Posts tagged with ‘stephen king’

Teaser trailer and poster for the brand new ‘Carrie’ movie

The remake of ‘Carrie’ starring Chloe Moretz and Julienne Moore hits theaters next March, and here’s the first teaser trailer and poster. THEY’RE ALL GONNA LAUGH AT YOU!

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Keep track of Stephen King’s fictional worlds with the Stephen King Flowchart

I’m more of a Terry Pratchett’s Discworld fan…Vimes is way more awesome than Roland.  But for the many here that may be a King fan, here’s a flow chart of his stories.

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SyFy is going to turn Stephen King’s ‘Eyes of the Dragon’ into a movie

Stephen King’s many, many novels have been turned into many, many movies, but one notable exception up until now is ‘TheEyes of the Dragon’, King’s 1987 foray into fantasy. Don’t worry though, kids… SyFy’s got this. 

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Chloe Moretz has been offered the role of Carrie in a remake of the 1976 film

Chloe Moretz first wowed audiences as Hit Girl in the film adaptation of Kick-Ass and since then she’s starred in Martin Scorsese’s Hugo and is acting alongside Johnny Depp in Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows. And now it looks like she may be playing the role of Carrie White in a remake of the classic 1976 film Carrie, based on the Stephen King novel.

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After Universal bails, Warner Bros picks up The Dark Tower

After Ron Howard spent months and months negotiating with Universal to make a Dark Tower movie trilogy, the movie studio eventually bailed, leaving the tale of the Gunslinger in limbo. But now it appears that Warner Bros has picked up the project and is going forward with it like a champ. And yes, Javier Bardem is still on board.

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Stephen King explains the rules of time travel as he sees them

The great thing about time travel is that since it’s a non-existant technology in our current time stream, it’s something that people can make up rules for to whatever suits their needs. Whether it’s Doctor Who, Twelve Monkeys, The Time Machine or Timecop, everyone has their own time travel rules, and Stephen King is no exception in his new novel 11/22/63 about a man who travels back in time to try and stop the Kennedy assassination.

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Dark Tower is back on… as a series on HBO

The original, incredibly ambitious plan for the live action Dark Tower adaptation was to include three films and a TV series to bridge the gaps, but that turned out to be too expensive for Universal. Speaking with MTV today, producer Brian Grazer said that it’s now one movie and an HBO TV series, which honestly sounds like a pretty good deal.

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If you guessed Ben Affleck would be directing The Stand, come collect your prize

Stephen King’s The Stand is coming to the big screen, and it looks like the man behind the camera will be none other than Ben Affleck. Wait now, don’t hate— Ben Affleck is a good director. But for The Stand? Well, he’s got to break out of his own gritty Boston dramas at some point.

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Stephen King announces he’s writing “Dr. Sleep”, a sequel to The Shining

Out of Stephen King’s entire massive body of work, The Shining could be considered one of his signature works, in no small part to the Stanley Kubrick film adaptation. And yesterday, King officially announced that he was working on a sequel to the 1977 novel called Dr. Sleep.

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Holy fuck, is Universal about to pull the plug on The Dark Tower?

Okay now, what’s this shit? After we’ve been kept waiting for decades to see The Dark Tower on the big screen, after Ron Howard has already done an incredible amount of planning and Javier Bardem tapped to play Roland, it turns out that Universal may kill the project all together, because they’re afraid that it might be way too expensive.

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And it looks like the role of Roland in The Dark Tower will be going to Javier Bardem

Ron Howard starts shooting the massively epically epic The Dark Tower in September, and it looks like he’s finally found his gunslinger in Javier Bardem. Not only is this perfect casting, but it’s a pretty huge deal for Bardem, one that would include three movies and several TV series in between the movies to try and encompass as much of Stephen King’s seven volume work as possible.

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