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post #1 of 17
10/11/07 at 11:45am
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post #2 of 17
10/11/07 at 11:54am
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George Romero was planning to work on it 2 years ago, but that fell through.
A time-honored King adaptation tradition.

So, straight to DVD for this one, then?
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post #3 of 17
10/11/07 at 12:02pm
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Well, Toolbox Murders got a couple of theaters, right? Probably the same for this. Unless they really push the Stephen King adaptation angle...
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post #4 of 17
10/11/07 at 12:09pm
I thought Toolbox only played fests, but I wasn't paying a lot of attention. Mick Garris and Tobe spells home video to me...
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post #5 of 17
10/11/07 at 12:12pm
Whatever about Hooper, the involvement of Mick Garris almost guarantees the result will be a shit sandwich.
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post #6 of 17
10/11/07 at 4:46pm
Indeed. His last theatrical output was Hocus Pocus.
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post #7 of 17
10/11/07 at 5:06pm
Hooper doing another full length flick has me interested, as I liked The Toolbox Murders, and his last, and only other King adaptation was the excellent Salem's Lot, so I'll check this flick out.
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post #8 of 17
10/11/07 at 5:41pm
I kinda dug "Funhouse". And let's not forget, he DID do TCM. I really liked this book, and this could be a really creepy, and perhaps touching, movie iof done right. If only Darabont could have done this one, too. . . Anyway, whatever format it ends up on, I'll give it a look-see. I just hope whatever they do, even if it isn't GREAT, they don't fuck it up TOO badly.
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post #9 of 17
10/11/07 at 8:44pm
TCM was a fluke. And Funhouse has its moments, but opens with the creepiest goddamn shower scene ever. That girl looks like she's 12.
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post #10 of 17
10/17/07 at 5:29am
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Originally Posted by Mr.Eko
Hooper doing another full length flick has me interested, as I liked The Toolbox Murders, and his last, and only other King adaptation was the excellent Salem's Lot, so I'll check this flick out.
You're forgetting that Hooper directed The Mangler, which is based on a King tale.

Anyway, Hooper's career is extremely spotty. On one hand you have films like Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Texas Chainsaw Massacre II, Poltergeist, Salem's Lot, The Funhouse, Lifeforce, Toolbox Murders, and Invaders from Mars. Not all are classics, but the ones that aren't certainly are at least fun. His Body Bags segment and his offerings for Masters of Horror are decent as well, though far from the best.

That said, you've also got Crocodile, Mortuary, The Apartment Complex, I'm Dangerous Tonight, and Night Terrors. Talk about awful. I haven't seen Eaten Alive, Eggshells, Spontaneous Combustion, or The Mangler, so I can't comment on them.

My point is, while I look forward to the project, I'm not getting my hopes up. Going off of what I have seen and not counting 2004's Toolbox Murders, Tobe hasn't really directed a decent piece of feature-length cinema since 1986. That's over 20 years and certainly not very promising at all when you think about it. One good film in two decades is actually extremely embarrassing, considering the run he had in the 1970s/early 1980s.
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post #11 of 17
10/17/07 at 10:04am
Why this bizarre little book is getting turned into a movie before The Talisman, or Bag of Bones, or Cell, I can't figure out. I'm a huge King apologist, but even I finished this book with a weird look on my face. The Sci-fi/horror elements in the book are very odd, and the bulk of the content of the book is extensive character work, which is what I think of when I think of Stephen King, but not what I think of when I think of Tobe Hooper.
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post #12 of 17
10/17/07 at 11:55am
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Why this bizarre little book is getting turned into a movie before The Talisman, or Bag of Bones, or Cell, I can't figure out. I'm a huge King apologist, but even I finished this book with a weird look on my face. The Sci-fi/horror elements in the book are very odd, and the bulk of the content of the book is extensive character work, which is what I think of when I think of Stephen King, but not what I think of when I think of Tobe Hooper.
Yeah, this is my least favorite of his 00's work. It's kind of a pale offshoot of Tommyknockers meets Dolores Claibourne. I can't imagine an exciting movie being made out of it.
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post #13 of 17
10/17/07 at 12:32pm
While I agree Bag of Bones would be easier to make (pretty standard ghostly haunting fare), and The Talisman being a superior book should, in theory, make a superior movie, I kinda LIKED From a Buick 8. Its oddness is what attracted me to it. It was one of his more innovative books, that's for sure. Am I alone in my love for FAB8?
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post #14 of 17
10/17/07 at 12:39pm
I wouldn't say I loved it. I liked it, but like I said above, it just doesn't seem appropriate to remove from the page.
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post #15 of 17
10/17/07 at 10:01pm
I might've said the same thing about Shawshank. Look how that turned out. Ditto the Mist (I hope). You never know. . . .

Also, now that I think about it, parts of The Talisman might be very hard to translate to celluloid, too.
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post #16 of 17
10/18/07 at 7:52pm
While I have faith in Tobe Hooper with a King adaptation (I mean, Salem's Lot was fantastic, and that's my favorite King book), I do have to agree that I don't know why he's picking this book first. I'd much rather see Bag of Bones, and I've been waiting for an adaptation of Rose Madder for years.
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post #17 of 17
10/18/07 at 9:24pm
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I've been waiting for an adaptation of Rose Madder for years.
Yeah, not me. I would basically be Sleeping With The Enemy with minotaurs.
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