Completely true, agree with everything you said here, yeah.

It’s all bad, and obviously people have a right to speak up when and however they please, but so much of the issue remains maddeningly non-specific.

I, too, wonder why interviewees for podcasts don’t just sit there mute the entire time.

I honestly don’t care that much that Whedon is a bully and an asshole. I assume that almost all Hollywood bigwigs are, especially directors. I would like to see the industry moving away from that but the fact is that I’ve heard just as bad (or worse) stories about almost every filmmaker out there.

Or maybe he’s just a bully, and it wasn’t about being a sexual predator. In which case this is all we’re gonna get. Not every asshole is a monster.

So apparently Nathan was asked a question about Joss, and he answered it. Why is that confusing? 

I’ll add this to the increasingly long list of reasons not to go back to Texas

The Jaunt is my favorite King short story. Incredibly creative and of course horribly fucked up. The description of the Mob shoving people into the portal with no destination set really stuck with me.

The Jaunt would be good for a shorter movie.  Mrs. Todd’s Shortcut now that’s a good one that I haven’t read in forever.  Maybe that mixed with Crouch End or Strawberry Spring somehow?

Yeah, the only ones on this list that I think need to be made into films would be a true “The Dark Tower” film (1st book), “The Talisman” and I would also add “The Jaunt” to the list. That’s a cool, creepy story with lots of potential to be a great movie, albeit with a super bummer ending. :o

I always wanted the novella (short story?) Hearts in Atlantis to be adapted. No, not that movie. The true Hearts in Atlantis story about the college kids becoming addicted to Hearts and flunking out during the beginnings of the Vietnam era. Done right, it could be a great little indie movie.

Right? How does one not at least go back and read The Talisman after enjoying Black House?

My notes:

You read Black House but not The Talisman?

I’m still mad at King for turning down Darabont for the Dark Tower and then being totally fine with Akiva Goldsman shitting all over it

Speaking of Stranger Things, I felt like King wrote The Institute almost as a response to a show that cribs almost entirely from his work (right down to the font).

Whoever was making that newer adaptation needed someone to pull them aside and remind them that The Stand has a pretty simple narrative structure that depends heavily on the building momentum of the pandemic and collapse, and so doing a non-linear narrative structure that reveals all that right from the get-go sucks. 

The second attempt at The Stand was so much worse than the first (I could only complete watching the second episode). The fact they couldn’t even get the initial collapse of civilisation due to the plague was unforgivable. At least the 1994 version nailed the opening in one of the best introductions for anything in…

The Duffer Brothers are set to develop it as a series at Netflix, following the conclusion of Stranger Things

Eyes of the Dragon was my entry point to King. I am still bummed Thomas didn’t show up in the final Dark Tower entry, still hunting after all these years for Flagg. King hinted at it for years. I guess he forgot?