Stephen king a perfect marriage6/29/2023 The one movie King ever directed, and … well, you know, Stephen King is a wonderful writer who should probably stick with writing. (For the purposes of this list, we looked at theatrical releases only, and excluded Lawnmower Man, an “adaptation” so vastly different from the original that King sued to get his name off it.) With one notable exception, you’ll find the adapted movies turned out much like King himself: They got more serious and substantial with age. Nonetheless, with the latest King adaptation, The Boogeyman, now in theaters, we gave it the old college try. As his canvas (and reputation) has expanded over the years, his work has been turned into dramas, comedies, musicals, and even a Bollywood movie.īecause of this dissonance, ranking King movies is particularly difficult: The Mangler and The Shawshank Redemption barely seem to exist on the same plane of dimensional existence, let alone on the same list of movies. Sure, a lot of them are horror (certainly a lot of the worst are horror), but that’s largely because the boom period for King movies was the 1980s, when he was known solely as a horror writer. Stephen King’s work has been adapted so many times - sometimes by King himself - that it’s impossible to find a single unifying thread in all of the film adaptations. This story originally ran in 2017 and has been updated to reflect recent releases. Castle Rock Entertainment Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images
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