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Stephen Kingcast

Episode 176-Stephen King Movie News and Tommyknockers Re-Release

Stephen Kingcast

Constant Reader

Books, Arts:books, Arts, Tv & Film

4.7680 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2018

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

Hey guys! This past weekend, news hit that a big-budget adaptation of The Tommyknockers directed by The Conjuring and Insidious director James Wan was being shopped around.  So I decided to share my thoughts on this, along with my thoughts on some news regarding The Stand adaptation.  But because The Tommyknockers is such a maligned and unloved novel, I thought it was important for people to be able to see it in a different light, so I've re-released my review of the book, which isn't without it's flaws, but is jam-packed with wonderful ideas, imagery and chills that make me excited for whatever James Wan (I trust that guy!) has up his sleeve.

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0:00.0

Hello everyone, welcome to the Stephen Kingcast, One Man's Musings on the Works of Stephen King.

0:06.8

Each week I'll review one entry in the bibliography of Stephen King and the chronological order of publication.

0:12.1

And what I am doing this week, I'm not, this is not technically a new episode.

0:17.3

It is an old episode with a new intro.

0:20.2

I'm attaching a new intro on this. So,

0:22.9

the reason that I'm doing this is because over the weekend, or at the tail end of last week,

0:29.4

news broke that the Tommy Knockers, one of Stephen King's most divisive novels, very notorious novel, but very divisive,

0:41.1

was being set to be made into a feature-length film. And guys, I'm sorry for the noise in the

0:46.7

background. I don't know if the microphone is picking this up or not, but one of my furry co-hosts

0:51.0

is just nesting. She's settling in for the night. She's grooming herself. She's been

0:58.4

ignored all day long. Now I'm with her. So she's happy. But when she gets happy, she tends to get

1:06.7

very, very breathy and snorty. Oh, and she's getting closer. She wants to say hi.

1:12.2

So I do apologize for that.

1:13.7

That's not going to be heard

1:14.7

throughout the entirety of this episode,

1:16.5

but there she goes.

1:18.5

But she might be making some noise

1:21.8

in the background of this episode.

1:23.9

My other pug is passed out

1:25.2

on the other side of the couch.

1:27.2

Okay, so the Tommy Knockers,

1:29.1

which was adapted in the 90s for an ABC TV miniseries, is coming to the big screen. So I just wanted,

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