. But could another studio come to the rescue?

One could only hope!

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poeatpalabrat: theomphalos: totalfilm: Stephen King makes a stand against The Stand movie Stephen King’s novels are lighting Hollywood on fire right now, with Dark Tower, Firestarter, Pet Sematary and The Stand all due for big screen reimaginings. What does the horror author think of it all? Well, he’s not particularly pleased about The Stand getting a new version, that much is clear.Having already written his own definitive 1994 mini-series based on the massive tome, which was directed by Mick Garris, King is uber-cynical about a movie version. “No one will be able to top Gary Sinise, who played Stu Redman in the original ABC miniseries. “He was perfect,” the author writes in a reactionary column for Entertainment Weekly. Stephen King is a rambling motherfucker. You know how you recreate a Stephen King book as a two hour movie? You cut out the 80% that has nothing to do with the main storyline.  How dare you question the King! (Hold me back, people, hold me back…) There are still a lot of things in a Stephen King book that gets cut for the movie.  I read Lawnmower Man, and then saw the movie.  The movie was crap compared to the book, however, if I’d seen the movie first I might think the movie was great.  Yet, the book was a thousand times better.  King’s small nuances in each of his novels makes for a terrific read, and something very difficult to translate into a movie.

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Stephen King makes a stand against The Stand movie

Stephen King’s novels are lighting Hollywood on fire right now, with Dark Tower, Firestarter, Pet Sematary and The Stand all due for big screen reimaginings. What does the horror author think of it all? Well, he’s not particularly pleased about The Stand getting a new version, that much is clear.

Having already written his own definitive 1994 mini-series based on the massive tome, which was directed by Mick Garris, King is uber-cynical about a movie version. “No one will be able to top Gary Sinise, who played Stu Redman in the original ABC miniseries. “He was perfect,” the author writes in a reactionary column for Entertainment Weekly.

Stephen King is a rambling motherfucker. You know how you recreate a Stephen King book as a two hour movie? You cut out the 80% that has nothing to do with the main storyline. 

How dare you question the King!

(Hold me back, people, hold me back…)

There are still a lot of things in a Stephen King book that gets cut for the movie.  I read Lawnmower Man, and then saw the movie.  The movie was crap compared to the book, however, if I’d seen the movie first I might think the movie was great.  Yet, the book was a thousand times better.  King’s small nuances in each of his novels makes for a terrific read, and something very difficult to translate into a movie.

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