By Don Kaye, Source: Blastr.com It’s been kind of quiet on the Dark Tower scene in recent months, leading to speculation that the mammoth project had fallen into development hell. But now there are signs that Roland the last gunslinger might be coming to a theater near you after all.
by Kevin Melrose, Source: Comic Book Resources Eisner-winning comics writer, and Lost alum, Brian K. Vaughan will adapt Stephen King’s 2009 novel Under the Dome for Showtime, Deadline reports. Announced in late August, the DreamWorks-produced drama series is based on the sci-fi thriller about a picturesque town in Maine that
by Brendon Connelly, Source: Bleeding Cool.com Stephen King needs tidy rules for time travel more than most of us. Not because he’s a time traveller (he’s not, okay) but because he’s been writing about one. In order to promote his new novel, 11/22/63, which is being adapted into a film
by Brendon Connelly, Source: Bleeding Cool.com Producer Brian Grazer and director Ron Howard’s have been planning a multi-part adaptation of Stephen King’s novels and comics cycle The Dark Tower to be spread across movies and TV. For a while now, though, it’s been looking rather like that other tower, the
By Matthew Jackson, Source: Blastr.com Ever since we heard about Warner Bros. big-screen adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand back in February, we’ve been waiting for some hard news on just who’d be working on this thing. For a while it looked like the project would go to Steve Kloves
By Matthew Jackson, Source: Blastr.com It’s been 34 years since Stephen King published The Shining, the haunted hotel story that remains among his most iconic novels. It took three and a half decades, but King has officially announced a sequel to the book that will pit a grown-up version of
By Drew McWeeny, Source: HitFlix.com The “Harry Potter” film series was a juggernaut pretty much from start to finish, occupying ten years of pop culture real estate by sheer force of will. There was no guarantee up front that the films would work, or that fans would be happy, or
By Don Kaye, Blaster.com It’s all over, folks: Universal Studios has canceled its ambitious adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower over budgetary issues. According to Deadline, the studio has scrapped the entire project—which was to consist of three feature films and two TV miniseries—because it was too expensive and
At the Walking Dead panel at this past weekend’s C2E2 comics-and-other-geekery convention in Chicago, one of the undead hit’s stars let slip that the horror luminary might be saddling up for a tour in zombieland. While fielding a question about whether executive producer Frank Darabont would be directing the second
After scaring fans the world over as a best-selling novel, a TV miniseries and most recently a Marvel comic, Stephen King’s epic tale of mankind’s ultimate battle between good and evil is finally going to be a movie. Warner Brothers and CBS Films are joining forces to adapt King’s novel,
