Maybe the 'scariest' movie the Coen's have made so far is Barton Fink. It gets pretty gruesome and evil near the end. Joel and Ethan are great at 'putting the bodies away'. From Blood Simple's great burial scene to the CIA dialog in Burn After Reading ("Who was the guy thrown into the bay?" "Don't know. He was scrubbed of all ID. Should I notify the FBI boys about it?" "Hell no! Just burn the body. We don't want those bureau jerks causing us more grief!" That's some COLD dialog right there!) I think the Coens are best at mystery and suspense. The Shining actually isn't a bad idea for them. To take on a Kubrick picture that's become so iconic today still? Kinda like going out to rewrite the bible for the Catholic Church. True Grit was good, but at the same time pointless. As George Harrison so eloquently said on a Simpsons episode: "It's already been done" Coens doing a reboot of Damnation Alley with Clooney as Capt. Tanner?
That flick could use a modern day brush up, and would be interesting to see the Coens tackle something like that?

Most Stephen King based films turn out poorly because King uses a lot of inner monologue. This leaves bad filmmakers up to their own devices to tell the audience what is driving the plot and the motivations. It often turns out ugly and forced.
The Coens would have had the same issue with No Country for Old Men, which Cormic McCarthy also left with little external dialogue and lots of actions that needed to be interpreted by the audience. They did a fantastic job with that and could easily apply the same techniques to a King story.

It's a skit from one of The Simpson's Halloween specials.
Never defend crap with 'It's just a movie'
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What the fck is the shinning
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I think the Shining is one film that should be left alone, no one would be able to top the Stanley Kubrick version its just too good for any of the hack directors living today IMO. Stephen King bashed the hell out of it because he was jealous that someone made his story better then he produced his own version and we all know how that turned out, he'd never admit it but I bet he was embarrassed by how his "proper version" turned out because it was not only a bad adaptation it was honestly one of the worst films of any genre Ive ever seen.

I sure they hope they bring Groundskeeper Willie back.
The bitter thinkers buy their tickets to go find God like a piggy in a fair

When did I say such a thing?

Why would they be to good to do a Stephen King film? Was Stanley Kubrick too good to make Stephen King films, too?

Dude, I know all of this. You jumped in the middle of a conversation that jumped from another board with the same poster I was responding to, who was trolling the Star Wars board saying they were in a coma for sixteen years. But thanks for telling me beep I already knew about Doctor Sleep.

Um, uh, yeah, it had everything to do with your conversation.
With Doctor Sleep, Stephen King returns to the characters and territory of one of his previous novels, The Shining. The novel features the now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) and the twelve-year-old girl, Abra Stone, that he must save from The True Knot. The True Knot are a group of almost immortal travelers who cross the country feeding off of children with the gift of "the shining." Dan drifted for decades in an attempt to escape his father's legacy, but eventually settled in a New Hampshire town and works in a nursing home, where his remnant mental abilities provide comfort to the dying. With the aid of a cat that can foresee the future, Dan becomes "Doctor Sleep." After meeting Abra Stone, an epic war between good and evil ensues.
Even broccoli screams when you pull it out of the ground

Uh, thanks for that, I guess, even though it had nothing to do with myb68 conversation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Sleep_(novel)
You mean Norman Bates Jr. is the baby daddy?

Ha. Nice try. Would have been more believable if you hadn't overdone it with the cell phone line.

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How much did you heard about this while you were in your coma?

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You mean the Simpsons parody? Because the actual film was "The Shining."
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True. Their adaptations aren't as good as their original stuff. For me, INSIDE LD and A SERIOUS MAN are far better than their Clooney pictures.

They're too good for Stephen King stuff.
Well adapted King has been the basis of films by Stanley KubrickThe ShiningBrian De PalmaCarrieJohn CarpenterChristine..and David CronenbergThe Dead Zone. The Coens would be in good company.

They're too good for Stephen King stuff. They need to do more original screenwriting these days, not less. And if they do keep adapting novels, they ought to pick things that haven't been done to death already.