Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Stephen King Update

Stephen King chills tube again - Entertainment News, TV News, Media - Variety: "Stephen King is taking another stab at the smallscreen, signing on to turn his novella 'The Colorado Kid' into an hourlong series for indie studio E1 Entertainment ('Hung').

Titled 'Haven,' the project centers on a spooky town in Maine where cursed folk live normal lives in exile. When those curses start returning, FBI agent Audrey Parker is brought in to keep those supernatural forces at bay -- while trying to unravel the mysteries of Haven."

8 comments:

Evan Lewis said...

Not promising. If there's a worse King book than "The Colorado Kid," I'd hate to see it.

Anonymous said...

Is there going to be an end this time?

Jeff

Todd Mason said...

I've never read professionally published fiction worse than the early "Gunslinger" stories (unless it was "The Cat from Hell")...if THE COLORADO KID was worse than those, that does sound impressive.

Randy Johnson said...

Todd, I quite agree with Evan. The Colorado Kid is a novel without an ending. As Jeff points out.
It reads like he got tired of writing and came up with some BS wrap-up to get him out of it.

Toby O'B said...

It sounds like a project that might have a better chance if King doesn't get directly involved in it.

Actually, if it was given a lighter tone that what I'm expecting, it sounds like the kind of show that might have made a nice companion piece to 'Eureka' and 'Warehouse 13' on Syfy.

Stephen B. said...

Agreed! I have to say that I waited months for this "Crime" book to be published, but it was all bluster and the rain never came...


Perhaps the TV series, as stated, will finally expand the ID!

A friend an I wrote a draft and outline and suddenly realized the suspense part of it could lend to one character in a series of stories (after he solves his own state of coma and attempt on his life)...

S

Gary Dobbs/Jack Martin said...

I'm must be the only one who quite liked Colorado Kid -

Dwight Brown said...

Actually, Archavist, you're not.

Well, okay, I only sort of liked it.

I agree with the frustration with a lack of an ending, but I think I understand what King was trying to do with that. If you approach it with the idea that he wasn't writing a mystery, but a meditation on the nature of mystery, and if you're in the mood for that sort of thing, it works. I don't blame the people it doesn't work for, though.

What I really like about it are the characters. I'd love to see King put those two old men and the young woman into another book. It wouldn't even need to have a mystery or horror plot to hold me; possibly a mainstream fiction novel about that island and how it changed from the time the two men were young up to the present of *Colorado Kid*. Maybe a series of vignettes...