I haven’t see the Darabont one since release, but I can’t imagine this one could really be any better. Why waste time readapting a modern good movie? Hopefully Flanagan is getting paid enough to guarantee a Dark Tower green light.
ehhh a little traumatized to say the least haha. i loved it but yeah it was brutal. gives such new insight and appreciation for Roland's character. really makes me want to re-read The Gunslinger
Opted for the re-read of Salem's Lot after Wizard and Glass. So so good and I love how much of this came back to me once I got through the first few chapters. Think I may finally watch both adaptations after finishing it. I've never seen Tobe Hooper's!
Hooper's is incredible, there's actually two others iirc but neither one is considered very good from what I've heard
I am kinda curious about Donald Sutherland in that one but not curious enough to watch Rob Lowe act for three hours lmao
Following up for the sake of posterity: I finished my re-read of Salem's Lot, watched the original '79 film, and jumped back into Wolves of the Calla. I am happy with this decision so far. The pretty instantaneous connection between Salem's Lot and Wolves makes it all nice and seamless.
My buddy has decided to try getting into reading as his outlet for when his newborn goes to sleep. He gave me some ideas of what he was looking for and I suggested 11/22/63. This has been so fun to watch him text me every day this week with an update of how much he is loving it. And he’s only within the first 100 pages.
'Carrie's Mike Flanagan Signs Multi-Year TV Pact With Amazon MGM Studios I know this isn't Stephen King directly, but it's definitely King-adjacent right now I'm surprised Netflix never tried to lock him down after how amazing Hill House was
Not shocking. Wheaton has built a nice little niche for himself as the go to audiobook narrator of major genre fiction books by big name authors. He does most of the John Scalzi books, and also did the audiobooks for Ready Player One and The Martian.
Finished Under the Dome today. Had a lot of fun with this one. I didn't mind the explanation or ending as much as I've heard a lot of people do. Out of his intertwining epics I'd still put it behind The Stand, IT, and Needful Things. Big Jim and Junior are pretty great King villains. The Bush/Cheney of it all was pretty funny and heavy-handed, but obviously there are a lot of parallels to a certain bad orange man and his brownshirts.
Funny because I started Under the Dome today. I'm excited to dive in. Seeing a list of 40 characters and a town map in the first two pages and I immediately know I'm in for a long one, haha.
It's a journey but it starts with a bang and never really lulls. You can tell in this and Needful Things that King has so much fun winding all these connecting small town stories up to a boiling point.
I read under the dome in like a week cause I couldn’t put it down. It’s just straight out the gate going 100 mph.
A quarter of the way into The Dark Tower. I still have 4.5 to read but excited to finally wrap this up. It's been such a fun trip.