# What Stephen King story should Stephen Spielberg direct?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stephen-king-story-should-stephen-spielberg-direct/798225>\
**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:** 5\
**Page:** 2

<div class="post-metadata">

**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, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stephen-king-story-should-stephen-spielberg-direct/798225/21 "2017-10-08T13:20:13Z")

</div>

> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#):
>
> Why do you hate Drew Barrymore?

I think she’s a little too old now to play a cute moppet.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stephen-king-story-should-stephen-spielberg-direct/798225/22 "2017-10-08T18:35:30Z")

</div>

> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#):
>
> **The Long Walk** , almost certainly.

I opened the thread to say this.

That aside, I think a **Running Man** remake by Spielberg could be great if it hewed a little closer to the original story than the Schwarzenegger movie did. I like the Arnold movie, but I’d want something different in a remake, most notably having the hunt play out in the world at large. The theme is perhaps even more relevant today in our reality-TV-obsessed society than it was back then. Might have to change the ending a bit from the novel, but I’d be okay with that.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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 8, 2017, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stephen-king-story-should-stephen-spielberg-direct/798225/23 "2017-10-08T18:57:33Z")

</div>

I think **It** is the King story most suited to Spielberg, other than the novella **The Body**.

For works not yet filmed (or not given a quality big-budget film), **The Long Walk** would be good in Spielberg’s hands, but I think **Rage** could be a great movie, as long as you get rid of a lot of the second-rate psychoanalyzing.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stephen-king-story-should-stephen-spielberg-direct/798225/24 "2017-10-10T14:40:47Z")

</div>

> [@buddha\_david](#):
>
> Steven Spielberg does own the film rights for **The Talisman,** but hasn’t done crap with them in 30 years. :mad:

I wish he’d get on with it - it’s actually my favorite SK book.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stephen-king-story-should-stephen-spielberg-direct/798225/25 "2017-10-10T16:06:01Z")

</div>

[The Mangler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mangler).

It should evolve slowly and draw us in, in the most creepy non-over-the-top way possible, until the final reel.

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stephen-king-story-should-stephen-spielberg-direct/798225.md?page=1)