5 Remakes of Bad Stephen King Adaptations That Should Get Fast Tracked

movieline.com — The latest trend by producers in Hollywood, is to remake and reboot movies we all loved as kids. If you're gonna remake anything, at least make it better than the original. Here are five bad Stephen King adaptations that should get remade. Apr 8, 2011 View in Crawl 4

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5 Remakes of Bad Stephen King Adaptations That Should Get Fast Tracked

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boson3 Apr 9, 2011

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The trend to "reboot" movies is simply because Hollywood is out of good ideas. Ruining comic books was never the way to refilling their pockets (Toby McGuire WORST choice evar for Spiderman), but taking literature and trying to bend it to fit today's screen--- bad choice. You can't take 800 pages of Stephen King and put it on the screen unless you distill all of the essence out.

The problem today is that every Hollywood movie they crap out is forced to follow a specific set of rules: running time of 2h or less, a specific number of explosions, dead bodies, gallons of blood. A specific number of swear words. Soundtrack must feature at least one (c)rap song. Actor/esses must be the latest "beautiful" people, talent need not apply; we can green-screen and autotune the talent in. And green screen? Must have CGI up the rear. Not need to find real visual locations when we can make it all up. If voice acting is required, must also be done by somebody famous, unique voices not required, talent optional obviously.

The story isn't as important as the action sequences, appearance by the latest famous actor/esses, or the amount of graphics to wow ya. And I won't even mention that 3D is only a sales gimmick.

torchednoodle Apr 9, 2011

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"It" was something like 1100 pages. If viewers thought the last half hour of the miniseries was disappointing, imagine reading over 1050 pages of a fairly suspenseful, terrifying novel about a killer clown that abducted and murdered kids, only to find out in the last 50 pages that the clown is really just a giant f**king spider in an underground lair that feeds on kid's nightmares. Ridiculous.

I got the feeling reading it that Stephen King must have gotten to the point where he didn't realize how to end the book and the deadline was the next day, so he just gave up on the last 50 pages.