LATEST NEWS
Mike Flanagan sees his adaptation of The Dark Tower as an 8 seasons TV series and he intends to do them as the books and following the outline and structure that King provide with the source material. Flanagan explained that King's structuring is "genius," beginning simply with two characters, the Man in Black and the Gunslinger, in a vague desert landscape before gradually building and expanding on the franchise's massive universe "one brick at a time."
"The problem with the other approaches is people who try to jump in in the middle, or people who try to jump in at a different point. Because you can't throw an audience face-first into this huge universe. It's overwhelming. King did it right, he walked you in starting with two people and nothing else, and walks you one step at a time. So my adaptation was that. It was just doing the books, and doing them in order."
One challenge could be to get the audience to accept the series leaving the main story and Eddie, Susannah, Jake and Oy for a season while doing Wizard and Glass and then again with The Wind Through The Keyhole.
My Portuguese publisher Darkside Books has announced the Portuguese edition of my books Stephen King: Not Just Horror and Stephen King: Stories From Five Decades of Storytelling. Both books have been collected in one book called Almanaque Stephen King. The release is November 18 and if you order from their site you’ll get some extra stuff (see image and more info on the publisher's site).
Hans-Åke Lilja isn’t just an exceptional Stephen King fan. He’s the creator of one of the world’s leading resources on the author, and now he’s back at DarkSide® Books ALMANAQUE STEPHEN KING is a book that reveals behind-the-scenes insights, exclusive interviews, trivia, and perspectives that only someone who has dedicated decades to King could provide.
A complete immersion into the worlds created by King, this DarkSide® edition is a compilation of two works: “Not Just Horror” and “Stories from Five Decades of Storytelling”. In this book, you’ll learn a little more about the genius, the creative process, and the generosity of this colossal author. From the same mind that organized the “Antologia Macabra”, the ALMANAQUE STEPHEN KING also features photographs and illustrations, as well as a detailed chronology of the writer, who continues to produce unforgettable works. An edition for shining fans who wish to delve into the mind of the master of horror.
For more info check out Darkside Books.
Joe Hill mention his upcoming book Hunger in his last info mail and now it looks like it will be released in June 2027:
When is that novel coming out? It was May. Then it was September. Looks like now it’s going to be June 2027. The game of trying to find the right week to release isn’t limited to publishing… this exact same thing happened with the release of the first Black Phone movie. The ball dings around the roulette wheel, catching here, and then there, before finally settling into its proper socket. For what it’s worth, I think we’re sticking at June.
He also mention that he's finishing up a spooky story, he won't say much about it yet though...
I’m finishing up a spooky story of my own, but I won’t say anything about it. You don’t start boasting about the fish you’ve caught before you’ve reeled it in. Hopefully I’ll get it done before I slip out of here for London. Maybe I better get back to it.
In the printer version of the Locus interview King mentions an idea for a Haunted House story…
"It's interesting'; that's the curse of the writing class: This thing is interesting, that thing is interesting, and you gotta do it. I get offered a lot of things, Jack Bender came to me and said – he did From, and he's got The Institute on MGM+ – 'Do you have any good haunted house stories? I said, 'I do have this one idea....
Sounds interesting. Let’s hope it happens.
In the printed interview in Locus King confirmed that Anything For Holly will be released in 2027.
"And I've got a new Holly book that will come out in 2027, and that finishes that. I thought I was done; I thought, 'Well, I finished The Talisman and I finished The Dark Tower series in T3. I finished the Holly books because I put a button on those, and I thought, 'Well, I'm done. I'm retired. But the world... it doesn't work that way. People come along and they say, 'Would you like to try and do this? Would you like to try to do that?' My mother used to say, 'Stephen, if you were a girl, you'd always be pregnant.'
MORE RECENT NEWS
