Stephen King

‘The Monkey’ – Osgood Perkins Previews His Fun-for-the-Family Stephen King Movie [Exclusive]

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Three horror powerhouses are coming together for The Monkey, an adaptation of the Stephen King story produced by James Wan and directed by Osgood Perkins (Longlegs). NEON will likely release The Monkey sometime in 2025, but what can you expect from Osgood Perkins’ take on the classic King story? For starters, it’s NOTHING like Longlegs. Perkins tells Bloody Disgusting’s Boo Crew […]

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Mike Flanagan’s ‘The Life of Chuck’ Heads to Toronto International Film Festival

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Mike Flanagan (Gerald’s Game, Doctor Sleep) is headed back into the world of Stephen King with The Life of Chuck, and the film has set its World Premiere this morning. The Toronto International Film Festival is getting ready to roll out the red carpets for its 49th edition from September 5–15, 2024, and we’ve learned this morning that Mike Flanagan’s The […]

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Mapping Stephen King’s Maine with Sharon Kitchens [The Losers’ Club Podcast]

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As Constant Readers, we love to wander through Stephen King‘s small towns, whether it’s the main street of Castle Rock, the barrens outside of Derry, or in the thick of the woods surrounding Harlow. But author Sharon Kitchens actually walked those paths herself in real life, and she lived to tell the tale. Well, she […]

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Stephen King’s ‘The Institute’ – Mary-Louise Parker & Ben Barnes Starring in TV Series

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Published in 2019, Stephen King‘s novel The Institute is getting a TV series adaptation from MGM+, with Deadline reporting today that the project has been given a series order. Ben Barnes (Shadow and Bone) and Mary-Louise Parker (Weeds) will star. The Institute comes from director/executive producer Jack Bender (Lost, Mr. Mercedes), writer/executive producer Benjamin Cavell (Justified, The Stand) […]

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Dusting Off Stephen King’s Earliest Stories with Bev Vincent [The Losers’ Club Podcast]

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To celebrate the release of Stephen King’s latest shortest story collection You Like It Darker, The Losers’ Club is unlocking their premiere episode of The Stephen King Archives, a Patreon exclusive imprint in which your Losers search the vault of King material – dusting off unpublished short stories, long-forgotten interviews, coffee-stained manuscripts, and alternate versions […]

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Stephen King News Roundup: On ‘The Running Man’, ‘The Long Walk’, ‘The Monkey’, and Ice T [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 Randall Colburn, McKenzie Gerber, Jenn Adams and Justin Gerber cycling through the latest Stephen […]

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The Power of Believing: Diving into Stephen King’s Fictional Tabloid ‘Inside View’

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Stephen King is an interesting follow on the site formerly known as Twitter. When not posting about politics or his latest literary find, he’s ranting about the state of the world and making observations that position him as a sort of elder statesman in the horror community. A recent tweet by the Master of Horror […]

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Stephen King’s ‘You Like It Darker’ Finds Beauty and Hope in Nihilistic Horror [Review]

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Stephen King may be known for epic novels like It and The Stand, but many Constant Readers first met the Master of Horror through his short fiction. Beginning with the iconic 1978 collection Night Shift, the best-selling author has been dazzling us for decades with short stories overflowing with sickening gore, fantastical creatures, meticulous violence, […]

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NEON Picks Up Stephen King, James Wan & Osgood Perkins Horror Movie ‘The Monkey’

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Three horror powerhouses are coming together for The Monkey, an adaptation of the Stephen King story that’s being produced by James Wan and directed by Osgood Perkins. Deadline reports this weekend that NEON has acquired the movie “following a multi-buyer tug of war,” further establishing themselves as horror powerhouses in their own right. “Multiple U.S. distributors came in hot for the […]

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‘Mr. Mercedes’ TV Series Elevates Stephen King’s Novel [The Losers’ Club Podcast]

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On August 9, 2017, a TV show premiered with two huge names attached — Stephen King (one of the most successful writers alive) and David E. Kelley (one of the most successful TV creators alive) — and no one saw it. That show? Mr. Mercedes, an adaptation of King’s 2014 novel, the first in a […]

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With ‘Mr. Mercedes’, Stephen King Accelerated Into a New Era [The Losers’ Club Podcast]

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After releasing The Colorado Kid and Joyland via the Hard Case Crime imprint, Stephen King made his grand debut into the world of hard-boiled crime fiction with Mr. Mercedes. The first in a trilogy, the 2014 novel introduced readers to Bill Hodges, a crusty, retired detective who finds his golden years interrupted by the taunts of a psychopathic killer he […]

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If You’ve Got a Taste for Mediocrity, Take ‘Carrie’ (2002) to the Prom [The Losers’ Club Podcast]

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The Losers’ Club: A Stephen King Podcast closes out April with another trip to prom with Carrie White, only this time there’s no Brian De Palma, no Sissy Spacek, and no Amy Irving. Instead, they dial back to 2002, when NBC aired a new vision of Carrie that may or may not have been the […]

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Glen Powell Starring in New Adaptation of King’s ‘The Running Man’ from Director Edgar Wright

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Originally reported way back in 2021, Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Last Night in Soho) is directing a new take on Stephen King’s The Running Man, and Paramount has announced out of CinemaCon today that Glen Powell (Top Gun: Maverick, Twisters) will star. Edward Wright will direct the brand new movie adaptation of Stephen […]

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Did ‘Carrie’ Give Birth to “Good For Her” Horror? [The Lady Killers Podcast]

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“It has nothing to do with Satan, Mama. It’s me. Me. If I concentrate hard enough, I can move things” Is it possible to go to prom these days without thinking about Carrie? Brian De Palma’s 1976 adaptation of Stephen King’s debut novel has become so ingrained in the zeitgeist that it’s nearly impossible to […]

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The Women of Carrie – Revisiting Stephen King’s Landmark Horror Novel Fifty Years Later

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For decades, Stephen King has been known as the Master of Horror. By now the prolific Maine author is a household name, known to genre fans and normies alike. He’s a central pillar of American folk horror and a major contributor to the modernization of genre fiction. But fifty years ago, Stephen King was a […]

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