What Does Stephen King Think About Movie Adaptations Of His Works?

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Stephen King has written about a bajillion stories, and there have been nearly as many movie and TV adaptations made of his works, about one or more a year since the 80s.

With so many of his works being adapted each year there are bound to be some stinkers, but King's opinion on those movie adaptations may surprise you.

He has been up front about his hatred of Kubrick's adaptation of The Shining from the very beginning, stating:

"I’d admired Kubrick for a long time and had great expectations for the project, but I was deeply disappointed in the end result. Parts of the film are chilling, charged with a relentlessly claustrophobic terror, but others fall flat."

So if he doesn't like an adaptation many people consider to be a classic then which films does he like?

King has stated that he's fond of Cujo, The Dead Zone and Misery in terms of horror, and he loves The Mist because "it's just an all out balls-to-the-wall horror film".

But what about his non-horror stuff? Surely he doesn't hate on those prison classics like he hates on The Shining?

Apparently he approves of The Green Mile adaptation, although he says "The film is a little 'soft' in some ways", but The Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me are both Grade A adaptations approved by the Master of Horror.


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I think I'd have serious anxiety problems if I had his job.
*track is going to stop, car is going to kill me*
*track is going to stop, car is going to kill me*
*repeat for 8 hours*
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As an engineer who frequently works around cars on chassis dynos, I echo Ali's sentiments. The whole "makeshift" nature of the operator's "control room" looks pretty scary.

Also, I'd have to see more details, but the wide-open nature of the setup makes it difficult to perform effective fire-suppression in the event something "bad happens". It's interesting, but it looks to be in the "in progress" stage, rather than a fully developed cell ready for testing.

Finally: it's too bad they don't show the massive air handling at the front of the setup. To be honest, though, I wonder if this is an under-build picture rather than the final setup ready to perform testing. Normally, to move that quantity of air, you need to have a (large) closed chamber around the vehicle under test so that the air which passes the vehicle can be reducted back into the air handling inlet. The fact this is shown completely open & up in the air leads me to believe a drive-in room will probably be built around it -- that's how wind tunnels and other environmental chassis dynos are done in the industry. The operator dude would then be safely "removed from the action" behind some very heavy glass.
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I call BS! Totally PS'd. Who would create a work area like that?! No safety gear? In a "lab!?" No way. If it is real, I'd set up a video camera to catch the look on that guy's face when that car reaches 180 mph then launches out the opposite wall.

It looks like something Ricky Bobby dreamed up.
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