In addition to announcing that her network has given a second season order to Under the Dome, CBS boss Nina Tassler revealed that Stephen King himself will be penning the script for the opening episode of the new season. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Under the Dome will return for a further 13 episodes next summer. The first season premiere […]
Michael Clarke Duncan, who played the gifted prisoner in the adaptation of Stephen King’s The Green Mile, has died aged 54. Duncan was nominated for an Academy and a Golden Globe […]
After many attempts over the years to bring it to the screen, Stephen King’s novel The Eyes of the Dragon is finally getting a live-action adaptation, courtesy of Syfy. Michael […]
The Showtime adaptation of Stephen King’s mammoth novel Under the Dome has finally got a writer, with comicbook scribe and Lost alumnus Brian K. Vaughan set to turn the thousand page novel into a workable miniseries screenplay. According to Deadline’s report, the Dreamworks series will be Showtime’s first foray into the genre field since the end of the supernatural series […]
Following Brian Grazer’s suggestion that a revised budget might make a Dark Tower movie feasible, he’s now been speaking to MTV, and strongly hinted that he and production partners Ron Howard and Akiva Goldsman found a home for the television sections of the story. “We’re going to do [The Dark Tower] with HBO,” Grazer told MTV. “We’ll do the TV with […]
According to producer Brian Grazer, Ron Howard’s ambitious adaptation of Stephen King’s seven book series The Dark Tower may now get a greenlight, after some serious pruning was made to the budget. Promoting his new movie Tower Heist, Grazer told The Playlist: “We found a way to cut out $45 million out of the budget without changing the scope and […]
Syfy has ordered a further 13 episodes of its Stephen King-based series Haven, starring Emily Rose, to air next year – probably in the same summer slot. The second series, which has just begun airing on Syfy UK, reached a slightly bigger audience than the opening season, around 2.55 million viewers. Loosely based on King’s novella The Colorado Kid, the […]
One of Stephen King’s most ambitious 21st Century novels is heading for the small screen, courtesy of Steven Spielberg and Showtime. Under the Dome, King’s 2009 magnum opus, is being […]
Fresh from his stint on the Stephen King-based Haven, former Beverly Hills 90210 star Jason Priestley has signed up to play a literary agent on the new adaptation of the King novel Bag of Bones. True Blood‘s Mayor Norris, William Schallert, has also joined the cast to play Max Devore, an elderly man who is trying to gain custody of […]
Hollywood’s resurgent love affair with the works of Stephen King is showing no signs of slowing down, with Silence of the Lambs director Jonathan Demme optioning the rights to the […]
Harry Potter screenwriter Steve Kloves and director David Yates may turn their attention to a darker fantasy as their next project: Stephen King’s epic post-apocalyptic novel The Stand. The Hollywood […]
The producers of Syfy’s Stephen King-based show Haven have created a seven-episode arc that will see newspaper owners Vince and Dave’s Twitter messages interact with events in the TV show. Syfy explains that “Vince (Richard Donat) and Dave (John Dunsworth), who run the newspaper in Haven, join Twitter as newcomers to the medium. Viewers who follow their characters (@VinceHaven, @DaveHaven) will […]
Yet another Stephen King tale is apparently on the way to the big screen, with news that Paramount Pictures wants to revive the Pet Sematary franchise. Matt Greenberg, who adapted […]
Beverly Hills 90210‘s Jason Priestley is one of many stars entering the sleepy town of Haven in the second season of the Stephen King-based Syfy show. Priestley will play Chris Weekly, who the network describes as “a handsome but anti-social marine biologist who is forced to deal with an affliction most would consider a blessing: everyone suddenly loves him and […]
Universal Studios has declined the opportunity to finance the ambitious adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower septet of novels. The project would have encompassed a trilogy of movies and […]
According to star Emily Rose, the second season of Syfy’s Haven will see characters “dying left and right.” The show, loosely based on Stephen King’s novella The Colorado Kid, is […]
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