Slumerican502 said
@krunkazphuk 

@preachy-the-clown 

@old-mr-dangerous 

@patjoyce 

I’m curious if y’all(or anyone) has had the chance to read the two latest novels ‘Revival’ and ‘Mr Mercedes’. I finished the first in a couple days and am working on ‘Mr Mercedes’ now. Let me know what y’all thought.

No, sir. Im quite interested in Revival, though. Hopefully someday soon.

All this time and I’ve overlooked this thread. I can’t believe it.

I read Mr. Mercedes when it first came out. If you’re a general fan of SK, I would assume you’d be fine with this novel. It kind of has a Bag of Bones pace to it and is similar to The Colorado Kid in it being a mystery. It’s become a trilogy I believe with the second novel Finders Keepers, out in June.

I just finished Revival yesterday. It wasn’t too bad. The jacket says it’s the most horrifying ending King has ever written. Eh, I wouldn’t go that far. But it’s certainly a return to actual horror. The antagonist clown doesn’t turn into a giant spider randomly at the end. This is a book that I would like to see a faithful film adaptation for. It’s easy to follow as each chapter covers a year (chronological, but skipping 10 years at a time in places) of the main character. Sometimes I had to go back to remember his relatives names, but they were mostly unimportant to the main story. I guess I’d recommend it as a read and maybe give it a 7.3 on the Todash SK scale™

That goes for most film / TV adaptations as well. I haven’t seen every single one though. There’s maybe 10 I haven’t seen and most are TV segments (Tales from the Darkside, and X-Files, for instance.)

Sorry to troll this forum like this, but I’m a fanatic. Going back and reading all 10 pages of this forum now to see what everyone’s thinking.

Slumerican502 said
http://www.ew.com/article/2016…..cconaughey

 

So this is happening now. I was really apprehensive about elba at first. Not because dude is black but because I had no idea who he was and not who I imagined for the role(someone like Daniel Day Lewis or Josh Brolin).

I gotta say though, after watching him in Beasts of No Nation I am fucking sold on him. He has definitely got the quiet intensity that is required for the role.

There is gonna hafta be some changing around of the story of course because of the racial dynamic between Susanna Dean and Roland in the books but fuck it. I am just really fucking happy to finally see this shit come to fruition after years of chasing information on the net.

Love Mcconaughey but we will hafta see about it on this one…Again not close to who I imagined for The Man In Black.

 

Any thoughts?

I am simultaneously worried and extremely hype for this film. They just started filming like lat week. I am super curious as well if Sushanna and Roland will have revered racial dynamics, her as a Caucasian, or a new angle, or what.. gonna be interesting. 

Mad people are upset that Roland is played by a black dude, but I’m fine with it. I still want (and he wants it to) for Eddie Dean to be played by Aaron Paul from Breaking Bad. He is dying to play Eddie and said it would be the role of a lifetime. He would be a great pick. I used to envision a sort of Edward Norton dude but not quite. 

I liked Jamie Sheridan’s take on Flagg for The Stand tv movie. He was good.

Maybe the Detta Walker character will be changed into a man-hater who doesn’t see skin color, but hates all men equally. Could work.