Stephen King

‘The Life of Chuck’ TIFF Review – Mike Flanagan’s Uplifting Celebation of Life At the End of the World

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It’s not the horror that makes prolific author Stephen King‘s works so compelling, though it certainly helps, but rather his talent for capturing the nuanced multitudes of the human condition. His three-dimensional characters leap off the pages and into Constant Readers’ hearts, ensuring their emotional journeys resonate with or without horror. It’s something writer/director Mike […]

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Two-Minute Clip from the New ‘Salem’s Lot’ Movie Prepares for a Barlow Sighting

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The long-awaited adaptation of Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot from director Gary Dauberman (Annabelle Comes Home) is finally hitting Max this October, and Entertainment Weekly ran a preview piece today that includes the first clip from the new movie. The outlet explains, “In EW’s exclusive clip from Salem’s Lot, Ben [Lewis Pullman] and Susan [Makenzie Leigh] join Alfre Woodard as Dr. […]

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Stephen King Gets Gritty and Nasty In the Best of ‘The Bazaar of Bad Dreams’ [The Losers’ Club Podcast]

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Stephen King considers himself a novelist, but he loves a good short story. There’s something to be said for a shorter, more intense experience. It can be invigorating, sometimes even shocking, like a waltz with a stranger you will never see again, or a kiss in the dark, or a beautiful curio for sale laid […]

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‘The Life of Chuck’ – First Images Preview Mike Flanagan’s Next Stephen King Movie

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Mike Flanagan (Gerald’s Game, Doctor Sleep) returns to the world of Stephen King with The Life of Chuck, and Vanity Fair has shared a gallery of first-look images this week. Tom Hiddleston plays the title character in the film, based on the 2020 Stephen King short story of the same name. The film will World Premiere at the […]

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‘The Bazaar of Bad Dreams’ Brings Out the Poetic Side to Stephen King [The Losers’ Club Podcast]

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Like most of his Constant Readers, Stephen King certainly has his own share of fears. Trying his hand in any literary form is not one of them, however, a notion he once again proves in his 2015 collection The Bazaar of Bad Dreams. Spanning 20 tales, a number of them include his knack at poetry… […]

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Two More Cast in TV Series Adaptation of Stephen King’s ‘The Institute’

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Published in 2019, Stephen King‘s novel The Institute is getting a TV series adaptation from MGM+, with Deadline reporting on the latest casting news this afternoon. Simone Miller (Run The Burbs) and Jason Diaz (Vampire Academy) have joined a cast that includes Ben Barnes (Shadow and Bone) and Mary-Louise Parker (Weeds). Deadline details in today’s report, “Miller plays Kalisha, a sarcastic-but-friendly Institute […]

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Stephen King’s ‘Hearts in Suspension’ Tackles Echoes of an Obdurate Past [The Losers’ Club Podcast]

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Constant Listeners, yes, we originally planned to drop our Bazaar of Bad Dreams coverage this week. However, given Stephen King’s renewed interest in Hearts in Suspension, we opted to unlock our coverage of the collection from The Stephen King Archives. For those not in the know, The Stephen King Archives is our Patreon exclusive imprint […]

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‘The Monkey’ Teaser Trailer – Osgood Perkins and James Wan Adapt Stephen King

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An adaptation of the Stephen King story, horror movie The Monkey is headed our way in early 2025 from NEON, producer James Wan and director Osgood Perkins (Longlegs). The Monkey will release in theaters February 21, 2025. Watch the official teaser trailer for The Monkey below. [Related] Osgood Perkins Previews His Fun-for-the-Family Stephen King Movie The Monkey is a short horror story that appeared […]

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‘Mr. Mercedes’ Season Two Swaps Out ‘Finders Keepers’ for ‘End of Watch’ — To Mixed Results [The Losers’ Club Podcast]

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In 2018, the second season of David E. Kelley’s adaptation of Stephen King’s Mr. Mercedes aired once again on the Audience Network. Instead of adapting the second book in the true crime novel franchise — 2015’s Finders Keepers — the show’s sophomore season jumped ahead to the finale of the Mercedes trilogy, 2016’s End of […]

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HBO Shares Bloody New Teaser Footage for “Welcome to Derry”

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HBO returns to the world of Stephen King’s horror classic IT with the upcoming prequel series “Welcome to Derry,” being unleashed on both HBO and Max sometime next year. Watch a short bit of brand new teaser footage below… Taylour Paige (Zola), Jovan Adepo (“Watchmen”), Chris Chalk (“Perry Mason”), James Remar (Oppenheimer), Madeleine Stowe (Revenge) and Stephen Rider (Daredevil) will star in the upcoming series, […]

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Stephen King News Roundup: On ‘Always Holly’, ‘The Long Walk’, ‘The Institute’, and More [The Losers’ Club Podcast]

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The heat is on across King’s Dominion. To cool off,  The Losers’ Club put on their shades, put the top down on their 1958 Plymouth Fury convertible, and feel the breeze in Hollywood King. It’s another high-octane news episode that finds Losers Michael Roffman, Dan Pfleegor, Justin Gerber, and Dan Caffery cycling through the latest […]

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Judy Greer and Mark Hamill Join Lionsgate’s ‘The Long Walk’

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The cast continues to get bigger and more impressive now that production is underway on Lionsgate’s The Long Walk, an adaptation of Stephen King’s 1979 novel. Deadline reports that  Judy Greer (Halloween 2018, Cursed) and Mark Hamill (The Life of Chuck, “The Fall of the House of Usher”) are the latest additions. Francis Lawrence (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of […]

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‘The Long Walk’ – Stephen King Movie Adaptation Expands Cast as Filming Begins

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Francis Lawrence (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes) is on board to direct an adaptation of Stephen King’s 1979 novel The Long Walk, and Deadline brings news of new cast additions now that production is underway. Francis Lawrence directs from a script by JT Mollner (Strange Darling). Stephen King penned The Long Walk under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. First […]

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Stephen King Dreamt Up Another Deranged Super Fan in ‘Finders Keepers’ [The Losers’ Club Podcast]

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After taking a quick (and bleak) detour with the macabre Revival, Stephen King returned to the characters he introduced in 2014’s Mr. Mercedes with 2015’s Finders Keepers. The second in a trilogy of novels about aging detective Bill Hodges, Finders Keepers follows a young boy whose discovery of a trunk filled with cash (and moleskin notebooks) puts him in the crosshairs […]

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Stephen King’s ‘The Dark Tower’: Revisiting The Battle of Jericho Hill [The Losers’ Club Podcast]

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Today, The Losers’ Club: A Stephen King Podcast is unlocking the debut episode of the Dark Tower Detour, their Patreon-exclusive series that studies the minutiae of Roland Deschain’s epic quest. Hosted by Dan Pfleegor and Dan Caffrey, this sidecast covers a range of topics that interest those who remember the face of their father. No […]

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