Well. The bad news is, The Tommyknockers isn’t actually a very good book. I read it, and in retrospect it was fairly lurid in places, clearly written when Stephen King was in a personally dark place, and reveals the first signs of an inherent contempt for the pulp literature tradition (in this case, classic pulp science fiction) that Stephen King first sprang from, spent years being defecated on by the literary critics accordingly, and has since spent more years trying to successfully escape. His privilege, of course, and since Stephen King still gets readily published I’m sure that he doesn’t care about my opinion anyway. Assuming he would end up even ever reading it*.
The good news is that bad books often make for good movies. Geektyrant notes that producers James Wan (directing Aquaman) and Roy Lee (produced It). Since It was good and rumor has it that Aquaman promises to be good, too, this is promising. Whether it lives up to the promise is another story, of course, but there’s a good movie in that book trying to get out.
Hopefully a better one than the miniseries. I dimly remember it, but dear Lord! I remember it being bad. Not as bad as the ending of The Stand, of course. Some things you should not try to reproduce on the big screen.
Moe Lane
*In case he ever does, though… Hey, Mr. King! You know what your next book needs? A vignette about a cow’s examination of a discarded engine block in a deserted field. It’d go over well with the professors and everything; I bet they would even maybe think of it as a powerful, I don’t know, socio-political statement or something.