After both
It and
The Tommyknockers scored high ratings for ABC, the network agreed to greenlight an ambitious adaptation of
The Stand, King s 1978 epic about the survivors of an infectious disease that has killed more than 99 per cent of the human race. Adapted by King himself and directed by his friend and frequent collaborator Mick Garris, the result is faithful and cohesive; the author likened it to other shows born of singular creative visions, like
Godless and
The Queen s Gambit. Mick directed everything, and I wrote everything, so there was never any sense of unevenness in the way they worked. It had one single style all the way through it, King said. Mick loved the book and was dedicated to the idea that we would just do the book, which is what we did. ABC spent a lot of money on it.
For more than 40 years, Stephen King stories have been horrifying audiences, with many of those stories translating well to live-action adaptations on screens both big and small, but of all of the TV projects that have been based on his unsettling adventures, his favorite is the three-part Storm [.]
Stephen King s Surprising Pick For His Favorite TV Adaptation Of His Work
Stephen King s Surprising Pick For His Favorite TV Adaptation Of His Work ABC
By Liam Mathews/Dec. 18, 2020 12:40 pm EDT
The Stand, is somewhere in the middle). But the legendary author s favorite TV version of his work may surprise you. It s not, technically speaking, actually an adaptation at all. In a recent interview with the
New York Times, King said his favorite TV project is
Storm of the Century, a three-part horror miniseries for which he wrote an original script that aired on ABC in 1999. That is my absolute favorite of all of them, King said. I loved Colm Feore as Linoge, and I loved the story, King said. They filmed it in Southwest Harbor in Maine in the wintertime and they got the snow, so you get the sense of this awesome blizzard and the people trapped in it. They did a terrific job.
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If you were to ask a room full of 20 Stephen King fans what their favorite TV project from the author is, there s a chance that you could 20 different answers. The Master of Horror s works have been seen as terrific fodder for the small screen ever since Tobe Hooper s
Salem s Lot first aired in late 1979, and it s a legacy that includes fantastic titles like Tommy Lee Wallace s
IT from 1990, Mick Garris
The Stand from 1994, and Bridget Carpenter s 11.22.63 from 2016. Every Constant Reader has their own preference, but if there s one title that the author himself feels deserving of being singled out, it s Craig R. Baxley s excellent