Comments on: Exclusive: Jonathan Demme Exits Stephen King Adaptation ’11/22/63′

By: John

John — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:58:38 +0000

This is good news, I'm tired of novels being butchered for film. The best king movies were always the closest adapted ones. And to answer another posters comment, I enjoyed the Steven Weber version of the shinning a lot more, it made more sense and had better emotion. People need to read more instead of having terrible mangled stories spoon fed to them through film.

By: Nuschler

Nuschler — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:58:38 +0000

11/22/63 was on the top ten list of best books of 2011 garnered by the New York Times. NOT best-selling books but best written books. 11/22/63 is a wonderful novel! Do yourself a favor and read it! In fact read EVERY book on both the 2011 list and 2012 list of the NY Times. Superb reading: non-fiction, fiction, it's all there…

By: Maxim

Maxim — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:58:38 +0000

Dreamcatcher had a fantastic first half. The second half was, well, weird. I wouldn't call the film anywhere close to awful though.

By: Daryl Hannah

Daryl Hannah — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:58:38 +0000

Sounds like King wants Mick Garris to adapt this shit to the letter. And be completely unremarkable at best, unwatchable at worst.

This is the guy who for the longest time didn't like the Shining after all.

King's writing does NOT work on film unless you tinker with it.

Dreamcatcher is a great example of adapting a King book with all its quirks and getting a product that is unfathomably awful.

By: MJ

MJ — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:58:38 +0000

This is kind of disappointing, it would have been interesting to see Demme take on this material, but it's true that the book is far too long for a feature to tell it with any kind of cohesion, it'd make for a great miniseries on HBO though.