Stephen King’s work has been adapted on the big and small screen dozens of times, and the writer has never been shy about naming and shaming the adaptations he doesn’t like. Since director Brian De Palma brou
That, in a nutshell, is the gist of Stephen King’s The Stand. The author’s iconic novel is considered by many to be one of his best works — it has been updated multiple times by King and was adapted into an Emmy Award-winning mini-series by Mick Ga...
The notion of integrating the worlds of horror novelist Stephen King’s stories may have taken a bit of a hit with theunderwhelming performanceofThe Dark Towermovie, but the first trailer for Hulu’sCastle Rocktelevision series suggests that the small screen might hold the key toweaving all of ...
Why we’re excited:Knowing Isaac is starring as Victor Frankenstein and Elordi will play the monster himself is enough to have us seated already. Still, while there have been countless works based on the iconic novel,Guillermo Del Toro—whose vision will come to life at Netflix afte...
First Cow, adapted by Reichardt with frequent collaborator Jonathan Raymond from the latter’s novel "The Half Life," is many things. A simultaneously gentle and unsparing dissection of the formative flaws of capitalism, and thus of the “American dream”; a frontier story which captures the har...
Interestingly,The Standwas previously adapted as a miniseries for ABC in 1994, with King writing the teleplay. It was generally well-received, thoughobviously limited by its budget($6 million per episode, which was a lot back then) and content restrictions for television at the time. By compar...
which also earned Oscar nods for Griffith, Joan Cusack, and Sigourney Weaver (and won the Best Original Song Oscar for Carly Simon’s “Let the River Run”), was adapted into a short-lived series on NBC in 1990, with Sandra Bullock starring as titular working girl Tess McG...
Nevertheless, the Burne-Jones vampire continued to dominate American popular culture thanks in large measure to Porter Emerson Browne’s 1909 novelA Fool There Was, which he quickly adapted for the stage. In 1910, Selig Polyscope produced the moving pictureThe Vampire, which attempted to bring the...
Netflix’s charmless new action movie is a veritable tag cloud of keywords adapted into a lump of generic subscriber bait. Every one of its creative decisions, from the casting to the rat-a-tat snark of the dialogue to the stock on-the-run premise, might have been made by someone in ...
But I thought about it a lot this weekend, after I got the call about Richard's death. Sala is a cartoonist whose work I have enjoyed for years, and I had first discovered him back onLiquid Television, where one of his comics stories was adapted and expanded in the show's first seaso...