One day Hollywood woke up and, for no reason at all, decided to make the greatest movies of the artform out of his books. Why?
>>220265138>Shawshank Redemption>The Shining>The Green Mile>Stand By Me>It>Carrie>Pet Sematary>The Dead Zone>Salem's LotHe's genuinely a legend at this point. The Academy should give him an honorary Oscar or something.
>>220265138Him being an unironic retard on twitter just makes the argument claiming he is a hack much stronger.
>>220265636Nah. If he was a hack he would have jumped on the MAGA train along with the other hacks.The fact he's a multi-millionaire and still has a shred of decency left is heart-warming. Look at JK Rowling for the opposite effect.
>>220265138>something sells millions of copies in one medium>hey we could easily transpose it to another medium and sell another million unitsThe reason is money.
>>220265881heartwarming, as you say.
>>220265997BRO YOU JUST HAVE TO HAVE PERFECT FORESIGHT SO YOURE NEVER EVER EVER RETROACTIVELY WRONG FOREVER JUST UMM LEARN HOW TO PREDICT THE FUTURE BRO LMAAAOOOOOO
>>220265997I was legitimately shocked that he wasn’t in the files.
>>220266051me too, after that tweet.
>>220266048he wasn't provoked, he didn't need to say anything, but he did and I don't even know why. Why insert himself in something that is pretty controversial and has lots of victims, while seemingly defending the right? I mean he sounds more intelligent than that.
they made a zillion movies based on his books, but only like 5% of them are decent>>220265593the It and Pet Sematary's movies are all meh.Carrie is just ok.Haven't watched Salem's Lot.You might want to add Misery, one of the best King's adaptations.
>>220265997This is a result of the Boy who cried Wolf. Right wing pundits spent decades coming up with various conspiracy theories, the bulk of which weren't true, so when one of them was finally real, a lot of people were quick to reject its legitimacy.
>>220265138>for no reason at allLots of films are based on books and he was the most famous writer in the 80s with an insane work ethic. Also assumingly not very picky about the price when it came to selling rights. Genuine retard for disliking Kubrick's Shining though.
>>220266149> Haven't watched Salem's Lot.Don't, save your time.
>>220266156>when one of them was finally realWhich one?
>>220266195The Epstein list.
>>220266180Disliking it is fine. Trying to supplant it with his own cheapo TV miniseries is retarded.
>>220265881>Look at JK Rowling for the opposite effect.Opposite effect of what? What did she do?
>>220266051Of course the irony of it was that Trump was the one in the files, not King.
>>220266231>rich guy has sex with 17 years old prostitutesFantasy of conspiracy theorists has no limits nowadays.
>>220266236JK Rowling used her fame and fortune to basically bully and harass a minority group. Many such cases.
>>220266119>I mean he sounds more intelligent than that.That's the really fun part. He isn't that intelligent. Don't get me wrong, I love the fact that he exists-he's a fascinating case study. >boomer that lives in a gated mansion part in the whitest state in the US>hasn't worked a job or lived in reality for half a century>window to the world is cable news and is totally unaware of how detached from reality and partisan it has becomeHe's so insanely arrogant and out of touch it becomes its own sort of theater. Also his inability to understand current conditions and total unwillingness to even attempt to provides me with a lot of amusement. tl;dr he's an actual retard but I love him and his wife that wrote all his books for him.
The stand was an excellent movie
>>220266323Shut the fuck you tranny. She's a 1970's rad fem that you are trying to ostracize because she's 1970's woke and not 2020's woke. You claim she's bullying trannies because you're a lying tranny faggot.
>>220266323>if you don't let us molest little girls in their dressing rooms, you are bullying usBullying should be just the beginning.
>>220266328>>hasn't worked a job or lived in reality for half a centuryThis thing in particular really, reeeealy showed in his books. Of course only until he got hit by a car, and then everything he wrote since revolved exclusively around this event. He even sabotaged his magnus opus Gunslinger over it.
>>220266798>He even sabotaged his magnus opus Gunslinger over it.Is that why the ending was underwhelming? That's all the Crimson King is? I laughed at the deus ex at the end with the painter and the weakest antagonist of all times, an antagonist he's been building up since his early books in the series.
>>220266798That probably why he has such a massive hate boner for the white working class and his total inability to understand why they would support someone like Trump. His utter confusion that someone who as watched their wages getting chipped away by mass immigration and globalism wouldn't think the same way that he does. It's also why he has to set everything in a fantasy setting or set it 40 years ago-he has no idea what modern life is actually like.
>>220266374you're sick. why do you have that shit save and spazzing out about them?
>>220267069Niggers cutting their dicks off and I'm the sick one?
>>220267069>why are you spazzing out about tranniesbecause all the janitors are trans and they're always watching
>>220266864>Is that why the ending was underwhelmingWhatever he had in mind got erased by that accident. One has to be an unprecedented faggot to write himself into a book as the most important thing in the universe and then use that book to harass the guy who hit him with a car.We will never know the original ending, so for me Gunslinger ended in fourth book.
>>220266923>It's also why he has to set everything in a fantasy setting or set it 40 years ago-he has no idea what modern life is actually like.It's one thing to draw from what you know, but whenever he introduces main character as writer, artist or freelancer, I roll my eyes.
>>220266864>>220267711He decided to basically never go dark again after the accident, probably because he just lost the cynicism and couldn't really do that anymore.It's a shame, because even though they're all kind of lame except for Rose Madder, the "abused woman" phase in his output was incredibly dark and it would've been cool to see him apply that more actual horror storiesThere's some exceptions, but it's really only like 2 or 3 books out of the 25-ish he's written since 2000
>>220265636>his daughter is a fucking dragonwait what
>>220267857Makes you wonder if he had told his wife to fuck off and kept doing coke if he would have produced some actual art at some point.
>>220267711I actually liked a lot of plot points from volumes 5 and 7 (6 was a fucking drag), but each time King goes into specifics, the good ideas fall on their fucking face. There was no fucking need to add some retarded Harry Potter stuff or mention Doctor Doom. There was no need to go into meta and even point out how Roland (who was supposed to resemble Clint Eastwood) looks similar to Stephen King. If Randall Flagg had to be killed by the fucking spider boy, so be it, but the scene looked pathetic, and so did Mordred's own death. The Crimson King? I'd be totally fine with him getting trapped with some explanation that he had to pick a fully physical form to enter the Tower or some shit - just what happened to Morgoth in Silmarillion. But King made sure the main antagonist would get no fucking dignity, looking like a fucking Santa Claus, yelling at clouds on some balcony. Fuck him.I liked the idea of a penitent time loop that gets slightly modified as a reward for Roland, though. Even though many people hated it.
>>220267911His coke problem became an actual problem, that's the issue an upper, it can be great at first because you're working harder for longer without any awful side effects, but then keep using more and then you're staying awake for 38 hours convinced that every idea you have is genius and you ruin IT by making half the book about modern-day adults and you forgot to make it interesting. And then you write the Tommyknockers.But Cujo is good cocaine King, and that was a few years earlier.
>>220267857>probably because he just lost the cynicism and couldn't really do that anymore.On the contrary, to me his post-accident books came off as incredibly bitter and small minded.
>>220267909Bug with dwarf fortress. Kind of topical with "King" and "Eyes of the dragon"
>>220268075Which? Dreamcatcher was written mostly on painkillers, and then Black House had Straub righting the ship, and then Buick 8 is like whatever, not notable in any way. Then he went balls deep back into Dark Tower because he wanted it to be finished before he died, which I guess is cynical in a way, but too much of that series becomes defined by good vibes and belief and all the villains being retarded.
>>220266328>tl;dr he's an actual retard but I love him and his wife that wrote all his books for him.Is there any evidence for this? I heard the theory that he died at a certain point and all Stephen King books written after a certain point were written by a ghost writer.
Why can’t The Dark Tower ever be truly put to film?
>>220268244My proof is that his tweets are utter retardation. Like grug tier.
>>220268271they refuse to cast a white guy as roland
>>220267857>the "abused woman" phase in his output was incredibly dark and it would've been cool to see him apply that more actual horror storiesOh no, no, no, no, no...He fucking did that with Sleeping Beauties. Which was clearly a book about him seething over Hillary Clinton losing the election. Because, of course, the only reason this happened was muh soggy knees. There was supposed to be an adaptation, but I guess someone realized how horrible that story was and dropped it.>all women in the world get wrapped in alien cocoons over night (I don't remember if he even considered time zones)>in the span of 24 hours all men in the world turn into religious zealots and sociopaths killing the cocooned women>the few of them who aren't total pieces of shit, are useless>the only women who didn't get cocooned are inmates in local prison>all of them have stories how they ended like this because of men>literally each story has logical plot holes in them>surprisingly enough, one of those women actually stands up and shits on the others, scorning them for not taking accountability for their actions>one page later an armed squad gets into the prison and shoots her (take this as you will)>eventually aliens appear and give them a choice whether all women should be taken to an alien paradise or stay on Earth>the female inmates (who hate men's guts) have to decide>and despite everything they choose to stay>everything gets better since that day, all women wake up, men become better persons>and the only fucking thing King can come up with is saying that they talk about feelings more and take care of children sometimes, because that's probably the last things remaining in a world where a woman can accuse you of rape because you looked at her on the street once 10 years ago and actually win a court case, if you're both in CaliforniaIf you think I'm exaggerating, read the fucking book. I fucking dare you.
>>220268306Smart person's brain is fatigued and/or drugged out with age.Doesn't mean they weren't legitimately smart at one point.
>>220268306that's just TDS, it ruined plenty of decent artists besides him
>>220268356>He fucking did that with Sleeping Beauties.Nigga that's like 20 years later and obviously after the accident
>>220268358>>220268376Yeah but even a tiny amount of brainpower lets you reason out that it's a dumb idea to spend a decade seething online about agitation propaganda specifically designed to make you upset. An intelligent man understands he's being wound up by the media jew and turns the tv off.
>>220268439nobody ever said he was a genius I'm sure even turbofag britcuck Clive Barker would have more nuanced leftist opinions, but if he's ever even shared them I wouldn't know
>>220268460I'm guessing Clive supports mass immigration because it increases his available supply of BBC he's not the person I would ask about a plan for a healthy nation.
>>220265138To expose him as a hack (he hated the movies because they improve on his slop)
>>220268271They can. Out of all fantasy properties, Dark Tower might be the most adaptable thing ever. Hollywood is just completely raped with competency crisis so they won't.
>>220265881Ironically, ultimately Rowling's beliefs come from a consistent hatred of men, no matter what they're wearing. She's actually more left wing than anyone.
King's strength is he comes up with good ideas. Good premises. His writing isn't that good. That makes for good movie adaptations.
>>220266048This was AFTER the files were relased. There is no client list, and frankly, his crimes are overblown. He liked young women, sometimes they ended up being 17.99 years old instead of 18. Oops.
>>220266236it's just a tranny mad that JK Rowling consistently puts women over men, including men in dressesIt's literally the only difference between her and a generic modern leftist, but modern leftists hate her permanently for this even though they don't even care about trannies anymore thanks to palestine stuff
>>220266248Trump has been exonerated, unfortunately. (no evidence of wrong doing)
>>220266323>Minority groupYou can't opt into being a minority, it's something you're born as.
>>220268624his writing at peak performance is perfectly neutralin his prime, he was the epitome of a storyteller in the sense of moving from A to B, but when you dig into the actual details of the story, the ideas he used too often, and especially his post-millennium output etc. he is brought down by his own generational success
>>220265881ON THIS BOARD JK ROWLING IS A HERO
>>220265997He didn’t believe there was an actual list. Kind of ridiculous lol
>>220265138Since we have King thread, anons can help me figure something out - what is it that ousts movie as Stephen King movie.I am ESL so his works had different names in my language, but for some reason I can almost immediately tell it is adaptation of his work. What is it.Anon here >>220265593 posted some of his work and it wildly varies in genre, directors, time of release etc. but there is always something about them.I catched Insomnia on TV, never heard of the movie, I watched ten minutes and then I went 'Oh, this is King adaptation' looked it up, and I was right. How come?
>>220265138>LEE HARVEY OSWALD ACTED ALONE>EPSTEIN LIST DOESN'T EXIST
>>220268862no, that is in no way related to the King novel of the same name
>>220268358Being a "good" writer doesn't make you smart. It makes you a "good" writer.
>>220268565Tull is unfilmable. As fucked up as tinsel town is, they will not touch that as they would not touch a certain aspect of IT.
>>220268624King's strength is his ability to talk about mundane shit and get you interested in the random people going along with that mundane shit and who are completely irrelevant to the story.
>>220266328that doesn't even crack his top 10 of leftist mitdwit tweets
>>220268997Damn, I fucked up, you are right. That's still bizarre coincidence because I didn't know King wrote a book called Insomnia.
>>220269181I meant unfilmable more on technical level, but I get what you mean.
>>220265138King is a bad Crichton
>>220265593All of them are mid
bomp
>>220265138His books were popular and social media didn't exist yet, so nobody knew what a genuine freak he was.
He sure was into child orgies.
>>220272746there's one in his 60+ novels, redditor
>>220266051They didn't release all of them.
