Stand by Me does a pretty good job. And The Dead Zone isn’t far off.
Cujo is pretty straight, too, although it leaves out an awful lot.
Stand by Me does a pretty good job. And The Dead Zone isn’t far off.
Cujo is pretty straight, too, although it leaves out an awful lot.
Also Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile.
Because it happens inside the mind of the dog!
So much is packed into every Steven King book that it’s awfully hard to do a faithful adaptation!!
The Night Flier was pretty accurate IIRC but that’s also because it’s literally a short story turned into a full length movie meaning they actually had to add new stuff to it for length reasons.
Of course fellow short story Trucks became Maximum Overdrive which again had very little to do with Trucks besides the “Trucks become possessed and lay siege to a truck stop” basic premise (which was further deviated as in Trucks literally only trucks came alive while in MO literally EVERYTHING electric came alive to kill people) Then Trucks became itself a TV movie that was somewhat more accurate to the original story, except of course the DVD version of said movie decided to add a bunch of MO style “Electronics kill random people” that literally had nothing to do with the main plot because they could show gore in the DVD version.
“It” was pretty close, as far as movies can or should be - the first movie adaptation, haven’t seen the recent one - with the understandable exclusion of the scene that I actually don’t even want to mention, but if you’ve read the book, you’ll know which one I mean.
Most of them aren’t necessarily “close”, but you could easily recognise that the book and the film are the same, even if the names were all changed. No adaptation is ever going to be exact, and it’s usually a sign of either a bad movie or a bad book if they are.
The musical has twenty songs with no melody and no hook.
Are you suggesting they didn’t really try? Or just didn’t succeed? 