Starting with Carrie, Stephen King has been adapted by more than fifty directors and had eighty or more films and series filmed. The beauty of King On Screen is that it brings together nearly every living director who worked on these films, including Tom Holland (The Langoliers, Thinner), Mick Garris (The Stand, Sleepwalkers), Frank Darabont (The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption, The Mist), Taylor Hackford (Dolores Claiborne), Mike Flanagan (Dr. Sleep, Gerald's Game), Mark Lester (Firestarter), Mikael Håfström (1408), Josh Boone (The Stand), Tom McLoughlin (Sometimes They Come Back), Lewis Teague (Cujo, Cat's Eye), Fraser C. Heston (Needful Things), Craig R. Baxley (Storm of the Century, Rose Red, Kingdom Hospital), Mikael Salomon (Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King), Scott Hicks (Hearts In Atlantis), David Carson (Carrie 2002), John Harrison (Creepshow, Creepshow 2), Zak Hilditch (1922), Greg Nicotero (Shudder's Creepshow), Vincenzo Natali (In the Tall Grass), Tod Williams (Cell) and so many more.
Director Daphné Baiwir starts this with a sequence that takes you directly into nearly every one of King's stories. If you love the author, you're going to have so much fun going back in and out of this scene to see how many references you can catch. My wife is a fan, so she was excited to see Jeffrey DeMunn show up, as he was in The Shawshank Redemption, Storm of the Century, The Green Mile and The Mist.
Don't expect anyone to knock any of these movies -- well, the movie leans too much toward like The Shining TV movie but these are all friends of King -- but if you're watching this, there's a pretty great chance that you don't have too many bad things to say about any Stephen King movies.
The part of this that I loved the most was more about Tom Hanks, as Frank Darabont discusses just how giving he is to everyone on set.
Director Daphné Baiwir starts this with a sequence that takes you directly into nearly every one of King's stories. If you love the author, you're going to have so much fun going back in and out of this scene to see how many references you can catch. My wife is a fan, so she was excited to see Jeffrey DeMunn show up, as he was in The Shawshank Redemption, Storm of the Century, The Green Mile and The Mist.
Don't expect anyone to knock any of these movies -- well, the movie leans too much toward like The Shining TV movie but these are all friends of King -- but if you're watching this, there's a pretty great chance that you don't have too many bad things to say about any Stephen King movies.
The part of this that I loved the most was more about Tom Hanks, as Frank Darabont discusses just how giving he is to everyone on set.