Novelist has warm words for Stand By Me and The Shawshank Redemption,but says there are others where ‘I feel a cramped bit like, ‘yuck’’ Stephen King picks winner of Guardian short story contestStephen King has slammed the film adaptations of his stories Graveyard Shift and The Shining, or praised those of Cujo,Stand By Me and The Shawshank Redemption in a wide-ranging interview with Deadline.
The Q and A with the bestselling author, which was held “several” years ago but never published, and was released for the first time by the film site alongside the news that director and writer Josh Boone has scripted an adaptation of King’s recent novel Revival. Boone has also been working on King’s epic,post-apocalyptic novel The Stand, but has set aside that aside while he focuses on Revival.
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Source: theguardian.com