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Josh Boone? This is an unexpected choice, but The Wrap are reporting that the little known Fault in Our Stars director is in early talks with Warner Bros about taking over helming duties on their long-gestating adaptation of Stephen King's The Stand after Cooper dropped out late last year. The answer about the film's rating and[...]

Actors previously linked to the role include Russell Crowe, Viggo Mortensen and Javier Bardem.

Aaron Paul is at Sundance right now promoting his new film Hellion, and got pretty talkative during an interview wherein Ain't It Cool News raised a hypothetical. Has Paul ever read Stephen King's Dark Tower series and wouldn't he be great for the role of Eddie Dean, the fanboy site ponders out loud to the actor[...]

With CBS' Under the Dome and Syfy's Haven (based on The Colorado Kid) both doing solid ratings, TV execs are mining Stephen King's vast repertoire for more material to adapt in serialized format. The newest is a potential straight-to-series show for ABC from Haven creators Sam Ernst and Jim Dunn, reports THR The show will[...]

They may have lost another director in Scott Cooper, but Warner Bros is charging full speed ahead on their adaptation of Stephen King's The Stand At the top of their wishlist to fill the vacant director's chair, according to Badass Digest: Paul Greengrass He's having a bit of a moment with Captain Phillips and[...]

Following in the footsteps of Ben Affleck and David Yates, now Scott Cooper has fallen out of directing WB's massively ambitious adaptation of Stephen King's The Stand too, according to The Wrap. Cooper first came on board after Affleck became Batman and thus too busy for the massive undertaking, but now Cooper is leaving for "creative[...]

Advertising by day, comic books by night. Sure, we could try to connect these worlds by saying "it's all about storytelling." A 30-second spot with a cute teddy bear falling into a warm, inviting, fluffy towel is just as much a story as Stephen King's The Stand, right? But, that'd be stretching it The day job, the[...]

Lovecraft, mix in a scoop of Stephen King, add a dollop of Walking Dead and pour this horrifying mixture over idyllic Riverdale We've never seen Archie and the gang have to deal with anything close to this level of BAD We'll see who steps up and who shuts down, who leads and who falls We'll[...]

Was it yesterday? or the day before? that we mentioned that Steve Ellis would be drawing the Breaking Bad webcomic? Seems like he's the go-to guy. He's

Perhaps it's because of this success that producer Jason Blum has already decided to bring Derrickson back to direct his next film, an adaptation of one of Stephen King's novellas. The Breathing Method will be the final story in Stephen King's four-part anthology Different Seasons to see a large screen adaptation The three other 'seasons' in the[...]

Interesting: While Stephen King will soon release Dr Sleep, his sequel to The Shining, Warner Bros have started, very quietly, on early work that could lead to a prequel for their film version The project has a long way to go to the screen, but Warner Bros have called in Laeta Kalogridis, Bradley Fischer and[...]

Novels and stories by Stephen King seem to have some kind of magic quality to them that makes them irresistible to movie and TV producers looking for something to adapt Leaving out the sequels (mainly because I really don't need to be reminded of Carrie 2 any time in the next few decades), there are[...]

Horror fans by the world around obviously know the works of Stephen King, but Hill doesn't stand in his father's shadow Just ask the tremendously long line of people waiting to pile inside the room to hear him discuss their favorite comics Locke and Key and The Cape Not to mention the newest announcement made[...]

The Wind Through The Keyhole is an upcoming Dark Tower novel from Stephen King, out now in a limited illustrated version before its mass market version in April. And he has recruited the artist of the Dark Tower comic books, Jae Lee, to provide illustrations Probably what Lee was doing before Before Watchmen. Here are a few… [...]

And as always odds are pretty good that it will have been underordered and Image are already prepping a press release that it's been sold out and a second print is on the way. Road Rage #1 from IDW is the first comics collaboration of father and son team Stephen King and Joe Hill, adapting their[...]

At New York Comic Con, Marvel said that they didn't have any future Stephen King comics planned. But IDW, it seems, did. In February they'll be pubisihing Road Rage, adapting father and son team Stephen King and Joe Hill's story, Throttle, into two parts from editor-in-chief Chris Ryall and Nelson Daniel (The Cape) Joe Hill is also[...]

Deadline lets us know that Mark Verheiden, producer and writer of, well, pretty much everything including Aliens and Predator comics, Smallville, Timecop, Battlestar Galactica, Heroes and plenty more is teaming up with Akiva Goldsman, writer of the films A Beautiful Mind, The Da Vinci Code, I Am Legend and more, to write the Dark Tower[...]

Stephen King has confirmed for Entertainment Weekly that he is in talks to co-write an episode of Walking Dead with his son Joe Hill (writer of IDW's Locke and Key) King plus Hill plus Kirkman equals something very, very scary I'd imagine Sounds like they're hoping for an ep in season 2 or[...]

Stephen King's much-loved and well-read tale of a Gunslinger's quest has filled seven novels There will be others It is now to form the basis of alternating films and TV series with Ron Howard at the helm of the trilogy of movies. Combining genres of western, fantasy, scifi and horror, The Dark Tower is widely anticipated[...]

On the left, the original cover for American Vampire #8. With an untrustworthy fellow, deep forehead, scars on his face, protruding teeth, combover

On the left, the cover of American Vampire #7 as solicited in Diamond Previews. And on the right, the cover as published. It's always fun to see