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NEWS > ENTERTAINMENT > STEPHEN KING SKETCHES OUT NEWEST MOVIE SALE
STEPHEN KING SKETCHES OUT NEWEST MOVIE SALE
September 30 2009
Bangor, ME – There has never been a writer as successful as Stephen King. Throughout the history of short stories and novels, many have won awards and acclaim but none have ever come close to King’s sales numbers. That success has 
given the writer a tremendous amount of power over the publishing industry and the film industry. Never before has an artist had the same level of synergy with another art form as King has had with the film industry, a relationship that will likely continue as long as the man himself does.
Much of his success has of course been intrinsically entwined with the success of the silver screen adaptations, something King himself has long been aware of. Now the author, in an exclusive interview with Scrape TV News has laid out his plans to publish his latest movie adaptation something he plans on doing for as long as he can sit at a word processor.
“I’m not going to give out specifics of the newest work but I will say that it will feature a great deal of supernatural horror and be about 500 pages long. Obviously, that’s a little long for a film but I’ve always felt that it’s best to just write the story that’s in your heart and then worry about how to make it work on the big screen. The only way you can honestly tell the story is to just put it all out there on the page,” said King from Bangor home. “That can make it tough getting it down to a two hour movie but that’s the process. I’ve toyed with the idea of writing sorter novels in order to allow easier adaptations but it hardly ever works. As I’ve said before I have diarrhoea of the word processor and I’ve never been able to cure that.”
King has been largely absent from the big screen in recent years, something he attributes to the accident that nearly claimed his life in 1999.
“It’s been a long time since I’ve been on the big screen and that is something that has
really been bothering me. Something changed n my mind and my soul that day and it made it a lot more difficult to produce movies adaptations in the same way. I think it had something to do with the interruption to my life. I think it kind of played with my groove but I feel like now I’m getting that back a little bit and there will be more than a few adaptations to come,” continued King. “I’m not as young as i used to be, obviously, but I feel like there are still a few movies left in these old fingers and I’m determined to get them out before I’m too old to see them on the big screen. There’s nothing like sitting in a darkened theatre watching your creations dance onscreen. That’s the dream of every novelist and I’ve been lucky enough to have that happen many, many times.”
The next movie adaptation for King will be ‘The Colorado Kid’, a novella that will be adapted into a television show called ‘Haven’. There are more than a dozen King films currently in production.
“I’m really one of the luckiest novelists in the world and I realize that. Sure, some of 
my movies have been stinkers but some of them have been classics and been better than I ever could have imagined. As a kid growing up in Maine that last thing I could have imagined was that so many of my stories would have ended up on the silver screen but here we are,” continued King. “I’m sure if Mark Twain had been alive in the film era he would have bettered me but I think there still would have been room for my work. I hope so anyway because it’s been a good life.”
King reportedly plans on continuing to publish all future adaptations in book form for the foreseeable future.
Samantha Dryden, Entertainment Correspondent
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