# What Stephen King story should Stephen Spielberg direct? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 7, 2017, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stephen-king-story-should-stephen-spielberg-direct/798225 "2017-10-07T16:52:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2017, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stephen-king-story-should-stephen-spielberg-direct/798225/1 "2017-10-07T16:52:38Z")
My wife asked this, and it seemed such an obvious SDMB question that, well, here I am. What SK story (novel, short story, etc) would you think is best suited for Spielberg? Spielberg had never directed a King story, so we need to make sure we can offer him proper guidance when he logs in here and asks us. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2017, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stephen-king-story-should-stephen-spielberg-direct/798225/2 "2017-10-07T16:56:05Z")
“On Writing” 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2017, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stephen-king-story-should-stephen-spielberg-direct/798225/3 "2017-10-07T17:00:24Z")
Something that would be a real challenge to make a two-hour film out of. Hmmm. “Survivor Type” - Blokes eats himself on a desert island or “The Jaunt” - an uncountable number of years pass, but essentially nothing happens ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2017, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stephen-king-story-should-stephen-spielberg-direct/798225/4 "2017-10-07T17:04:41Z")
Book: The unedited Stand. With Whoopi as Mother Abigail Short story: Quitters, Inc. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2017, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stephen-king-story-should-stephen-spielberg-direct/798225/5 "2017-10-07T17:16:26Z")
His short story [**Jerusalem’s Lot**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem%27s_Lot). Scared the willies out of me, as badly as some scenes from **Pet Sematary** did. Note that this is **not** the more famous novel, **'Salem’s Lot** , an interesting book in its own right. But it was not as good as the quite different short story was. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2017, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stephen-king-story-should-stephen-spielberg-direct/798225/6 "2017-10-07T17:32:54Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Book: The unedited Stand. With Whoopi as Mother Abigail …with Gary Sinise reprising his role. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2017, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stephen-king-story-should-stephen-spielberg-direct/798225/7 "2017-10-07T18:10:23Z")
Done on Hulu already but 11/22/63 would be a good Spielberg project. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2017, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stephen-king-story-should-stephen-spielberg-direct/798225/8 "2017-10-07T18:13:58Z")
**The Long Walk** , almost certainly. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2017, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stephen-king-story-should-stephen-spielberg-direct/798225/9 "2017-10-07T18:40:05Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > **The Long Walk** , almost certainly. Ooh! Great idea! ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2017, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stephen-king-story-should-stephen-spielberg-direct/798225/10 "2017-10-07T21:12:45Z")
The Long Walk or The Talisman ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2017, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stephen-king-story-should-stephen-spielberg-direct/798225/11 "2017-10-07T21:44:58Z")
Steven Spielberg does own the film rights for **The Talisman,** but hasn’t done crap with them in 30 years. :mad: ---
**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:** [October 7, 2017, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stephen-king-story-should-stephen-spielberg-direct/798225/12 "2017-10-07T21:57:29Z")
The Stand but only in the Band of Brothers miniseries format. ---
**Author:** ![Number](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/number/32/242_2.png) [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stephen-king-story-should-stephen-spielberg-direct/798225/13 "2017-10-08T00:28:36Z")
If anyone’s going to make _The Eyes of the Dragon,_ he’s probably the best choice. ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stephen-king-story-should-stephen-spielberg-direct/798225/14 "2017-10-08T01:19:34Z")
Ugh you a-holes already picked the good ones. So among what’s left and hasn’t already been made into something… I’ll go with the latest, Sleeping Beauties. With the right director and/or adapted screenplay it could be quite lovely. If it’s with the wrong ones, it’ll go in the King-movie clunker drawer. Or maybe a series of stories within one larger movie from the story-telling club. “It is the tale not he who tells it.” Breathing Method, Man Who Won’t (wouldn’t?) Shake Hands. Stephen the creepy manservant, etc. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stephen-king-story-should-stephen-spielberg-direct/798225/15 "2017-10-08T01:51:24Z")
[The Raft](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raft_(short_story)) ---
**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:** [October 8, 2017, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stephen-king-story-should-stephen-spielberg-direct/798225/16 "2017-10-08T02:54:12Z")
> [@Poysyn](#): > > The Long Walk or The Talisman Correct. > [@Number](#): > > If anyone’s going to make _The Eyes of the Dragon,_ he’s probably the best choice. Nah, that’s more like a Guillermo del Toro film. ---
**Author:** ![Badger96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@Badger96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badger96)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stephen-king-story-should-stephen-spielberg-direct/798225/17 "2017-10-08T07:41:54Z")
Throwing my bid in for The Long Walk as well. I just really want this filmed. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stephen-king-story-should-stephen-spielberg-direct/798225/18 "2017-10-08T12:54:52Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > **The Long Walk** , almost certainly. Oh yes. Good choice. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stephen-king-story-should-stephen-spielberg-direct/798225/19 "2017-10-08T13:10:51Z")
I want to see Spielberg remake _Firestarter_, with whoever the cute moppet of the day will be. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stephen-king-story-should-stephen-spielberg-direct/798225/20 "2017-10-08T13:16:01Z")
> [@Terminus\_Est](#): > > I want to see Spielberg remake _Firestarter_, with whoever the cute moppet of the day will be. Why do you hate Drew Barrymore? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stephen-king-story-should-stephen-spielberg-direct/798225.md?page=2)