Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of The Shining, which King has long been critical of, also came in for a drubbing in the Deadline interview. I thought they did a pretty good job on that.” I actually like the original pretty well. “I could do without all of the Children of the Corn sequels.
His least favourites, he admitted, included Graveyard Shift, which was made in 1990, and which he called “just kind of a quick exploitation picture… I guess there are a number of pictures that I feel like, a little bit like, ‘yuck’,” said King. The adaption of his tale of a rabid dog, Cujo, is the best “of the smaller pictures”. Revealing that he would “love to work” with Lars Von Trier one day on one of his books, King said his favourite adaptations of his work were The Shawshank Redemption, the story of the wrongfully imprisoned Andy Dufresne, and Stand By Me, about four boys who set out to find a body. Because if they want to make changes, if they want to be a little bit out on the edge, I’m all for it. The novelist has long offered film students the opportunity to try their hands at adapting those of his stories that are not under contract for a single US dollar, and has never, he told Deadline, “put up a red light to anybody about anything that they wanted to do. Speaking to Deadline about what Hollywood owes to authors when adapting their novels, King said that all he asks when signing over a work is a dollar, and “approvals over the screenwriter, the director and the principal cast”. Jack Nicholson in The Shining is as crazy as a shithouse rat.
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