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Stephen King and Joe Hill’s Throttle heading to the big screen

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Production company A Bigger Boat has optioned the rights to Throttle, a novella from Stephen King and his son Joe Hill, with THR reporting that producer Emile Gladstone has tapped John Scott III (Maggie) to pen the script for a big screen adaptation. Originally published in 2009 as part of a Richard Matheson tribute and inspired […]

Stephen King is impressed by the new It adaptation

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A few weeks ago Stephen King shared his thoughts on the upcoming Gerald’s Game movie, calling it “horrifying, hypnotic and terrific”, and it seems the legendary author is also equally impressed by New Line Cinema’s big screen take on It. Producer Seth Grahame-Smith took to Instagram to share a message from King, stating that: “Steve asked […]

The Dark Tower TV series announced, will adapt Wizard and Glass

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Coinciding with Stephen King’s 69th birthday today, Sony and Media Rights Capital – the production company behind the upcoming movie – have announced that the companion TV series to The Dark Tower is officially a go. EW is reporting that Sony and MRC have committed to financing a run of between 10 and 13 episodes […]

Stephen King expects The Dark Tower to happen with Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey

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Last year, Ron Howard, Akiva Goldsman and Brian Grazer’s planned adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower dragged itself out of development hell, with Sony and Media Rights Capital picking up the ambitious project and setting Nikolaj Arcel (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) to direct. In the past few months we’ve heard that Matthew […]

Idris Elba frontrunner for lead in Stephen King’s The Dark Tower adaptation

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Idris Elba’s name is being tossed around as the potential lead in the big screen adaptation for Stephen King’s The Dark Tower. According to Deadline, he is now being called the frontrunner to play Roland Deschain, a role said to be narrowed down to Elba and Javier Bardem. The Dark Tower will mark the first […]

Will the studios learn their lesson after a year full of box office duds?

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Tom Jolliffe looks at some of the box office bombs in 2019, and whether studios will learn from their mistakes… 2019 has been an interesting year. There have been the expected successes with Marvel (particularly Avengers: Endgame), and unexpectedly gargantuan success with Joker (which was expected to do well, but that well?). Like every year […]

Mr. Mercedes Season 1 Finale Review – ‘Jibber-Jibber Chicken Dinner’

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Martin Carr reviews the Mr. Mercedes season 1 finale… As far as finales go this is strong stuff held together by grizzly dream sequences, psychotic Professor X wannabes and some nasty knife work. We get to see placebo pills being popped, Hodges floating around unconvinced by the death of his arch nemesis while a half […]