On The Regulators page of his official website, King is quoted as saying, 'These books were an opportunity to test the idea of using characters as a repertory company. Often, characters from one story show up in another, or someone will casually mention a past event in Derry or Castle Rock, but the connection between Desperation & The Regulators is one wholly its own. King is certainly no stranger to referencing his own work. Desperation was published under his name, while the other, The Regulators, was published under his then-long-dormant pseudonym, Richard Bachman. I've certainly had conversations of my own in which I've asked, 'what's that one about again?' But even among Constant Readers, there seem to be oversights, and I have found that one of the most glaring-from both Hollywood & Constant Readers alike-is The Regulators. Yet the eternal question remains: Why do studios continue to ignore the dozens & dozens of King stories that haven't ever been adapted?įor many Stephen King fans, it's not uncommon to come across titles you may be unfamiliar with. Give me a Stephen King movie every year for the rest of my life, and I'll die a happy man. The movie-going public (or whatever you want to call it now) will never see the end of Stephen King adaptations. New adaptations of Firestarter, 'Salem's Lot, and Christine are all in various stages of production, not to mention Edgar Wright's The Running Man and the Stephen Spielberg produced, The Talisman, for Netflix. Now, forty-five years later, it's clear that Hollywood has no plans to abandon America's boogeyman anytime soon. In 1976, Brian De Palma introduced Hollywood to Stephen King with his excellent adaptation of King's first published novel, Carrie. Since 1974, King has published sixty-three novels (including this year's Later and Billy Summers), five non-fiction books, and eleven collections containing novellas & short stories numbering into the hundreds.

It's in no way false, but it fails to convey the enormity of the truth. Saying Stephen King has written a lot of stories is kind of like saying the Pacific Ocean is big.

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