You are now listening to Pokedmortem with Mick Garris, where the most influential voices in horror cinema will spill their guts, literally, to the renowned horror director, writer and producer.

Now, here's your host, Mick Garris.

I'm Mick Garris, and this is Pokedmortem.

Shall we talk about Stephen King again? There's no one like him. He's the biggest industry in the state of Maine, and his influence in the worlds of horror is vast and indisputable.

Since the 1970s, his books and the films and television based on them have rained supreme, and if anything, they are more popular than ever.

From Carrie, to The Shining, to The Shawshank Redemption, to The Dead Zone, to The Green Mile, to Pets Cemetery, to It, and Well Beyond, on Theatre Screens, and such television series as The Outsider, Under The Zone, Mr. Mercedes, Castle Rock, King's work is ubiquitous.

It's hard to imagine that anyone else has had more of their work brought to the screen than the King himself.

We've spoken before of how he connects with his audience by creating characters we can identify with, deep, rich human beings with depth and complexity, and putting them in situations we've all been through, and then thrusting them into otherworldly twists of fate.

There's been such a broad range of amazing filmmakers who have taken on King adaptations. His appeal to the creative community is that vast.

He's been adapted by David Cronenberg, John Carpenter, Stanley Kubrick, Toby Hooper, and on and on and on.

And now, we've gotten to the point where landmark King material is being remade. It, Pets Cemetery, Carrie, and Among Others, the Stan.

I directed the original Stan mini-series back in 94, and it somehow became the most watched mini-series in American television.

And now it's being revisited in a brand new nine-part limited series for CBS All Access.

The band behind this new behemoth telling of King's most beloved novel is with us today.

Josh Boone came out of a world of young adult romance with the fault in our stars, as well as other romantic dramas and comedy as a screenwriter.

But Josh's first love is the world of horror, and we'll compare notes about King, the Stan, and a life in the cinema.

Let's talk.

Josh, where did it start for you? What was the thing that took you down that dark path into the creep zone?

Well, I mean, you know, I've told this story sort of ad nauseam, but it's like it really is truly my origin story, which is, you know, my parents became quite

evangelical Christians born against kind of in the late 1980s, and a lot of things that had been okay before then became off limits.

And they had to be sort of hidden on the box springs under my bed or, you know, stored in unique places like inside a zippered leather thing for a Bible that I would take the church.

So, you know, a lot of it, I think, was a bit because it was kept pushed down and they didn't want me to have access to it.

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