Why The Best Story In Stephen King’s Night Shift Has No Movie Adaption
Horror icon Stephen King’s short story collectionNight Shift has produced a string of classic adaptations, leading some fans to wonder why one of its strongest stories has never become a movie. Stephen King’s prolific output means that the writer’s work is almost always receiving new adaptions. In 2022 alone, numerous Stephen King projects will hit the screen, with some of these movies and shows being original adaptations, some being spinoffs of recent hits, and some being remakes of earlier adaptations.
However, even though many King adaptations are successful with critics and fans alike, some of the horror icon’s most memorable works have never made it to the screen. Sometimes, it is was to see why a Stephen King story has no big-budget live-action adaptation, whether it is due to graphic content (like the infamous “Survivor Type”), the cosmic scale of the story’s horror, or both (like “The Library Policeman”). However, in other cases, it can be harder to discern why a commercial, scary Stephen King story has not yet received a movie version.
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Take, for example, “I Know What You Need” from the iconic early Stephen King short story collection Night Shift. Unlike many of Night Shift’s gorier, more action-forward stories, “I Know What You Need” is a more intimate brand of horror than King’s usual fare. This may be why the story still has no screen adaptation, as the small scale of the tale would not necessarily lend itself well to a feature-length movie version. However, “I Know What You Need”’s creepy plot still deserves to reach new fans, and a small screen adaptation could be the perfect way to make this happen.
The plot of “I Know What
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