With more than 200 published short stories and 65 novels and anthologies in his bibliography, Stephen King is one of the world’s most prolific authors. He writer Maine is also the one with the most film and television adaptations, and the count continues to increase year after year.
Mike Flanagan He is one of the directors who have managed to fulfill his dream of directing an adaptation of Stephen King. Well, in fact, it’s been two years and he’s already preparing the third film based on a King of Terror book.
In addition, the director of Gerald’s Game and Doctor Sleep is preparing Stephen King on Screena documentary about the writer that reviews the many adaptations of his work on the big and small screen.
Gamesradar has shared a short clip from the Stephen King documentary where Mike Flanagan talks about the author’s virtue in creating female characters. You can see the clip on the Gamesradar page itself.
One of the most ambitious Stephen King documentaries
Flanagan also highlights the role played by the writer’s wife, Tabitha Kingin the way Stephen King conceives his female heroines.
“If you listen to him talk about Tabitha, you realize that she took Carrie’s manuscript out of the trash can when he threw it there in utter desperation; you imagine her being the first set of eyes to read one of his stories and make the first comments. critics… it’s very easy to see where she gets a lot of that strength and mettle that her heroines have.”
One of the upcoming adaptations of Stephen King’s novels is about to land in movie theaters, with very high expectations. We are referring, of course, to The Boogeyman, based on the story El coco, contained in the book compilation The threshold of the night.
Stephen King has been, is, and will continue to be, one of the benchmarks for horror and suspense in American literature, and his stories continue to feed the audiovisual world, as Mike Flanagan’s documentary will demonstrate.