5 Stephen King Tales That Are Probably Unfilmable
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Stephen King
Yorick_Brown — 9 years ago(February 15, 2017 12:38 PM)
There have been a lot of stories in the world of literature that have been described by critics as unadaptable, and there have been many filmmakers who have gone out of their way to prove them wrong. Whether its David Cronenberg tackling William S. Burroughs Naked Lunch, James Franco taking a shot at Cormac McCarthys Child of God, or Denis Villeneuve crafting Enemy from Jos Saramagos The Double, challenging material can be a call-to-action for visionary filmmakers to do something truly unforgettable. Yet with a prolific writer like the one-and-only Stephen King, the term unadaptable almost never applies, especially considering just how much of his high-concept scare fare has bled into the world of cinema.
In Kings case, many have assumed that Geralds Game would remain his unfilmable novel, one in which the subject matter, narrative style, and reputation of the story would keep any studio from taking a chance on a big-screen adaptation. Against all odds, Geralds Game is coming to screens later this year from Hush collaborators Mike Flanagan and Netflix, and King himself has labeled an early cut as horrifying. So with that in mind, Shock Till You Drop has assembled five other potentially unadaptable Stephen King stories that may never join the ranks of Kings frightful filmography
http://www.comingsoon.net/horror/features/814211-5-stephen-king-tales-that-are-probably-unfilmable#G9ISRrtKv3bgjS0z.99
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