I meant that the King adaptations themselves are fairly obscure. Probably the best known from the last 15 years is ‘The Mist’ and that didn’t exactly set the box office on fire. Jane Austen was making gentle fun of those types of women and the culture that shaped their expectations.
1408, the King movie before The Mist, pulled in $130 million. Riding the Bullet, the movie before 1408, $134 million. The Green Mile was 10 years ago and pulled $280 million. Yeah he’s got a lot of movies that pulled in $30 million-ish, but he’s got a few major successes also. As for Austen, again, if you say so. I suffered through 100 pages of P&P and wanted to gouge my eyes out, it was nattering hens blathering inanely, I will never touch another Austen book again, much less actually read one. Maybe she was making fun of them, I don’t know, I don’t care, it was the worst book experience of my life.