![]() Give me a Stephen King movie every year for the rest of my life, and I'll die a happy man. The movie-going public (or whatever you want to call it now) will never see the end of Stephen King adaptations. New adaptations of Firestarter, 'Salem's Lot, and Christine are all in various stages of production, not to mention Edgar Wright's The Running Man and the Stephen Spielberg produced, The Talisman, for Netflix. Now, forty-five years later, it's clear that Hollywood has no plans to abandon America's boogeyman anytime soon. In 1976, Brian De Palma introduced Hollywood to Stephen King with his excellent adaptation of King's first published novel, Carrie. Since 1974, King has published sixty-three novels (including this year's Later and Billy Summers), five non-fiction books, and eleven collections containing novellas & short stories numbering into the hundreds. It's in no way false, but it fails to convey the enormity of the truth. Saying Stephen King has written a lot of stories is kind of like saying the Pacific Ocean is big. ![]()
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