Stephen King & James Wan Team Up for SALEM’S LOT Remake

Dread Central ^ | 04-24-2019 | Josh Millican

[Drew68]

Oh wow awesome!!! Thanks! Wow, that really holds up to this day, if they are making a remake I doubt they can do it any better than that.

Tobe Hooper was a master horror filmmaker.

[mewzilla]

The 1963 version of The Haunting is the scariest movie I have ever seen. I can only watch it once every few years. It scares the living heck outta me.

[Magnatron]

If they actually follow the book it will be an incredible show, IMO.

King usually insists on it if he’s directly involved. He actually HATED Kubrick’s The Shining as he felt if departed too much from his source material.

It’s hard to hate that movie, too.

[ozaukeemom]

They cannot remake The Stand. It is about good and evil and God and self-sacrifice. Not PC at all. They would have to change so much to make it acceptable. Love the book and enjoyed the mini-series. Won’t watch a new butchered version. Not to mention, I won’t put a nickel in King’s pocket.

[SamAdams76]

I'll never forget when I first showed "JAWS" to my kids. I thought for sure it would scare the heck out of them like it did to me back in 1975. But they were laughing throughout.

To them, all the special effects that made the shark look so real back then looked cheesy and amateur to their eyes. Also, the characters in the movie seemed stupid to them. Except Quint. Even 40 years later, Quint seems to have maintained his coolness factor.

[upchuck]

I am probably the last American whose entire life does not revolve around politics. Sigh...

Prolly the other way around. IMHO, not nearly enough Americans pay attention to politics. We've grown too comfortable having all the comforts of life. This is not a good thing. God, family, country.

[upchuck]

I missed the 1979 TV version. But I just added it to my Netflix queue. Looking forward to the new version.

[mass55th]

"Do you think they’ll follow the book like the miniseries did so long ago?"

Hard to tell with the way things are today. I remember that after the first miniseries, I re-read Salem's Lot. I read it when it was first published in 1975, and wanted to refresh myself, and to compare it to the series. I stopped reading King's books a long time ago. I think the last two novels of his I read were The Tommyknockers, and Delores Claiborne. There were several in-between those that I didn't bother with.

[mass55th]

"Guess they feel they need three versions now, like Carrie got"

Hollywood has no original ideas anymore, so they have to recycle old ones.

[mass55th]

You may be right about the new version. It will be on CBS All Access, so more than likely, I won’t even watch it. I’m not paying extra to access it.

[ozaukeemom]

I wouldn’t either! I still read the book on my tablet every so often. I may not like King but some of his books are excellent. The Stand was one that, while a horror story, was not too far-fetched. Plus, it is nice when good and God are recognized and revered.

[Perhaps Today]

Personally, I have always considered the Stanley Kubrick version of The Shining to be one of the two greatest horror films of all time. The other being the first Nightmare On Elm Street. Carrie was watchable but nothing special.

[trebb]

Wonder if he’s on or off the sauce these days - one of his books had a foreword where he bragged about being clean and sober...then he started acting and talking like that couldn’t still be true...

[Jimmy Valentine]

I always liked “Christine”

[Hootowl]

I thought both made for TV productions missed the mark. Glad they’re going to try again. Maybe they’ll get it right this time.

[Hootowl]

King’s vampire in ‘Salem’s Lot was urbane and handsome, closer to Bela Lugosi than the TV version hideous monster.

[Hootowl]

True that.

[RedMonqey]

King’s vampire in ‘Salem’s Lot was urbane and handsome, closer to Bela Lugosi than the TV version hideous monster.

It's been a while but I thought Barlow was a corpse like fiend while Straker was the debonaire front man(Played by James Mason in the TV version) I read the book but it's been years ago and my memory is getting hazy on some subjects. Probably getting the TV version and the book mixed up.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

I just rented it from Amazon and my bro is over and we are going to watch it tonight! AWESOME! Talk about a time warp!