[MovieNews] The Second Coming Of Stephen King

[ApexOversteer]

As Ron Howard's ambitious Movie-TV-Movie-TV-Movie adaptation of King's Dark Tower series ramps up for production, and the hype machine grabs second gear, studios are scrambling to jump on the bandwagon.

"I know.... we'll remake EVERYTHING!"

CBS Films and Warner Brothers have partnered to bring The Stand to cinemas.

Paramount is apparently getting a script draft for Pet Sematary from Matt Greenberg (1408) in the next few days and is looking for a "high-level director" for the project.

Universal is prepping a "reimagining" of Firestarter, with the intention of making Charlie (the girl) "more edgy" and sowing the seeds of a franchise with the film

The DeLaurentis Company is in early development on a remake of Maxium Overdrive.

How long before we can expect a Carrie that is too pretty, a Christine that is an '84 Caprice, or a CGI Cujo? Not far enough, me thinks.

[Chris Fowler]

The Stand was too short as a mini-series. HTF are they going to do it as a movie?

[ApexOversteer]

The Stand was too short as a mini-series. HTF are they going to do it as a movie?

I'm betting that CBS and Warners heard "movie-tv-movie-tv-movie" come out of Ron Howards mouth and went... "hey, that could work for The Stand...

Just don't tell them it could work for The Tommyknockers too...

I'm sure It will be remade as well...

[Gozar]

The Stand was too short as a mini-series. HTF are they going to do it as a movie?

You could do it in 3.5 hours. Maybe 3. My favorite book and lets face it, no movie can hold a candle to the book but I would still love to see them give it a good effort. The TV miniseries was pretty good but I know it can be done much better.

"There's rats in the corn!"

[ApexOversteer]

You could do it in 3.5 hours. Maybe 3. My favorite book and lets face it, no movie can hold a candle to the book but I would still love to see them give it a good effort. The TV miniseries was pretty good but I know it can be done much better.

"There's rats in the corn!"

The mini-series was weak, thin and watery at 5 and something hours, accounting for ad breaks. I'm not saying it wasn't good, I mean Budwieser still gets you drunk, right?

This story demands something at least as dense and true to the source as LOTR and that still dumped a bunch of stuff from the novels.

I'd like to see 12 hours, at least. I'm not going to get it, of course. I don't see anyone in Hollywood believing in the story enough to bankroll four 3 hour movies filmed back to back to back, how I would make this.

A real 6 hours might be enough, but maybe we'll get lucky and get 9...

[ApexOversteer]

Stephen King has given us 10 things he knows about the remake of The Stand...



1. No one will be able to top Gary Sinise, who played Stu Redman in the original ABC miniseries. He was perfect. When he says “You don’t know nothing” to the soldiers who are putting him under mandatory quarantine, you believe his contempt completely. My runner-up pick would be Jake Gyllenhaal.

2. I didn’t know anything about the remake until I read about it on the Internet.

3. You absolutely can’t make it as a two-hour movie. If it was a trilogy of films…maybe.

4. Molly Ringwald won’t be playing Fran Goldsmith this time.

5. Rutger Hauer is a little too old to play the Walkin’ Dude, and that’s too bad.

6. People who’ve seen Kubrick’s The Shining dislike the miniseries I wrote (and my amigo Mick Garris directed) even if they haven’t seen it. That’s always annoyed me. But the wheel of karma turns! This time people will probably say, “The miniseries was lots better.” BUT…

7. …historically speaking, movie studios blow the budget on things like this, so maybe it’ll be fun to look at. The dough certainly isn’t going to me, although if it is a trilogy, and if it makes a lot of money, I might be able to buy a chicken dinner at Popeye’s. Great slaw!

8. Molly Ringwald will probably not play the Trashcan Man, either, but Billy Bob Thornton would be cool. Billy Bob’s always cool.

9. They need to write in a lot of heavy-metal for the soundtrack.

10. M-O-O-N, that spells “you probably won’t see this anytime soon.” And when you do, Woody Allen won’t be directing it. Or Molly Ringwald.

[thkauffman]

Stephen King has given us 10 things he knows about the remake of The Stand...

:lolsmile:

So, he didn't like Molly Ringworm?? That's okay, Steve, the rest of us didn't, either.

King is a funny man. Slaw!

Remake Pet Sematary?? Might be the dumbest idea yet. Carrie? Dumber.

C'mon, people, let the classics be classics. We saw how bad it was with the "Rear Window" reimagining...

[atomic punk]

:lolsmile:

So, he didn't like Molly Ringworm??
.

ya think? i didn't get that from his comments..

[Noggles]

Man, I'd love to see Cell, The Long Walk, and Under the Dome all become movies.

[nypearson]

Man, I'd love to see Cell, The Long Walk, and Under the Dome all become movies.





:iagree:

[themonk]

The Stand was too short as a mini-series. HTF are they going to do it as a movie?

Filler.

[G8rDMD]

You could do it in 3.5 hours. Maybe 3. My favorite book and lets face it, no movie can hold a candle to the book but I would still love to see them give it a good effort. The TV miniseries was pretty good but I know it can be done much better.

"There's rats in the corn!"

"The rats are his."

[G8rDMD]

Man, I'd love to see Cell, The Long Walk, and Under the Dome all become movies.

:iagree: :cheers: