The Walking Dead on DVD
Posted: March 8, 2011, 17:30
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NEWS -
Season 2 of Haven soon to start shooting
Posted: March 8, 2011, 08:56
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More 11/22/63
Posted: March 2, 2011, 16:34
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Both Scribner and Hodder & Stoughton has promotion sites for 11/22/63. On Hodders you can see this image. I have no idea though if it's the cover of just a promotional image.[edit] This is not the cover. Just something they will use to promote the book. It looks good though.
Scribners's 11/22/63 page
Hodder & Stoughton's 11/22/63 page
King's next book announced!
Posted: March 2, 2011, 16:32
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President Kennedy died, and the world changed.
If you had the chance to change history, would you?
Would the consequences be worth it?
Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. He receives an essay from one of the students—a gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night 50 years ago when Harry Dunning’s father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a hammer. Harry escaped with a smashed leg, as evidenced by his crooked walk.
Not much later, Jake’s friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insane—and insanely possible—mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination. So begins Jake’s new life as George Amberson and his new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars and sock hops, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake’s life—a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time.
Dark Tower and Javier update
Posted: March 2, 2011, 14:48
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With the ever-changing, ever-flowing news cycle surrounding the goings on in the film industry these days, it gets tougher and tougher to get concerned parties to actually confirm or break news. Nevertheless, our tireless team of intrepid reporters here at MTV News will not give up in trying to push people for info! Like whenever we happen upon super producer Brian Grazer and pump him for details about "The Dark Tower," for example...
The last time we checked in with Grazer, the Roland casting process was moving along, but slowly. When I stopped him while on his way into the Vanity Fair Oscar party last Sunday, solely with the purpose of peppering him about the reported casting of Javier Bardem as the ruthless gunslinger, he seemed pleasantly puzzled by the fact that MTV is so interested in the project.
"'Dark Tower,' Javier Bardem, that's what we're hoping," Grazer said when I asked him for an update. "We're in the process of trying to put that together. Will that make you happy? Will that make MTV happy?"
Yes, I told him. Very happy! But has he officially signed Bardem onto the project?
"He's locked in psychologically," Grazer said. "He really wants to do it, so we're absolutely rooting for him to do it."
When asked to address other potential cast members, Grazer said they're too busy with Bardem.
"We're really just focused on Javier right now," he said.
Grazer went on to say that in addition to the challenges involved with locking in a lead actor, they'll have their hands full trying to roll-out the project across multiple platforms including film, TV and video games.
"It's challenging to capture all of it, the density of it," he said, adding that he's excited to explore all the metaphors involved, and that the first story they're exploring is that of "The Gunslinger."
Thanks to Bev Vincent
And the winners are...
Posted: February 28, 2011, 10:57
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Question 1: What is the name of the publishing house that has released Stephen King on the Big Screen and Stephen King on the Small Screen?
Answer: 1: Intellect books
Question 2: Has King himself contributed to the books?
Answer: 2: No
Question 3: What is the author of Stephen King on the Small Screen last name?
Answer: 3: Browning
Question 4: What is the difference between small screen and big screen in this case besides the size?
Answer: 4: Small screen = TV, Big screen = Cinema
Question 5: Is Lilja’s Library cited in either of these books?
Answer: 5: No
And the winners are G W Henderson (New Zealand), Carrie Bouchard (USA) and Tim Connellan (United Kingdom). Congratulations!
The Walking Dead on DVD March 8
Posted: February 24, 2011, 23:32
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Here is what you get:
- Making of “The Walking Dead”
- Inside “The Walking Dead”: Episode 1-6
- A sneak peek with Robert Kirkman
- Behind the scenes Zombie make-up tips
- Convention panel with producers
- “The Walking Dead” trailer
- Zombie school
- Bicycle girl
- On the set with Robert Kirkman
- Hanging with Steven Yeun
- Inside Dale’s RV
- On the set with Andrew Lincoln
So, whatever you do, don’t miss this one once it’s out on March 8! You can check out my review of the series here.
Review and contest
Posted: February 21, 2011, 00:22
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Here are my review of Stephen King on the Big Screen and Stephen King on the Small Screen. And don't miss the chance to win these books in the contest!Full Dark, No Stars in paperback
Posted: February 15, 2011, 13:17
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One For The Road being filmed
Posted: February 15, 2011, 00:30
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Thoughts on A Very Tight Place
Posted: February 14, 2011, 16:13
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Next book in November
Posted: February 11, 2011, 20:24
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Thanks to Ari.
My review of Everything's Eventual
Posted: February 9, 2011, 15:30
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Here is my review of the first featurelength Dollar Baby, Everything's Eventual.Unboxing
Posted: February 8, 2011, 15:43
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King won't take a Stand
Posted: February 4, 2011, 10:28
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10 things about The Stand
Posted: February 4, 2011, 08:52
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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.
Thanks to Al Mattice
IT's out to directors
Posted: February 3, 2011, 08:48
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Apparently his script is currently out to directors, and some very interesting filmmakers have started talking to the studio. This can be a lengthy process, though, so there may not be more news about it for a couple of months but it's moving on as it should.
More remake news
Posted: February 3, 2011, 08:45
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According to Los Angeles Times, screenwriter Matt Greenberg (who also scripted the King adaptation 1408) "is set to turn in his script for a new version of the tale, according to a person briefed on the project who was not authorized to speak about it publicly. And executives at studio Paramount have put out the word to at least two representatives in the agent community that they are seeking a high-level director to tackle the material."
Thanks to Louis Sytsma.
Lilja's Library: Lettered
Posted: February 1, 2011, 22:13
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New endpaper
Different cover (color and texture)
Different front
Satin ribbon page marker
These “no tips” where used in a Grab Bag that Cemetery Dance sold and there where less than 12 done.
Dark Tower Game?
Posted: February 1, 2011, 08:52
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There are genuine plans for a May 13th, 2013, release theatrical, with T.V. hours to follow. [However,] there is no green light in place yet, as the scripts are not done, which means the budgets are not done, but Universal is giving very strong support. There's also a very ambitious Game component being planned that will further utilize elements from the books. [If everything continues on schedule and the budget is approved], it looks like things are coming together for a late-summer or early-September start.
Thanks to Ari.
Time to take a Stand again?
Posted: February 1, 2011, 08:48
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Read more here.
Thanks to Alejandro Carmona, Randall Flagg and Louis Sytsma.
More Javier as Roland
Posted: January 27, 2011, 16:48
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I have the official go-ahead to announce that Ron Howard/Universal has offered Javier Bardem the part of Roland. I do not know if he has accepted the offer but chances are they wouldn't make this announcement if he wasn't considering it. The announcement was made through Deadline Hollywood--here's the link for the full story.
Javier Bardem is Roland
Posted: January 27, 2011, 15:35
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Mike Fleming of Deadline Hollywood is reporting that oscar-winning actor Javier Bardem will play Roland Deschain in the upcoming Dark Tower films and television series. This is also reported by King's official site so it looks like it's the real deal this time.
The contracts have been signed
Posted: January 25, 2011, 11:21
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Steve just had a meeting with Ron Howard and Akiva Goldsman a couple weeks ago and the contracts have all been signed. I think he would have mentioned if there was a problem but he said the meeting went fine. My understanding is they're planning to start announcing casting choices, possibly this week.
Info on the next book
Posted: January 25, 2011, 11:19
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Interview with Marsha DeFilippo
Posted: January 25, 2011, 09:21
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Next Dollar Baby is...
Posted: January 25, 2011, 09:18
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Howard talks some more Dark Tower
Posted: January 20, 2011, 16:39
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"Right now what we're talking about is a movie and six or eight hours of television to bridge. My plan is to do most of those TV hours, if not all, and certainly the movies." And, in case you thought the roles of the main characters would be recast for the TV series, Howard confirmed that the actors from the films will indeed reprise their roles on the small screen.
Clip of Brian Grazer
Posted: January 20, 2011, 16:27
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And as a vice man told me (yes it was Bev Vincent), getting a big name attached to the movie might give them the 'go' they need...
The Dark Tower no 'go' yet?
Posted: January 20, 2011, 14:17
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How are things progressing with The Dark Tower?
"I'm working on it. We don't know if it's a 'go' but it is picking up a lot of momentum and a lot of creative momentum. I've had fantastic conversations with Stephen King. Akiva Goldsman, who wrote A Beautiful Mind, Cinderella Man and Da Vinci Code, is on it as a writer and also a producer and brought the project to me. We're already gathering this interesting team of people who love these genres - fantasy and horror. For me it's creatively very exciting. The possibilities are rich."
If this interview is done recently the fact that Howard says he don't know if it's a 'go' speaks against that we'll know in a week who'll play Roland...
Thanks to Bev Vincent
A Literary Companion, a new book by Wood
Posted: January 20, 2011, 08:39
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This companion provides a two-part introduction to best-selling author Stephen King, whose enormous popularity over the years has gained him an audience well beyond readers of horror fiction, the genre with which is most often associated. Part I considers the reception of King’s work, the film adaptations that they gave rise to, the fictional worlds in which some of his novels are set, and the more useful approaches to King’s varied corpus. Part II consists of entries for each series, novel, story, screenplay and even poem, including works never published or produced, as well as characters and settings. Read more about it here.
Dark Tower casting to be revealed soon?
Posted: January 19, 2011, 08:35
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"...when we asked if he'd talked to the two actors about the part, he simply laughed and responded, 'Sure.' Grazer did say, however, that a casting announcement is imminent. How imminent? 'Within a week,' he said. Seriously? 'Seriously. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Seriously,' he assured us before asking, 'Who do you want?' Honestly, we'll take either of them. 'OK, great,' Grazer concluded."
This sounds a bit early but stranger things have happened. Personally I was hoping for an unknown actor but if it is down to Javier Bardem and Viggo Mortensen I'm hoping for Bardem.
Thanks to John Haberkorn
Full Dark, No Stars in paperback
Posted: January 19, 2011, 00:03
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Thanks to Bev Vincent
Dark Tower on TV is a six hour special
Posted: January 17, 2011, 00:19
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Ron talks Dark Tower
Posted: January 14, 2011, 08:44
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It's great to hear him speak about it even if he just mentions it briefly.
Thanks to Bev Vincent
The script for A Very Tight Place
Posted: January 14, 2011, 08:40
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Got this interesting script yesterday. A Very Tight Place is a favorite of mine so I'm really looking forward to this Dollar Baby.Lester talks Firestarter
Posted: January 11, 2011, 09:57
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On Firestarter:
“Originally John Carpenter was gonna direct that,” Lester reveals. “There was a script that was written, I forget who wrote it. Then the budget was way out of line, like $15 million. And the script had no relationship to the book whatsoever. They didn’t want to shoot it for that amount of money so Dino de Laurentiis came to me and said, ‘I read the book. Can you make a treatment out of this?’ So I brought in Stanley Mann, who I knew, and when we wrote the treatment, we styled [it after] the book exactly scene for scene. We gave it Dino De Laurentiis, and he said, ‘Well this just follows the book exactly…’ Well, yeah, of course! You paid a million dollars for the book, I said, ‘Why aren’t you following the book? That’s why this thing can’t get made yet. We’ll just shoot the book.’ And he says, ‘Okaaaaay…’ So within three weeks the script was written, and we had a green light from Universal to make the film just off the script, which was identical to the book.”
Lester confirms that Firestarter has been his most difficult film to date. “That was all practical [effects]. The fireballs you see ... that’s not CGI. Back then, we actually created fireballs that could fly through the air – they were on a wire and could crash into buildings. We had people on fire that were on trampolines that had to flip through the air. It was very dangerous. All the effects were done right on the set – it was a pretty intense thing to do then…” Lester also notes that the film’s epic “farm attack” scene took an entire week to film.
Read the entire interview here.
And more Dollar Babies
Posted: January 10, 2011, 23:48
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And here are some photos from the Dollar Baby version of A Very Tight Place.
Here is a facebook site for the German Dollar Baby version of Reststop.
And here are more info about Dollar Babies.
New Dollar Baby
Posted: January 10, 2011, 23:46
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[edit]Sorry, this isn't a Dollar Baby. It's a feature movie. Thanks Ari.
Thanks to Bob LeDrew
Lilja on YouTube
Posted: January 10, 2011, 16:15
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It's extra fun that Scott pronounces Lilja almost correct.
Susannah Dean casted?
Posted: January 9, 2011, 01:18
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The New York Post has the rumor, stating quite simply and without attribution: "'Pirates of the Caribbean' beauty Naomie Harris is being considered for the female lead in the Ron Howard's eagerly anticipated 'Dark Tower' trilogy." Without any official confirmation, let's treat Harris' involvement as a rumor for now — but it's certainly a rumor we're excited about.
Who is Roland?
Posted: January 3, 2011, 13:24
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Ron Howard's adaptation of Stephen King's "The Dark Tower" has set off a casting frenzy in Hollywood. Agents are tripping over themselves to land their clients coveted roles in what promises to be a blockbuster film and television franchise. Leading the pack for the principal character, Roland Deschain, is Javier Bardem, with Viggo Mortensen a close second, sources tell us. Howard and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman have a deal with Universal that will translate into a TV show and three movies, all using the same cast. Brian Grazer will produce with Goldsman and King. According to reports, they plan to start with an epic movie, then continue the story with the TV series, followed by a second film, and then a second TV season showing gunslinger Deschain as a young man. Then, the third movie will end the saga with Deschain as an older man.
No more EW columns
Posted: January 1, 2011, 01:44
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Sorry, it's true. He's done it for quite a few years now and had wanted to stop a year or so ago but they talked him into staying a little longer.
Thanks to Ari
A review of my book
Posted: December 21, 2010, 08:46
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There are still copies available from several stores if you're interested in getting a copy. And if you want it signed, that can be arranged as well. You'll have to pay postage to Sweden though.
Cemetery Dance
Amazon.com
Amazon.co.uk
Barnes and Noble
Borders
LA Times article about The Dark Tower movie
Posted: December 19, 2010, 00:38
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Thanks to Louis Sytsma
King on Ustream
Posted: December 19, 2010, 00:34
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Thanks to Al and Katherine.
Dark Tower update
Posted: December 14, 2010, 23:18
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Deadline caught up with Rob Howard, who is set to direct the first of three Steven King The Dark Tower adaptations, which will arrive in theaters May 17, 2013 from Universal Pictures. They write that they plan to turn King's masterwork into a film trilogy with a network TV series programmed between films. Howard will direct the first film and the limited run series that will create a bridge to the second feature. "It is going well, and it has been incredibly stimulating to work on," Howard said. "It's dense, a great author's life work is not to be taken lightly. It has been utterly fascinating to explore it, and we are having great creative conversations. I've begun tossing and turning at 3 in the morning over it, so that's a good sign." The books chronicle the mysterious The Gunslinger as he travels across a desolate and vaguely post-apocalyptic landscape in his quest for a black tower. Portals along the way eventually allow contact with our own modern world.
Thanks to Al Mattice
Time to light the fires again
Posted: December 14, 2010, 13:21
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Universal is looking to reignite the "Firestarter" flame.
The studio and Dino De Laurentiis Co. have teamed to reboot the 1984 horror pic, with Mark L. Smith onboard to pen the script.
Although there were no sequels to the original feature, based on the Stephen King tome, the studio aims to turn the reboot into a franchise property.
The 1984 pic starred Drew Barrymore as a girl able to start fires at will. It grossed $17 million at the domestic B.O. and was also produced through U and De Laurentiis' Co.
Plot details for the reboot are being kept under wraps. It's expected to be loosely based on the original King book, but the main character is to be reinvented with a little more edge.
De Laurentiis Co. chairman Martha De Laurentiis and prexy of production Lorenzo De Maio will produce through the De Laurentiis Co. along with Steven Schneider through his Room 101 banner.
"We see this as a unique, character-driven thriller with a supernatural edge, based on a timeless concept and enhanced by recent visual effects advances," Martha De Laurentiis said.
Deal for "Firestarter" extends the longstanding relationship between U and De Laurentiis Co. The reboot was among the last projects the prolific Dino De Laurentiis worked on before his death in November at age 91.
"'Firestarter' has a great mythology and with Martha and Lorenzo's vision we believe the franchise can be extended in a new and exciting direction," said Debbie Liebling, U's prexy of production.
De Laurentiis Co. has a slew of projects in various stages of development, including a reboot of the cult classic "Barbarella," a remake of another King adaptation, "Maximum Overdrive" and a new spin on 1980s TV actioner "MacGyver."
Smith is now working on the "Firestarter" script. U hopes to get the pic into production next year, but has yet to take the project out to directors.
Besides the 1984 pic, cabler Syfy fielded a telepic in 2002 dubbed "Firestarter 2: Rekindled."
Thanks to Bev Vincent
Maximum Overdrive...again?
Posted: December 14, 2010, 10:15
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Maximum Overdrive Remake Wheels Starting to Spin
Dino De Laurentiis Co. Maximum Overdrive Remakes Stephen King
The year was 1986 and the directorial debut of horror icon Stephen King roared off of the big screen like a big bloody fun behemoth. The AC/DC soundtrack kicked ass, the Green Goblin's head has never been the same, and to this very day we refuse to look at any appliance the same way ever again.
Can a remake of this cult classic capture the same kind of magic? Who knows, but according to Variety Dino De Laurentiis Co. has one waiting in the wings.
The original film focused on what happened when the earth passed through the tail of a mysterious comet and the machines on Earth suddenly came to life and terrorize their human creators.
The original film focused on what happened when the earth passed through the tail of a mysterious comet and the machines on Earth suddenly came to life and terrorize their human creators.
In terms of news regarding this upcoming remake, that's really all there is at the moment. Don't worry though, we'll keep our ears to the ground and if those big-ass semi's start rolling you'll be the first to know about it.
Summary of King's chat
Posted: December 10, 2010, 00:28
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