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The Dark Tower Trailer – Flickering Myth Reaction

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The Flickering Myth team reacts… SEE ALSO: Read the Flickering Myth Reactions to Kingsman: The Golden Circle, Thor: Ragnarok, Justice League, War for the Planet of the Apes, Blade Runner 2049, and more Should we be worried about The Dark Tower? After all, we’re only four months from release and the first trailer only landed […]

Akiva Goldsman to direct remake of Stephen King’s Firestarter

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Jason Blum of Blumhouse Productions has announced that Akiva Goldsman (Winter’s Tale, Stephanie) has signed on to direct new version of the 1980 Stephen King novel Firestarter, which has been scripted by Scott Teems (Rectify). Firestarter follows Andy McGee and his young daughter Charlie, a nine-year old girl who has inherited pyrokinetic abilities from her […]

Stephen King and Owen King’s Sleeping Beauties heading to the small screen for TV adaptation

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Anonymous Content has snapped up the rights to Sleeping Beauties, an upcoming novel from Stephen King and his son Owen King, and is now in development on a TV adaptation, which is being produced by Michael Sugar and Ashley Zalta (The OA). The novel is set for publication in September, and the official synopsis reads: […]

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 […]

What the hell is going on with The Dark Tower movie?

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Samuel Brace is starting to get a little concerned about The Dark Tower… The Dark Tower adaptation currently set for release this summer seems to be in big trouble. We are months from release and there’s no trailer, the film has recently been delayed, and now reshoots are taking place. None of this looks good […]

Stephen King’s Castle Rock gets full season order

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Filming on the pilot hasn’t even begun yet, but Hulu has already ordered a full 10 episode season for the Stephen King and J.J. Abrams anthology series Castle Rock. This comes after positive reception to the recently released teaser trailer. Castle Rock is the fictional Maine town that many of Stephen Kings stories are set in and […]

The Lion King casting, first look at Ego the Living Planet, Stephen King shared universe, the fate of Jar Jar Binks – Weekend News Roundup

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Rounding up the big news stories from the weekend… LANDO CALRISSIAN AND DARTH VADER JOIN THE LION KING Director Jon Favreau has revealed the first casting for his upcoming remake of the animated Disney classic The Lion King, with Donald Glover set to voice Simba and James Earl Jones reprising his role from the original […]

J.J. Abrams, Stephen King and Hulu invite us to take a trip to Castle Rock

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Fresh from their collaboration on 11/22/63, J.J. Abrams and Hulu are set for a return to the world of Stephen King, this time for an anthology series entitled Castle Rock, which of course takes its name from the fictional Maine town that appears in many of King’s novels. The news was revealed with the release […]