# Is Stephen King Dying? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 15, 2018, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-stephen-king-dying/816148 "2018-06-15T14:36:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2018, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-stephen-king-dying/816148/1 "2018-06-15T14:36:58Z")
Maybe it’s just the worrier in me, but there seems to be a sudden flurry of film and TV adaptations and reboots of his work. He also seems to be slowing down a bit in his book publications…there were times he’d crank out two or three a year. I’m wondering if maybe he got some bad medical news and is trying to shore up final funds for his wife and children? I hope I’m way off base. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2018, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-stephen-king-dying/816148/2 "2018-06-15T14:47:02Z")
He keeps seeing this clown… ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2018, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-stephen-king-dying/816148/3 "2018-06-15T14:49:30Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > Maybe it’s just the worrier in me, but there seems to be a sudden flurry of film and TV adaptations and reboots of his work. He also seems to be slowing down a bit in his book publications…there were times he’d crank out two or three a year. > > I’m wondering if maybe he got some bad medical news and is trying to shore up final funds for his wife and children? > > I hope I’m way off base. I’m gonna go out on a limb and conclude that his wife and kids are fine for funds! ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2018, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-stephen-king-dying/816148/4 "2018-06-15T14:50:27Z")
Slowing down at age 70? Is that all that surprising? ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2018, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-stephen-king-dying/816148/5 "2018-06-15T14:55:47Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > I’m gonna go out on a limb and conclude that his wife and kids are fine for funds! Especially since his wife, Tabitha, and two of his sons are also writers. Richard Bachman, though, is well and truly deceased. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2018, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-stephen-king-dying/816148/6 "2018-06-15T14:58:15Z")
^ Or is he? ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2018, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-stephen-king-dying/816148/7 "2018-06-15T15:15:19Z")
He’s got another book coming out in October: [Elevation](https://www.amazon.com/Elevation-Stephen-King/dp/1982102314/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1529075622&sr=8-2&keywords=stephen+king+books) That’ll be two this year. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2018, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-stephen-king-dying/816148/8 "2018-06-15T15:19:56Z")
Plus this in September: [Flight or Fright](https://www.amazon.com/Flight-Fright-Stephen-King/dp/1587676796/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1529075860&sr=8-1&keywords=flight+or+fright+stephen+king) Steve is FINE. _jams fingers in ears_ I said he’s FINE! ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2018, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-stephen-king-dying/816148/9 "2018-06-15T15:21:03Z")
Okay, he’s fine. And one can never be too rich, so keep those adaptations coming! (Doctor Sleep is coming to TV!) ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2018, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-stephen-king-dying/816148/10 "2018-06-15T16:05:47Z")
Trump seems to have lit a fire under him. King won’t die till Trump has been destroyed. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2018, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-stephen-king-dying/816148/11 "2018-06-15T16:28:05Z")
Of course he’s dying. And he has been for the past 70 years. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2018, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-stephen-king-dying/816148/12 "2018-06-15T16:49:24Z")
“He who is not busy being born is busy dying” Bobby D ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2018, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-stephen-king-dying/816148/13 "2018-06-15T18:12:33Z")
Get busy living, or get busy dying. Red, Shawshank Redemption ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2018, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-stephen-king-dying/816148/14 "2018-06-15T18:18:24Z")
Life is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans. J.Lennon ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2018, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-stephen-king-dying/816148/15 "2018-06-15T18:44:47Z")
When life gives you lemons, the lemons are from a demonic realm possessed by the souls of the damned S. King probably ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2018, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-stephen-king-dying/816148/16 "2018-06-15T18:58:06Z")
Years I have been alive in which no new film or TV series based on a Stephen King story was released: 1975 1977 1978 1981 1988 2000 2008 2012 2015 King’s output in film and TV’s been pretty consistent through his whole career, with a peak in the '90s and a slight slow down around the turn of the century. However, the vast majority of these adaptations have been awful, z-grade crap, often based off of some obscure short story he wrote decades earlier. What’s changed is that more and more of King’s works are being adapted as major, big-budget, prestige movies. I think that’s mostly due to the market for fantasy films and TV exploding, CGI allowing a greater range of stories to be shown on screen without compromising the original material, and a greater proportion of the people deciding what movies get greenlit are from the generation of kids who grew up reading King’s books. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2018, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-stephen-king-dying/816148/17 "2018-06-15T22:47:56Z")
I’ve noticed Fred Armisen in a lot of TV shows recently. Conclusion: Fred Armisen has ebola. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2018, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-stephen-king-dying/816148/18 "2018-06-16T04:30:02Z")
Years I have been alive in which no new film or TV series even thought about Fred Armisen: 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2018, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-stephen-king-dying/816148/19 "2018-06-16T04:54:55Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > Maybe it’s just the worrier in me, but there seems to be a sudden flurry of film and TV adaptations and reboots of his work. The success of the It re-make is causing a scramble for King properties. Hollywood has always been imitative, and now there’s the thing with universes and franchises