Has @Donald_Petersen seen THIS?
- Riding the Bullet
Mick Garris directs Jonathan Jackson, David Arquette, and Barbara Hershey in this adaptation of King’s first e-book. It’s about a hitchhiker who takes a strange ride on the way to visit his dying mother… and you’d be much better off reading the story than watching the movie.
- The Shining (1997)
Another one from Mick Garris, who is no Stanley Kubrick, starring Jake Weber, who is no Jack Nicholson. This six-hour TV remake was touted for being more faithful to King’s book; King, who famously disliked Kubrick’s version, wrote the teleplay this time around. But how do you compete with a pre-existing masterpiece? And why would you want to try?
