The Works of Stephen King

[sugarhigh]

Stephen tweeted that a Dark Tower trailer is coming soon! Matthew Mcchonahey makes me want to vomit with rage, while Idris Elba makes me joyous so my emotions are all over the place.

But really, I'm very excited! I hope this movie isn't terrible.

[captain]

I just watched the trailer and hated it. A mash-up of several books, several key characters missing and with the exception of MM, I don't think that anyone else looks well cast.

[Smilla]

I was hoping I was wrong that the Dark Tower movie wasn't a mash up of several books, even though I clearly saw elements from Books Two and Three in there.

I don't know if even MM can save this one for me, fellow fans.

[forever1267]

(I thought we had a Movie thread on The Master)

Somehow, someway, they are planning to adapt The Long Walk, one of the Bachman books, about a dystopian future and a ... game of walking, shall we say.... It's one of his more disturbing works (for being increasingly plausible too) and also a very interior monologue books. It's short and fast and brutal if you have a few hours, and want to read something scary. How this will be a movie I have no idea though.

Meanwhile, they are also remaking Pet Sematary, also a very disturbing tale of, um, life after death, we'll say. Jason Clarke is in the running for the Dad. I'm not sure who I like replacing Fred Gwynne, who was so good in the okay 1989 original.

oh, and also.... Zelda!!!

[scarlet]

The Long Walk is a total Hunger Games precursor. I remember it freaking me OUT when I first read it as a teenager. I think I'll revisit it.

The first Pet Sematary was so, so cheesy and bad, so they can only go up from there.

I'm currently reading Sleeping Beauties, which he co-wrote* with his son Owen. It's got a lot of bad reviews, but I'm about halfway through and I'm mostly enjoying it.

*allegedly. I don't see a lot of his style in it.

[Beeelicious]

Is anyone reading The Outsider? I am listening to it on audible and I keep getting bored. I figured out the "twist" or whatever it is very early on, so unless something major and interesting happens soon, I am gonna consider this one a dud. I am only halfway through so I am hoping I will come back and have a very changed mind soon.
Edited to add I finished it and not a single thing about this book caught me or impressed me. If anything it annoyed me because it pulled in a character from another book and she was trope-y in the first book and even more trope-y (Mary Sue? I need to revisit my terms, but she was annoying and pedantic and predictably perfectly imperfect). It was a slog. I am disappointed. Also, I felt like he was trying to re-write the ending of IT at the end. My mom, however, enjoyed it. She's used to reading all the free kindle books though so her bar is lowered.

[scarlet]

Happy 50th anniversary to Carrie, which was published on 4/5/74. The start of an epic career.