Duffer brothers and Amblin to adapt Stephen King’s Talisman for Netflix

Stranger Things creators the Duffer brothers, Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television and Paramount Television Studios are adapting Stephen King’s Talisman for Netflix.

The book, co-written with Peter Straub and first published in 2012, follows 12-year-old Jack, who spends his days alone … Read More

Trailer: Stephen King’s The Stand heads to STARZPLAY this January

STARZPLAY has acquired the rights to Stephen King’s The Stand for release in the UK this January.

The Stand is Stephen King’s apocalyptic vision of a world decimated by plague and embroiled in an elemental struggle between good and … Read More

Mr Harrigan’s Phone: Netflix and John Lee Hancock bring Stephen King story to screen

Netflix, Blumhouse and John Lee Hancock are teaming up to bring Stephen King’s new story, Mr Harrison’s Phone, to the screen.

The tale is just one of four novellas in If It Bleeds, the latest collection of stories from the … Read More

Amazon abandons The Dark Tower series

Amazon Studios has abandoned its plans to adapt The Dark Tower for the screen.

Stephen King’s book series of books, first published in 1982, are a sprawling fantasy epic, which follow Roland of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger. Roland is a … Read More

Netflix UK film review: In the Tall Grass

Vincenzo Natali’s adaptation of Stephen King and Joe Hill’s horror story starts out creepy but loses its way.Read More

First look: Netflix‘s In the Tall Grass to premiere this October

Netflix will be venturing In the Tall Grass this autumn, as the Stephen King and Joe Hill story makes it to the screen

Written and directed by Splice and Cube director Vincenzo Natali, the adaptation of the novella was snapped … Read More

VOD film review: The Dark Tower

This ambitious, commendably concise Stephen King adaptation fails to live up to its promise.Read More

Netflix UK film review: 1922

A first-rate scary story – claustrophobic, tense and creepy as all hell.Read More

Trailer: Netflix serves up more Stephen King horror with 1922

With the IT movie breaking box office records, Mike Flanagan about to premiere Gerald’s Game on Netflix and Stranger Things returning to our screens, it’s safe to say that Stephen King is having something a moment. Now, Netflix is delving … Read More

Netflix UK TV review: The Mist Season 1

Warning: This contains minor spoilers for The Mist Season 1 – and spoilers for Stephen King’s original novella and the 2007 film adaptation.

When news broke that the Weinstein Company was adapting Stephen King’s novella The Mist, many expressed the … Read More