Variety reports that a new movie based on The Tommyknockers is in the making.
Stephen King’s “The Tommyknockers” is being developed as a movie by producers James Wan and Roy Lee.
Wan, who’s directing “Aquaman” and produces “The Conjuring” franchise, will produce through his Atomic Monster company. Lee, whose credits include “It,” the Lego movies, and “The Departed,” will produce through Vertigo Entertainment. The duo has teamed up with Larry Sanitsky, who executive produced the 1993 ABC miniseries adaptation of “The Tommyknockers,” starring Jimmy Smits and Marg Helgenberger.
The producers began shopping the package to studios through Paradigm on Thursday.
Bloody Disgusting reports that there is a longer version of The Shining that's not been released. And if you happen to have $12,000 that you don't need you can own the jacket Jack Nicholson used throughout the film.
“Long cut of the original film The Shining containing the scene in which Wendy, played by Shelley Alexis Duvall, carries Danny, played by little Danny Lloyd. These cuts, given by Kubrick to D’Alessandro, are particularly rare because the director notoriously burned all the leftovers at the conclusion of the editing.”
Morgan Freeman, star in The Shawshank Redemption, will present an award to King at the PEN America Literary Gala. King will receive the PEN America Literary Service Award at the bash at the American Museum of Natural History on May 22.
According to Omega Underground a remake of Pet Sematary will start shooting in May in Toronto.
In October, Variety revealed that the studio had hired Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyerto direct the horror film. Jeff Buhler and David Kajganichare penning the script based on the novel by King.
I asked David about it and he didn’t think they were using his script but didn’t know for sure.
To me it seems a bit early to start filming in May when there hasn’t been any casting news at all but we’ll see.
Hodder & Stoughton will release the UK edition of Flight or Fright on September 4th. the book has a new story by King (The Turbulence Expert) and one by Joe Hill (You Are Released).
An anthology of turbulent tales edited by Stephen King and Bev Vincent. This exciting new collection, perfect for airport and aeroplane reading, includes an original introduction and story notes for each story by Stephen King, and brand new stories from Stephen King and Joe Hill.
Please note that the cover is not the final cover.
Children of the Corn: Runaway is out and I have seen it. Read my thoughts here.
It’s good to see that they are going for a twist at the end of the movie and it made me go “ahh..” and then I went back to sleep.
Here is a follow-up to our last podcast about soundtracks. Our guest Bryant Burnette has assembled a collection of YouTube links to soundtracks you might want to check out
Bryant Burnette joins us to discuss soundtrack music composed for cinematic adaptations of Stephen King works.
Plus our recap of the latest Stephen King news.
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4) 22:41 - Reviews from the Night Shift: Music in King Adaptations
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This book has just been announced by Cemetery Dance (book) and Simon & Schuster (audio). Sounds like a really great collection with a new story by both King (The Turbulence Expert) and Joe Hill (You Are Released). The book will be released September 4 and here is all info about it.
By Stephen King and Bev Vincent
#1 New York Times bestselling author and master of horror Stephen King teams up with Bev Vincent to present a terrifying collection of short stories that tap into one of King’s greatest fears—air travel— featuring brand-new stories by King as well as Joe Hill, in addition to fourteen classic tales and one poem from the likes of Richard Matheson, Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, and Dan Simmons.
Stephen King hates to fly.
Now he and coeditor Bev Vincent would like to share this fear of flying with you.
Welcome to Flight or Fright, an anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when you're suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube (like—gulp!—a coffin) with hundreds of strangers. All the ways your trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including some we'll bet you've never thought of before… but now you will the next time you walk down the jetway and place your fate in the hands of a total stranger.
Featuring brand new stories by Joe Hill and Stephen King, as well as fourteen classic tales and one poem from the likes of Richard Matheson, Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, and Dan Simmons, Flight or Fright is, as King says, “ideal airplane reading, especially on stormy descents... Even if you are safe on the ground, you might want to buckle up nice and tight.” This terrifying new anthology will have you thinking twice about how you want to reach your final destination.
Table of Contents:
—Introduction by Stephen King
—“Cargo” by E. Michael Lewis
—“The Horror of the Heights” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
—“Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” by Richard Matheson
—“The Flying Machine” by Ambrose Bierce
—“Lucifer!” by E.C. Tubb
—“The Fifth Category” by Tom Bissell
—“Two Minutes Forty-Five Seconds” by Dan Simmons
—“Diablitos” by Cody Goodfellow
—“Air Raid” by John Varley
—“You Are Released” by Joe Hill
—“Warbirds” by David J. Schow
—“The Flying Machine” by Ray Bradbury
—“Zombies on a Plane” by Bev Vincent
—“They Shall Not Grow Old” by Roald Dahl
—“Murder in the Air” by Peter Tremayne
—“The Turbulence Expert” by Stephen King
—“Falling” by James L. Dickey
—Afterword by Bev Vincent
Here is an update from Cemetary Dance on the US edition of Shining in the Dark:
The books are finished at the printer, but we discovered a major problem when they sent us the final approval copies: the printer completely missed printing and tipping in the interior artwork drawn by Erin S Wells. It's too late for them to fix this, so instead we¹ve created an exclusive chapbook of the artwork that will ship with your book. We think they'll make this special edition even more special!
Apparently Molly has been the inspiration to one (not-yet-published) story about a dog that’s terrified of alligators.
We ask if Molly functions as a muse for the author. “She’s a-MUSEing. But she’s a pain in the ass when I’m writing. She wants to go out and play ball!” Still, Molly has inspired at least one (not-yet-published) Stephen King story about a dog that’s terrified of alligators.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ran an ad during its own event to promote the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, a new museum dedicated to the art and science of movies that’s slated to open on Wilshire and Fairfax in Los Angeles in 2019.
IT star Chosen Jacobs joins the cast of Castle Rock.
The young actor will star as Wendell Deaver, the son of Henry Deaver, played by André Holland. His character has been described as "a death row attorney with a unique and complicated history in the town."
Shining in the Dark is now confirmed for seven editions and here is all the info you need.
The Bulgarian edition:
Release date: November 20, 2017
Edition: Paperback
Order: Pleiad Books Official site
The US edition:
Release date: March 2018
Edition: Hardback (signed by the editor and the cover artist)
Pre-Order: Cemetery Dance and Amazon Official site
King’s poem The Bone Church will be turned into a TV series.
Chris Long and David Ayer’s Cedar Park Entertainment has acquired Stephen King’s The Bone Church and will develop it as a TV series. Cedar Park will be the studio for the project as well. The Bone Church is a narrative poem that King wrote in the 1960s. He later revised it and the poem was published as part of a King anthology, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams. In it, an adventurer organizes an expedition deep into a vast jungle land to locate the mythic Bone Church. They discover a secret not meant for the eyes of strangers. Only three of the 32 travelers escaped with their lives in a tale narrated by one of the survivors, who tells stories from a bar stool to patrons who’ll buy him drinks.
In this article it’s mentioned that Amazon is planing a TV show based on The Dark Tower.
As part of the effort, Amazon made a mega deal for a Lord Of the Rings TV series and is developing a slew of high-profile titles, including The Dark Tower, Wheel of Time, Ringworld, Lazarus and Snow Crash.
Last podcast we looked back at 2017, this time we look ahead at 2018!
Plus our recap of the latest Stephen King news.
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Virginia Kull has been cast in Mr Mercedes.
Virginia Kull is set for a recurring role in Season 2 of AT&T Audience Network’s breakout series Mr. Mercedes. Kull will play Sadie McDonald, a nurse on the neurology ward— known as the “Brain Bucket” — at Mercy General Hospital. An epileptic who has recently gone off her medication, she’s prone to occasional microscopic seizures which pull her away from the task at hand. Her most famous patient is Brady Hartsfield, the infamous Mercedes killer.
Suntup Editions is releasing a limted edition of Misery. Read all about it and be ready to place your orders on February 12.
ABOUT THE EDITION
The Signed Limited Edition of Misery is published in three states: An Artist Gift edition, a Numbered edition and a Lettered edition. All three oversized editions measure 7.5” x 10.5”, and feature eight new full-color illustrations by Rick Berry, whose critically acclaimed work includes the Donald M. Grant editions of The Talisman and Black House by Stephen King and Peter Straub
ARTIST GIFT EDITION
Signed by Rick Berry, the slipcased Artist Gift edition features a dust jacket with stunning wrap-around artwork by Berry. It is a smyth-sewn binding with full imperial cloth, two-hits stamping on front and spine, and is offset printed on Mohawk Superfine Eggshell paper. The gift edition will be highly limited for a Stephen King book, and is the only edition of the three with the wrap-around dust jacket art.
NUMBERED EDITION
The Numbered edition is limited to 200 copies, and is signed by Stephen King and Rick Berry. The first 185 copies are for sale and numbered in black. The remaining 15 copies are numbered in red and reserved for private distribution. It is a full Japanese cloth, smyth-sewn binding featuring a blind stamped front cover, and a leather spine label stamped in 22K gold leaf. The edition is printed letterpress on Cranes Lettra Pearl White cotton paper, and housed in a custom clamshell box.
LETTERED EDITION
The Lettered edition is limited to 26 copies for sale lettered A-Z, and is signed by Stephen King and Rick Berry. It is printed letterpress on moldmade Arches wove paper with a deckled fore edge, and handbound in full crimson goatskin leather. Endpapers are marbled, and made exclusively for this edition. The binding is sewn and rounded with a hollow back designed to prevent sagging fo the page block.
The edition includes an original frontispiece print pulled from a wood engraving by renowned illustrator and designer Barry Moser. The print is limited to 26 copies and is signed by Barry Moser. The title is made using six original Royal glass typewriter keys which are inset into the cover, and the letter designation is a Royal key inset into the lower back cover.
The book is housed in a handmade walnut wood box designed to resemble an original Royal Model 10 packing crate. The case is laser engraved, and features a black suede-lined book bed.
Stephen King's official site has announces 2018's second Stehen King book Elevation. The book will be 144 pages and released on October 30. Elevation
By Stephen King
Release Date: October 30th, 2018
The latest from legendary master storyteller Stephen King, a riveting, extraordinarily eerie, and moving story about a man whose mysterious affliction brings a small town together—a timely, upbeat tale about finding common ground despite deep-rooted differences.
Although Scott Carey doesn’t look any different, he’s been steadily losing weight. There are a couple of other odd things, too. He weighs the same in his clothes and out of them, no matter how heavy they are. Scott doesn’t want to be poked and prodded. He mostly just wants someone else to know, and he trusts Doctor Bob Ellis.
In the small town of Castle Rock, the setting of many of King’s most iconic stories, Scott is engaged in a low grade—but escalating—battle with the lesbians next door whose dog regularly drops his business on Scott’s lawn. One of the women is friendly; the other, cold as ice. Both are trying to launch a new restaurant, but the people of Castle Rock want no part of a gay married couple, and the place is in trouble. When Scott finally understands the prejudices they face – including his own -- he tries to help. Unlikely alliances, the annual foot race, and the mystery of Scott’s affliction bring out the best in people who have indulged the worst in themselves and others.
From Stephen King, our “most precious renewable resource, like Shakespeare in the malleability of his work” (The Guardian), Elevation is an antidote to our divisive culture, as gloriously joyful (with a twinge of deep sadness) as “It’s a Wonderful Life.”
Stephen King has been in the public consciousness for over 40 years now ever since Brian DePalma adapted King's first book - Carrie - as a movie. As with any artist, King's profile has risen and fallen over the years but last year, King hit the latest apex of his popularity. An amazing feat for someone who has been in the game so long!
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Mike Flanagan is set to direct Doctor Sleep the sequel to The Shining. Warner Bros will release it and Flanagan will rewrite Akiva Goldsman's script, Flanagan’s producing partner Trevor Macy will produce along with Vertigo Entertainment’s Jon Berg. Goldsman is executive producer.
Shining in the Dark is now confirmed for six editions and here is all the info you need.
The Bulgarian edition:
Release date: November 20, 2017
Edition: Paperback
Pre-Order: Pleiad Books Official site
The US edition:
Release date: January 2018
Edition: Hardback (signed by the editor and the cover artist)
Pre-Order: Cemetery Dance and Amazon Official site
A Swedish edition of Shining in the Dark (Varsel i Mörket) is being released later this year. It will be financed by a Kickstarter in April and has a release date set for September. It will be in hardback and released in only 666 copies. The cover will be revealed at a later time…
Sad news today! Author Jack Ketchum, whose real name was Dallas Mayr, has passed away at the age of 71 after a long battle against Cancer. I was fortunate to get to know him a little when he allowed me to use his and P.D. Cacek’s story The Net in the anthology Shining in the Dark. You will be missed!
Children of the Corn: Runaway will be out on Blu-ray, DVD, Digital and On Demand on March 13. Check out the trailer.
“Children of the Corn: Runaway tells the story of young, pregnant Ruth, who escapes a murderous child cult in a small Midwestern town. She spends the next decade living anonymously in an attempt to spare her son the horrors that she experienced as a child. Ruth and her son end up in a small Oklahoma town, but something is following her. Now, she must confront this evil or lose her child.”
Omega Underground reports that The Dark Tower TV show is set to start filming this summer in the UK and Ireland.
Now we at Omega Underground have learned that production is expected to begin sometime this summer in both Ireland and the United Kingdom. For obvious reasons expect a brand new cast for the proposed series. It should also be noted no network has yet to pick up the project.
Michael C. Hall will narrate the first ever unabridged recording of Stephen King’s Pet Sematary according to EW. This after a huge demand from fans for an audio book version.
Deadline reports that Tessa Ferrer has been cast as a series regular for season 2 of Mr Mercedes.
Grey’s Anatomy alumna Tessa Ferrer is set as a series regular opposite Jack Huston in Season 2 of AT&T Audience Network’s breakout series Mr. Mercedes. Production begins next month in Charleston, SC, on the Sonar Entertainment-produced Stephen King adaptation.
Ferrer will play Cora Babineau, wife of Dr. Felix Babineau (Huston) and head of marketing at a major pharmaceutical corporation, who’s even more ambitious than she is beautiful. If her husband has a genius for manipulating people from the inside out as he reaches into their brains and rewires them, Cora has a genius for influencing people from the outside in. Her beauty, brains and force of will, judiciously softened with poise and extreme charm, make her a formidable saleswoman, of whatever she’s peddling.
Raw photojournalist footage of a panel discussion from a SF/Horror convention held in Knoxville in 1983. Participants include Stephen King, Peter Straub, Karl Edward Wagner, Charles Grant, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Whitley Streiber, Dennis Etchison, and others.
Shining in the Dark: Celebrating Twenty Years of Lilja’s Library is now confirmed for five editions and here is all the info you need.
The Bulgarian edition:
Release date: November 20, 2017
Edition: Paperback
Pre-Order: Pleiad Books Official site
The US edition:
Release date: January 2018
Edition: Hardback (signed by the editor and the cover artist)
Pre-Order: Cemetery Dance and Amazon Official site
Children of the Corn: Runaway is out and I have seen it. Read my thoughts 
Virginia Kull has been cast in Mr Mercedes.
Mike Flanagan is set to direct Doctor Sleep the sequel to The Shining. Warner Bros will release it and Flanagan will rewrite Akiva Goldsman's script, Flanagan’s producing partner Trevor Macy will produce along with Vertigo Entertainment’s Jon Berg. Goldsman is executive producer.
