What Stephen King Thinks Of Every Adaptation (Movies & TV Shows)
Stephen King is one of the most adapted authors ever, and here's a collection of the opinions he's offered about those various movies and TV shows. When someone writes as much as King, and has as high a success rate as he does, it's no wonder that Hollywood is always happy to battle over the rights to his latest novel or short story. While a sizable chunk of his catalog still has yet to be adapted, it feels like just about everything will hit the screen eventually.
Even if they don't, the more recent trend is for King's books to get adapted more than once, in some cases for the third time. Carrie is the most notable example, having become a movie in 1976, a TV movie in 2002, and a theatrical remake in 2013. That is to say, even when King retires from writing — assuming he ever does — the onslaught of King adaptations is unlikely to cease. Then again, new King material may never stop coming out either way, as it seems right up his alley to have dozens of stories in reserve for publication from beyond the grave.
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For the most part, King has a pretty laid-back attitude about the adaptations of his work. After all, his books are still available to read, even if the movie ends up being terrible. But that doesn't mean he doesn't occasionally let loose on one he particularly hates, or stop to praise one he found enjoyable. Here's what Stephen King thinks of every adaptation of his work so far.
Carrie was King's first novel, and naturally, his first hit movie adaptation. King, like most, is a big fan of Brian De Palma's movie, saying in a 1978 interview with Cinefantastique that he "liked De Palma’s film of Carrie quite a bit." He did say in a 2010 interview with Florida
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