King Talks Later On GMA
Posted: March 2, 2021, 21:57
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My thoughts On Later
Posted: March 2, 2021, 09:54
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Today Later is released and here are my thoughts about the book.Later is a nice little book with quite few characters for a King book but as usual they are what carries the story forward. And the story is an interesting one. It might sound like something you have read or seen before but not quite with this twist that King has put upon it.
King on GMA
Posted: March 1, 2021, 21:22
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New Interview With King
Posted: March 1, 2021, 16:20
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King Promoting Later
Posted: February 28, 2021, 22:41
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Elevation As A Feature Film?
Posted: February 26, 2021, 18:30
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Jack Bender who’s done Under The Dome, Mr. Mercedes, and The Outsider is turning Elevation into a movie. Here is what he says about it:He is very generous about that when it works. I've recently adapted a book of his called Elevation, which we're going to make into a film. And I invented some stuff and added, and was nervous because he'd never read anything I've written, only directed and produced. And needless to say I was nervous about it, but he loved it. He's very gracious, and he knows that when we make a TV show, there's going to be stuff added stuff taken away; that's just the way it goes.
King Talks Later In New Interview
Posted: February 25, 2021, 22:59
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Here is a new interview with King about the upcoming book Later.Gwendy's Final Task To Be Released In 2022
Posted: February 25, 2021, 03:28
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Thanks to Bryant Brunette
Time To Slaughter Pet Sematary Once Again?
Posted: February 25, 2021, 01:19
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All I can say is: WHY?
Thanks to Herbert West.
Keith Thomas Talks Firestarter Remake
Posted: February 24, 2021, 23:59
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“It’s something I’ve thought a lot about. And, certainly, when [Firestarter] first came to me, I was very lucky in that the script by Scott Teems, who wrote the upcoming Halloween Kills, was just very, very good, and very rich. The material itself isn’t different, right? I mean, it’s the same book that this film is drawing from, the one the earlier film did. But what we’re leaning into from the book is different. That’s the angle where you can do something. So, for me, it was really leaning into more emotional aspects. It was leaning into parenthood and what that looks like, and then, how do you raise a child, especially a child with abilities like this. That was the place the script went and I thought that it was something that’s a little different than the original film.”
“Also, the book’s super-rich. There’s a lot of stuff that’s in the book that isn’t in the original film. There’s stuff in there that we’re using, that we’re going into. At the same time, I feel like, just for me, in terms of the films I’m interested in, I feel like there’s a visceral quality to the story that I didn’t see in the ’80s version, a rawness that I think is there in the book, that I certainly felt, that I’m really interested in diving into. And, luckily, I think everybody else involved feels the same way, that this is going to be … not only will it have the effects and you’re going to get to see all the stuff Charlie can do, which is fun, and cool, and exciting, but if we do it right, it’s not so much as dark as The Vigil, but you should come out of it emotionally. If you do it right, it’s going to really hit that way.”
“The screenplay is by Scott Teems who wrote the upcoming Halloween Kills, it’s an amazing script. It has everything you would want; people’s heads catching fire and their faces melting off, and a dad and daughter on the run trying to survive being chased in this heightened tense experience.”
The Jaunt To Be Developed For MRC Television
Posted: February 24, 2021, 22:54
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As part of the deal, Erickson is developing The Jaunt, based on King's 1981 Stephen King short story.
Now I Make My Stand
Posted: February 24, 2021, 12:09
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Here are my thoughts on The Stand.The show is good and well worth seeing but not the masterpiece I was hoping for. Oh, and they should have spent the time and money needed to create the Lincoln tunnel scene. The sewers are very flat in comparing and not scary at all if you ask me.
The Cast Of Lisey's Story
Posted: February 23, 2021, 11:49
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Here is the main cast of Lisey's Story listed by Apple TV+.
Julianne Moore as Lisey Landon
Clive Owen as Scott Landon
Jennifer Jason Leigh as Darla
Joan Allen as Amanda
Dane DeHaan as Jim Dooley
Ron Cephas Jones as Professor Dashmiel
Sung Kang as Officer Dan Beckman.
King On Tiny Horrors
Posted: February 23, 2021, 10:35
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“I talked with JJ Abrams a lot about a possible anthology series of tiny horrors,” King said. “We got really down and dirty about it and talked about things that were really, really scary.”
King & Abrams Plan Anthology Called Tiny Horrors
Posted: February 20, 2021, 17:51
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King also noted that he and Abrams have been discussing a horror anthology called Tiny Horrors. (Additional details on the project were not immediately available.)
King Talks Lisey’s Story
Posted: February 20, 2021, 17:44
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"Lisey's Story means a lot to me because it's the one I love best," King told reporters Friday. "It's a story about love and marriage and the creative impulse and it's also got a kickass villain in it, which I liked a lot."
New Adaptation Of The Running Man
Posted: February 20, 2021, 01:57
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Paramount Pictures is making a deal with Edgar Wright to direct a new adaptation of The Running Man. This won’t be a remake of the 1987 film with Arnold Schwarzenegger though. This time they will be much more faithful to King’s book. Michael Bacall will write the script and Simon Kinberg will produce.
Lisey's Story Coming To Apple TV+ This Summer
Posted: February 19, 2021, 23:57
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Julianne Moore and Clive Owen are the stars of a small screen adaptation of Stephen King‘s Lisey’s Story that’s coming to Apple TV+, with Moore playing the title character and Owen co-starring as her late husband. Dane Dehaan, Joan Allen, and Sung Kang will also star.
The 8-hour limited series is written by King, who will also executive produce. J.J. Abrams is on board to produce through Bad Robot Productions.
The Ten O’Clock People For TV
Posted: February 18, 2021, 16:31
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The new company is also soon to go out with a TV take on The Ten O’Clock People, Stephen King’s short story about a group of people in authority who are monsters disguised as people.
Thanks to Bryant Burnette.
Hard Case Crime Box Set
Posted: February 17, 2021, 15:50
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The set will also include three exclusive art cards showing a variant cover of each book – the original Glen Orbik cover for The Colorado Kid, the Robert McGinnis limited-edition hardcover cover for Joyland and the Greg Manchess limited-edition hardcover cover for Later.
The set will be released on September 14 but you can pre-order your set over at Amazon.com
My Interview With Angelina Kekich About The Stand
Posted: February 16, 2021, 08:06
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Celebrate Our 25-Year Anniversary With Marv
Posted: February 15, 2021, 11:08
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But let me warn you. As the Library Policeman he is he demands attention and silence and if you don’t give him what he wants he might use his trusty pliers to expand his necklace with your tongue…
My Interview With Aaron Haye About The Stand
Posted: February 15, 2021, 08:02
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Important Scene Cut From The Stand
Posted: February 12, 2021, 08:17
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Seems there was a quite important scene cut from The Stand…What do you think? Would you have wanted to see that scene or was it right to cut it?
Rainbird Cast In New Firestarter Movie
Posted: February 11, 2021, 10:35
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Michael Greyeyes has been cast as Rainbird and the project is currently in the works from Universal Pictures, Blumhouse Productions and Weed Road Pictures.
What do you say? Do you want a new Firestarter movie?
Willie The Weirdo; Brand New King Story
Posted: February 3, 2021, 10:16
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You can pre-order your copy here.
More info to come...
Billy Summers Arrives In The UK August 3rd
Posted: January 29, 2021, 21:04
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Billy Summers Page Count
Posted: January 29, 2021, 14:50
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Scribner lists Billy Summers to have 528 pages. That is about the same as The Institute (576 pages).
A Winter Evening With Stephen King
Posted: January 29, 2021, 02:04
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- For the last two months King have been working on a new book and this one will probably be long.
- Even though The Dark Tower is always present King has no plans to write a new Dark Tower book. He’s not saying never but he don’t see it happening.
I wish there would have been more questions about King’s work (Later and Billy Summers in particular) but all in all it was a good event. It was also one question though (that we would all have wanted to heard the answer to) that King missed. That question was “Will there be a third Talisman book soon”. I guess we’ll have to wait and see...
Billy Summers Arrives August 3rd
Posted: January 28, 2021, 21:36
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Billy Summers is a man in a room with a gun. He’s a killer for hire and the best in the business. But he’ll do the job only if the target is a truly bad guy. And now Billy wants out. But first there is one last hit. Billy is among the best snipers in the world, a decorated Iraq war vet, a Houdini when it comes to vanishing after the job is done. So what could possibly go wrong?
How about everything.
This spectacular can’t-put-it-down novel is part war story, part love letter to small town America and the people who live there, and it features one of the most compelling and surprising duos in King fiction, who set out to avenge the crimes of an extraordinarily evil man. It’s about love, luck, fate, and a complex hero with one last shot at redemption.
You won’t put this story down, and you won’t forget Billy.
Here is a very short excerpt from the book.
"Two million. Five hundred thousand up front, the rest after."
Billy's whistle isn't part of the act, which he doesn't think of as an act but his dumb self, the one he shows to guys like Nick and Frank and Paulie. It's like a seatbelt. You don't use it because you expect to be in a crash, but you never know who you might meet coming over a hill on your side of the road. This is also true on the road of life, where people veer all over the place and drive the wrong way on the turnpike.
"Why so much?" The most he's ever gotten on a contract was seventy K. "It's not a politician, is it? Because I don't do that."
"Not even close."
"Is it a bad person?"
Nick laughs, shakes his head, and looks at Billy with real affection. "Always the same question with you."
Billy nods.
The dumb self might be a shuck, but this is true: he only does bad people. It's how he sleeps at night. It goes without saying that he has made a living working for bad people, yes, but Billy doesn't see this as a moral conundrum. He has no problem with bad people paying to have other bad people killed. He basically sees himself as a garbageman with a gun.
"This is a very bad person."
Source: EW
Script For Black House Released
Posted: January 20, 2021, 14:44
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Borderlands Press are publishing the script for a movie version of Black House. The script is written by Richard Chizmar and Jonathan Schaech.For our 14th title in Series III, we give you a fantastic offering from publishing Living Legend, feature film producer, and bestselling writer, Richard Chizmar and Hollywood actor Jonathan Schaech.
BLACK HOUSE: A Screenplay written by Richard Chizmar & Jonathan Schaech
Based on the bestselling novel by Stephen King & Peter Straub
Commissioned by Akiva Goldsman, Academy Award winning writer and producer of A Beautiful Mind, Cinderella Man, and The Dark Tower.
Never produced because of complications with The Talisman rights.
The book will be released on March 6, 2021, limited to 750 copies numbered and signed by the screenwriters.
The Art And The Making of The Stand Out In May
Posted: January 5, 2021, 16:16
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The Art And The Making of The Stand takes readers behind the scenes of this much-anticipated series to discover how a remarkable group of producers and actors brought Stephen King’s genre-defining opus to screen. The book is full to the brim with on-set photography, concept art and more, accompanied by interviews with the crew and all-star cast alongside the shooting script for the never-before-published coda written for the new series by King himself.
Written by Andy Burns, The Art And The Making of The Stand is set to publish in hardback on May 4, 2021, priced at $45.
Seth Numrich To Narrate Later
Posted: January 4, 2021, 08:27
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2020, what happened? 2021, what will happen?
Posted: December 29, 2020, 20:26
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2021 will, when it comes to King, be an even better year. Here is what’s confirmed.
- The Stand will continue with one episode / week until it’s conclusion on February 11.
- Later will be out on March 2.
- A second book from King will be out during 2021. We don’t know the title or the release date yet, but a guess is that it’s the book about an assassin that he’s talked about and that it will be out in the fall. This has not been confirmed yet though.
- A new Children of the Corn movie is done and will be released in 2021. No release date has been set.
We also have a few things that probably will happen but that haven't been confirmed yet.
- The TV series Chapelwaite will probably air. The show isn’t finished yet, but my guess is that it will be and will air during 2021.
- TV series version of Lisey’s Story will air on Apple TV+. This is not confirmed but when the pandemic happened, they had a few weeks left of shooting so a guess is that they will finish that, edit it and air it before 2021 is over. Probably late in the year.
- Gwendy’s Final Task (third book about Gwendy) seems to be pretty much done so I would be very surprised if it’s not out in 2021. No date has been confirmed yet though and some talk about 2022 has been heard...
Beside all this there is a lot, and I mean a lot, of stuff that has been mentioned but I choose not to list them here because with the current situation in the world and the limited information we have about these projects it seems unlikely to me that they’ll be ready for 2021. But we’ll see. If I’m wrong I’ll be sure to post it on Lilja’s Library! King will probably throw in a few surprises as well during the year in the form of a short story or two…
Last, I also want to take the opportunity to thank you all for your support during 2020. As you know I love to talk Stephen King and you all give me that opportunity so thank you for that! I also want to thank all of you who have bought my book Shining in the Dark. It was released in four new physical editions this year in Brazil, Sweden, Japan and France. But we haven’t seen the end of that book. At least two new translations are lined up for 2021!
And with that I thank you for 2020 and wish you all a great 2021 where I hope we’ll be seeing a lot of each other in one way or the other.
No Revival For Mike Flanagan
Posted: December 27, 2020, 00:25
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In a disappointing update however, Flanagan has confirmed that his version of the movie isn't happening.
It was in the podcast ”The Company Of The Mad” that Flanagan confirmed this was the case.
Shining In The Dark Out In Greece July 1st
Posted: December 24, 2020, 01:28
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My Spoiler Free Review Of The Stand
Posted: December 16, 2020, 09:30
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I know that most of you don’t want to know too much of what happens in advance when it comes to the new TV series based on The Stand (even though we all know the plot) so here is a spoiler free review with my thoughts about the first four episodes in it I focus on some of the concerns we had before seeing the show and how well the cast works.King On TV Series Based On His Books
Posted: December 15, 2020, 13:12
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A Winter Evening With Stephen King
Posted: December 15, 2020, 10:10
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A Winter Evening with Stephen KingJanuary 28, 2021 from 7pm to 8pm
If you become a member of the Friends of Charlotte Hobbs Memorial Library before January 21, 2021 you are invited to be our guest at a very special event, A Winter Evening with Stephen King on Thursday January 28, 2021 from 7pm to 8pm.
A world-renowned author, humanitarian, philanthropist, and activist, Stephen King is also a neighbor and friend to many in the Lovell area.
JOIN US as Stephen talks about his deep connection to Maine, takes questions, and reads from his novel, Bag of Bones, which was loosely based on the town of Lovell where he and his family have been summer residents since 1980. We look forward to spending an evening with Stephen and hope you can join us for this live online event.
Each Friends membership, whether individual or family or a gift*, will receive a unique Zoom link (which can’t be shared) to participate in this event. After you have joined our organization, either by downloading our membership form and mailing it in with a check or through PayPal you will receive an email with details. Students can become a Friend for $5 and Individuals can become a member for as little as $25.
*When making a gift membership through PayPal, please provide us with contact information of the person receiving the gift in the 'ADD A NOTE' field.
More Photos From The Stand
Posted: December 8, 2020, 16:37
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Photos From The Stand
Posted: December 8, 2020, 08:21
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10 Days Until The Stand Premiers
Posted: December 7, 2020, 16:31
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10 days until The Stand premiers and three things I wanted to make you aware of, things that have been reported differently from site to site.1. There will be 9 episodes. Some sites say 10 and that was the plan but there will only be 9.
2. This version is based on the uncut version of the book. This is probably the case since they were going to include the character ”The Kid” who only appear in the uncut version.
3. The show will have a new ending. Well...there will be a continuation of the story. King wrote the last episode and is telling us what happened after the book ended. So not a new ending but a very interesting continuation of the book. Here is what creator Josh Boone say about it:
“King wrote us a lovely coda, which is sort of the story he’s wanted to tell for a long time that takes place immediately after The Stand that provides an additional resolution for Franny, who’s sort of not involved in the climax of the book, which I thought was really, really brilliant and a deeply moving script. I was so moved to get to go make it.”
King To Appear In The Stand
Posted: December 4, 2020, 14:22
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Eagle-eyed Stephen King fans are going to want to pay close attention to all nine episodes of CBS All Access’ The Stand, because the author is going to show up in a cameo just like he did for the 1994 miniseries.
Today at the Television Critics Association virtual panel presentation of CBS All Access’ The Stand, showrunner Benjamin Cavell told SYFY WIRE and other outlets that asked about King making an appearance that, “I would say there’s a chance you may see him this time.”
Take A Stand Around The World
Posted: December 3, 2020, 16:06
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As reported earlier The Stand will premier on December 17th in the US. The same day it will also premier in Sweden on HBO Nordic which means (when you calculate the time difference of 6 to 9 hours) that Sweden will actually air the show before the US. HBO Nordic will then continue with a new episode each Thursday (same as the US).
It has also been revealed (by ClubStephenKing) that Starzplay channel have revealed, through a press release, that they have bought the international rights and will air the show in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latin America, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and United Kingdom from Sunday January 3, 2021.
Gwendy Is Back
Posted: November 29, 2020, 23:25
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Shining In The Dark Turns 3 Years!
Posted: November 26, 2020, 15:49
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All this during a three-year period. Not bad if you ask me!
Cover And Illustrations For Later
Posted: November 19, 2020, 10:40
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Ezra Miller Is Trashcan Man In The Stand
Posted: November 18, 2020, 20:51
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Ezra Miller has a big and somewhat secret role in The Stand. He plays Trashcan Man and today EW has the first photo of him in character. The casting details have been kept under wraps until now, after months of speculation that goth rocker Marilyn Mason was cast in the role. However, Manson was originaly scheduled to play another role in the show...
“We were talking to [Manson] early on about playing The Kid, who drives Trashcan Man to Vegas,” Cavell reveals. The showrunner noted he was initially excited to include The Kid because he’s a colorful character from King’s extended version of The Stand who wasn’t in the previous 1994 miniseries adaptation of the material. But during the writing process, Cavell realized – as presumably did King when he completed his first edition of the book – there just wasn’t enough of a reason to have the character in the story. “We thought we were going to be able to restore the character of The Kid, but there really isn’t a lot of reason for The Kid to exist."
Limited Later Map
Posted: November 17, 2020, 21:09
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Here is King's tweet about it.
Thanks to Ami Sandler
Limited Later
Posted: November 17, 2020, 16:11
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The Lettered Edition: Limited to 26 copies, signed on tip-in sheets by Stephen King and packaged in a stylish black traycase with ribbon, styled with the Hard Case Crime logo.
The Numbered Edition: Limited to 374 copies, signed on tip-in sheets by Stephen King.
The Unsigned Hardcover Edition: Limited to 2500 copies.
The hardcover limited editions all feature two exclusive covers painted by acclaimed artist Gregory Manchess, each on its own separate dustjacket. These covers are variants to the standard trade paperback edition. The bonus jacket is a mock-up cover of The Secret of Roanoke by Regis Thomas, a fictitious novel that features prominently in the plot of Later.
Each hardcover edition also includes eight original exclusive illustrations by artist Rob Gale and the back cover features an exclusive map created especially for this Limited Edition in the classic “mapback” art style by artist Robert Hack, a reading ribbon, head and tail bands and quality endpapers.
Read more and check out an excerpt here
