OK?
Producer Lucas Foster recently talked to Variety and said that the upcoming movie has “almost nothing to do with” the 1984 movie, which was directed by Fritz Kiersch. He explained that they “went back to the story and free-associated from there.”
It’s said that the film “describes the events leading up to, and including, the massacre of the adults of a small town in Nebraska by their children, after the adults’ irresponsibility ruins the crop and the children’s future.”
The answer to that might actually be ‘Yeah, that’s OK.’ It depends on what happened. If the movie is straight up Oh, the adults deserved it because Gaia, then it’s gonna be a piece of crap, of course. But if it’s more Let’s say hi to Shub-Niggurath, then there’s some hope for a movie that isn’t a piece of crap. Although I guess that it’d be the male form of the Great Old One, given that He Who Walks Behind The Rows is the name of King’s monster*. Guess we’ll see!
Moe Lane
PS: I’m surprised that I want to see this, too. But then, I liked the original story a good deal. It’s one of his better ones. Maybe because it lets you know that there’s an entire bigger story there that you’re not going to hear and you’re better off that way. Close enough to hear it is close enough to be grabbed, after all.
*Say what you like about the man, but that’s a damn fine bloody corn god name. I aim for that aesthetic in my own horror fiction.
70s and 80s Steven King was a glorious, drug fueled story machine. (morality and legality aside, anecdotal evidence for substance abuse’s effectiveness exists)
90s Steven King became STEVEN KING, and once an editor can no longer say no, quality inevitably crumbles.
since the 00s, SK sobered up (ok i guess), still has no editor (ugh) and embraced the church of Leftism (never a good thing), so no more money for him from me.