Lisey’s Story is coming in with a stacked deck: Directed by Pablo Larraín, starring Julianne Moore and Clive Owen, and based on a teleplay by Stephen King himself, Apple TV+’s surreal drama has all the makings of the rare Stephen King adaptation that is actually
good. Well. King adapting King can really go either way, but for the sake of this argument, we’ll mark it down in the pro column along with this excellent trailer:
Lisey’s Story looks like it really captures the novel’s blend of eeriness, longing, grief, terror, and fantasy, and who better to take on the story of a grieving widow struggling to keep her grip on reality than Pablo Larraín, the director of
Stephen King: I Don t Think Anything Is Unfilmable Now
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The legendary author opens up about adapting his own work with Apple s take on Lisey s Story.
Stephen King doesn t think anything is unfilmable now.
The prolific author has seen many of his works adapted for film and television including CBS All Access
The Stand, HBO s
It franchise and singled out the personal nature of bringing
Lisey s Storyto life on Apple as perhaps one of the bigger challenges in adapting his vast library. Be all the way in, as much as possible, or be all the way out, King said Friday about his philosophy for bringing his work to the screen. There s been a lot of projects [where it s like] step back, write books, maybe something will come along, a passion project, and this was that, a passion project.