The Dark Tower Comic Week Day 2
Posted: April 17, 2007, 01:02
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Read an interview with the editor of The Dark Tower comic Ralph Macchio here.Read an interview with the editor of The Dark Tower comic Ralph Macchio here.NEWS -
Read an interview with the editor of The Dark Tower comic Ralph Macchio here.Robin interviewed
Posted: April 17, 2007, 01:01
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Bachman's authorphoto
Posted: April 16, 2007, 09:01
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The Dark Tower Comic Week Day 1
Posted: April 16, 2007, 00:02
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Read an interview with Marvel’s editor-in-chief Joe Quesada here.Welcome to The Dark Tower Comic Week
Posted: April 16, 2007, 00:00
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Here is all you need to know about it...
Read the complete text
Black House at The Haven Foundation
Posted: April 13, 2007, 23:30
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The April selection of a signed book through The Haven Foundation will be Black House (Hardcover signed by both Stephen King and Peter Straub). The price will be $80 plus shipping. The books will go on sale beginning at 12 noon Eastern Time on April 17th. We have a total of 25 copies available and will be offering them in small lots at random times throughout the day so that they will not sell out within the first 2 minutes of going on sale as they did in January. We do not take pre-orders or telephone orders.
PLEASE NOTE: Anyone who has purchased a signed Stephen King book through The Haven Foundation will not be eligible to purchase another signed copy. We have a one signed book per household lifetime limit in order to give as many people as possible the opportunity to get a signed book.
Ron to read Blaze
Posted: April 13, 2007, 23:02
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Today both Scribner and Hodder & Stoughton confirmed that the narrator for the audio version of Blaze is Ron McLarty. This is very good news if you ask me.Interview with Jae and Robin
Posted: April 13, 2007, 20:59
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Thanks to Bev Vincent
Blaze
Posted: April 11, 2007, 22:26
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Review of Development Hell
Posted: April 10, 2007, 15:17
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Here is my review of Mick Garris Development Hell. You can order your copy of it from Cemetery Dance.Edward Miller illustrations
Posted: April 8, 2007, 13:09
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If your interested in buying the artwork or prints, please contact Edward at les.edwards7@btopenworld.com.
Thanks to Ari
The Pop of King: How to Bury a Book
Posted: April 8, 2007, 01:15
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Here is a new column by King called How to Bury a Book. It's in the April 5 issue of Entertainment Weekly.Thanks to Kim Place.
Second clip from The Mist
Posted: April 4, 2007, 18:32
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My review of issue #3
Posted: April 4, 2007, 00:22
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DT comic clip
Posted: April 2, 2007, 18:35
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Thanks to Bev Vincent
Mrs Todd's Shortcut for TV
Posted: April 2, 2007, 13:26
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Since this was posted on Shocklines, I'll repeat it here: "Mike's also going to be adapting the Stephen King short story Mrs Todd's Shortcut for TV."
Thanks to Bev Vincent
Landon Talks Christine Remake!
Posted: April 2, 2007, 13:25
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Stephen King's hellbent '58 Plymouth Fury, Christine, is back in the shop for some modern retooling, no secret there. However, who are the creative mechanics working under the hood? Word trickled over to us that Disturbia co-writer Christopher Landon may be flirting with the project. In talking with him one-on-one about his latest Dreamworks thriller (he shares screenwriting credit with Carl Ellsworth), Landon was hesitant to delve deep into the subject of a Christine remake, but he did confirm his possible involvement.
"['Christine'] has been all over the place," he says, alluding to the property's travels as a rumored SCI FI Channel Original to Sony and NBC's plans to turn it into an event telepic. "If it happens or not we'll see, but when I came in what I wanted to do was really go back to the book, the source material. I'm a fan of the Carpenter version, it is fun. But the book was much more of a possession story than it was just a killer car. That's what made the book so great is that what was so terrifying was that it wasn't just about an inanimate object running around and killing people, it was a boy who was sorta being taken over by the former owner of the car - and there was something more terrifying about that. Also, I just love the dynamics of the characters and so forth. Right now it's way too soon say anything else about it. We're so in the thick of deal-making, I don't want to blow anything else!"
Fair enough. King's original 1983 novel was turned into a John Carpenter film that same year starring John Stockwell (director of Turistas), Keith Gordon ("Dexter") and Alexandra Paul ("Baywatch"). Not long ago, a remake of the film was announced along with an update of King's Pet Sematary.
Thanks to Bev Vincent
Last visit to The Mist
Posted: April 1, 2007, 00:40
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Papers from The Mist
Posted: March 30, 2007, 22:52
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Even more from The Mist
Posted: March 29, 2007, 16:22
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Thanks to Bev Vincent
More from The Mist
Posted: March 28, 2007, 11:54
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Thanks to Anders Jakobson
Eli Roth talks about Cell
Posted: March 27, 2007, 14:28
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Eli Roth, who will direct the feature-film version of Stephen King's best-seller Cell, told SCI FI Wire that he won the endorsement of the famously finicky author for his version of the story. "My first question when I adapted it was can I deviate from the book?" Roth said in an interview in Beverly Hills, Calif., on March 25 while promoting Grindhouse, in which he has a small part. "It's Stephen King. Am I going to piss off Stephen King? He was mad at Stanley Kubrick [who adapted King's The Shining], I don't want him mad at me. And, finally, Stephen King was like, 'Do whatever you want.'"
Roth (Hostel) and writers Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski are now writing the script for Cell, based on King's apocalyptic book in which a mysterious cell phone "pulse" drives some people insane all over the world, turning them into ravening killers.
Roth said that he would necessarily change elements of King's book, while maintaining other elements. "I love the opening [scene]," Roth said. "But I also want to keep, ... not necessarily that same chaotic tone, but I want to keep the tension of the opening 40 pages of the book going throughout the whole film and introduce other elements. Because I think the book, for me, where it loses tension is where suddenly you don't feel like the phone crazies are trying to kill them. ... I find that it's finding other ways to make it so you still feel the tension that any second you could get killed [and] carrying that throughout the whole film."
Roth, a native of Boston, added that he hopes to shoot the movie in that city, where it is set. And he'd even like to persuade King to make a cameo in the movie, which Roth will begin after he wraps the upcoming sequel Hostel 2.
"If he'd like to, sure," Roth said of a King cameo. "There's always room. That's the good thing about Cell. Because it's like crazy people running around trying to [kill you] It's like everybody gets a cameo."
Thanks to Bev Vincent
Length of Duma Key
Posted: March 27, 2007, 14:26
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Thanks to Mike Smith
Preview of issue #3
Posted: March 26, 2007, 23:37
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More from the set of The Mist
Posted: March 26, 2007, 23:36
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Time to pre-order
Posted: March 26, 2007, 12:15
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Blaze:
US hardback
US audio
UK hardback
UK audio
Duma Key:
US hardback
US audio
UK hardback
UK audio
Gunslinger Born 1-7:
US hardback
My review of Popsy
Posted: March 26, 2007, 12:09
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Here is my review of the Dollar Baby version of PopsyIssue #1 with a new cover
Posted: March 24, 2007, 11:31
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The first issue of The Gunslinger Born gets a second printing with a new cover by Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada.Thanks to Steve Wain
The Mist turns grocery store into horror show
Posted: March 23, 2007, 14:28
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Thanks to Bev Vincent
Webisode from The Mist
Posted: March 23, 2007, 13:05
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Thanks to Anders Jakobson
King as guest editor
Posted: March 22, 2007, 16:16
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Stephen King Guest Editor For 2007 Edition Of "The Best American Short Stories"Stephen King is the editor for the new edition of "The Best American Short Stories," an anthology that is organized by a well-known guest editor each year. King said he picked 20 stories to be featured in the 2007 edition, which will be out in October, after reading more than 400.
King also said the book will contain a list of 100 short stories that weren't chosen for the collection but made the "honor roll."
He wrote in the introduction to the collection: "There isn't a single one ... that didn't delight me, that didn't make me want to crow 'Oh man, you gotta read this!' to someone. I knew it would be that way. That's why I took the job. Talent does more than come out; it bursts out, again and again, doing exuberant cartwheels while the band plays 'Stars and Stripes Forever.'"
The BASS anthology first came out in 1915. Past guest editors include Amy Tan, Raymond Carver, Joyce Carol Oates, Garrison Keillor and John Updike.
Thanks to Bev Vincent
The Dead Zone 5 on DVD
Posted: March 19, 2007, 09:17
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Here are the DVD cover and info for the fifth edition of The Dead Zone:All episodes will be presented in Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1), with Dolby Digital 5.1 audio. Special features include:
"The Other side of the Camera" explores the directorial debut of series stars Chris Bruno (Sheriff Walt Bannerman) and John L. Adams (Bruce Lewis) and how they made the challenging and exciting move to the director's chair for Season Five.
"A Day With JLA” is a guided tour of a typical day on set with series star John L. Adams (Bruce Lewis).
Four Audio Commentaries on:
- Eps #4013 "Articles of Faith" with: Actor/Producer Anthony Michael Hall, DVD Producer Robert Chynoweth, Writer/Supervising Producer Michael Taylor
- Eps #4016 "Revelations" with: Actor/Director John L. Adams, Writer James Morris, Writer Shintaro Shimosawa
- Episode #4014 "Independence Day" with: Director Chris Bruno, Actor Dylan Bruno and Executive Producer Shawn Piller
- Episode #4020 "The Hunting Party" with: Executive Producer Tommy Thompson, Executive Producer Lloyd Segan and Writer Adam Targum
Review of Graduation Afternoon
Posted: March 16, 2007, 22:29
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King about Graduation Afternoon
Posted: March 16, 2007, 14:08
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Stephen King says the following about his story Graduation Afternoon, which appears in Postscripts Magazine, issue 10, due out in late April. If you can't wait until then, the 'magazine' (352 pages, 160,000 words) will be launched at this year's World Horror Convention in Toronto (29 March to 1 April).“When I woke, I slid to the floor, glad to be awake and amazed that any human brain could hold such a powerful image. I know I had to write about it, I know the story had to be short – no more then a vignette – and I know I would never be able to do the image (God, don’t let it be a vision) justice.”
Reason for Guidebook push
Posted: March 16, 2007, 01:45
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"Yeah, the Gunslinger's Guidebook was originally envisioned as a handbook focusing on Roland's Hambry adventure and everything that occurred prior to that. But as Robin Furth and I discussed things in greater detail, we decided that we also wanted to feature profiles on the all-new Mid-World characters who would be debuting for the first time in the comic adaptation following the Hambry story arc . . . characters such as the ferocious General Grissom (of the blue-faced barbarians). So that's the primary reason for the book's delay -- but you'll be getting a superior product packed with much more original content! The wait will be worth it!"
Thanks to Bev Vincent
Spielberg go French?
Posted: March 15, 2007, 09:24
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It looks like Spielberg has gotten the poster for The Talisman from a French edition of the book. Here is the book cover.Thanks to Jerome Luc Paulin
Guidebook pushed forward
Posted: March 14, 2007, 22:59
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Pre-order Duma Key...the UK ed.
Posted: March 14, 2007, 22:50
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UK hardback
January 10, 2008
UK audio
January 10, 2008
UK paperback
November 13, 2008
Thanks to John Hanic
The Talisman poster?
Posted: March 14, 2007, 22:48
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The Talisman is now listed on Spielbergs site and there you can also find the following illustration.Thanks to Bev Vincent
The Talisman as both a miniseries and a TV series?
Posted: March 14, 2007, 11:37
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Turner Broadcasting System executives told advertisers that The Talisman, a limited series from Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks Television that will air on TNT in 2008, could become a series in 2009, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The announcement was made March 6 at New York's Museum of Modern Art. It was part of a presentation on TBS, TNT, Court TV, Turner's broadband site Super Deluxe and Turner Sports.
Spielberg will executive-produce a six-hour miniseries based on Stephen King and Peter Straub's best-selling supernatural thriller The Talisman for the summer of 2008, with DreamWorks Television producing. Spielberg, who produced Into the West for TNT, will be joined by his longtime partner Kathleen Kennedy as executive producer, along with Ehren Kruger (Skeleton Key, The Ring), who will adapt the King/Straub novel. Darryl Frank, who heads up DreamWorks Television, will be co-executive producer, along with Justin Falvey.
The Talisman, which was published in 1984, marked the first collaboration between King and Straub. It tells the story of Jack Sawyer, a boy who goes on a quest through this world and through a parallel world known as "The Territories" on a mission to obtain a mysterious talisman that will save his dying mother's life and that of her "twinner," the Queen of the Territories.
Thanks to Bev Vincent
Hodder to release Blaze and Duma Key
Posted: March 14, 2007, 11:29
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ANNOUNCING PUBLICATION OF TWO NEW STEPHEN KING NOVELS ....
Hodder & Stoughton is delighted to announce the acquisition from Chuck
Verrill at Darhansoff, Verrill, Feldman and Arthur B Greene respectively of two new books by Stephen King.
The first, a Richard Bachman novel, BLAZE, will be published as a hardback
in June 2007 with a Foreword by Stephen King. This 'lost' Bachman book,
written in 1973 rediscovered last autumn amongst King's papers - lodged at
the Universaity of Maine's Fogle Library. Originally deemed by him to be
too 'sweet', compared to the other Bachman novels, BLAZE was put on hold.
Upon re-reading it over thirty years later, however, King realised it has
surprising strength - a crime story both charming and suspenseful. It is
with great pleasure that Hodder will publish it for the first time ever
alongside the re-designed Bachman back-list titles: THE REGULATORS, THINNER,
THE RUNNING MAN and THE BACHMAN BOOKS.
The second new book by Stephen King, DUMA KEY, will be published also in
hardcover, in January 2008. This stunning novel comes hot on the heels of
King's huge bestseller, LISEY'S STORY, and tells the story of a man who
discovers an incredible talent for painting, after a freak accident makes
him change his way of life. But the paintings themselves become eerily
predictive - and even dangerous to those who buy them. King's mastery of
suspense and narrative drive have never been stronger.
Colorado ARC
Posted: March 13, 2007, 00:11
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Thanks to John Hanic
New interview
Posted: March 12, 2007, 23:20
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Thanks to Dean Jones, Ari and Chris Barna
Pictures from The Mist
Posted: March 11, 2007, 22:56
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Enjoy these and stay tuned...Frank said more was coming.
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The Pop of King: All In Good Fun
Posted: March 9, 2007, 23:41
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Thanks to Paul Poroshin
JJ Abrams and The Tower
Posted: March 9, 2007, 00:20
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Wired News: Turning to your Stephen King project for a second, The Dark Tower wasn't well-received by most critics or even some die-hard Stephen King fans. What attracts you to the project?
Abrams: This is something that we are just now talking about with Stephen, so it's too early for me to say that we're even officially doing it yet just because the thing is in the early stages of discussion. I love what the The Dark Tower is. Damon Lindelof is obsessed (with it). We met Stephen, who was just the greatest, and hit it off. What's exciting to me about it is that it is a very edgy epic. You could . . . say it's his Tolkien Ring series, but I feel like it has a potential of being a lot more. I think that sense of that great hero, that sort of Western, iconic, almost spaghetti-Western-type hero in this landscape is just an amazing -- it feels iconic to me.
Thanks to Bev Vincent
More Blaze
Posted: March 8, 2007, 16:32
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"Blaze is the story of a giant, mentally challenged man who decides to kidnap a baby and hold it for a $1 million ransom. The novel flips back and forth between the current story of Blaze's kidnapping and flight from the law to stories of his abusive past. There's another character named George, who is Blaze's best friend; it's George who actually convinces Blaze to kidnap the baby. The only problem is, George may or may not be dead, and thus be a psychological manifestation ... or perhaps a ghost."
Thanks to Neil Jarvis
Remake of Children of the Corn?
Posted: March 8, 2007, 16:27
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Dimension has been trying to get the “Children of the Corn” back in the summery fields – and theaters – for forever and a day. Finally, It looks like the lil’ blonde bastards may be returning to work.
A few years back, screenwriter Joe Harris (“The Tripper”) was attached to pen a new sequel to the George Goldsmith-penned original… but the plan fell through like a president’s promises.
Now, according to IESB, the plan is to remake the first film - which starred a pre-Terminator Linda Hamilton - with “Saw 3” helmer Darren Lynn Bousman attached to direct. Though the studio, or Bousman’s reps, won’t confirm the news… it sounds like the report is as solid as frozen yogurt.
I haven’t seen the original film in years – maybe a decade – but I did recently pick up a copy of the film for about $2 at a video store closing down sale. I really should give it a look again. From memory, it wasn’t a bad film.
Based on the short story by Stephen King, “Corn” told of a boy preacher named Isaac who goes to a town in Nebraska called Gatlin and gets all the children to murder every adult in town.
Ya know what? For once, I think I’d rather a straight-up remake here… rather than just another sequel. The “Children of the Corn” sequels they were churning out (most of them, direct-to-video) were just bullshit. Near unwatchable. The original film is getting a bit long in the tooth too, so it could probably do with a make-over. Heck, if I don’t remember it that well… then chances are everyone under the age of say, 30, doesn’t remember it at all.
Thanks to Bev Vincent
King spills guts
Posted: March 8, 2007, 16:26
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Thanks to Bev Vincent
Michael Marshall adapting King
Posted: March 7, 2007, 16:04
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At the moment, I'm about to start a television adaptation of a Stephen King short story, and am co-writing and co-producing a feature adaptation of my short story 'Hell Hath Enlarged Herself'.
No word on what story it is or for what channel though. Stay tuned for more…
Thanks to Bev Vincent
