Hello pod, I'm Chris Eoden, welcome to the ranking, which is a new monthly empire podcast

in which myself and three other empire writers argue the toss on a popular series or the

work of a popular director or popular writer. And we try and rank their films to finitively

coming up with a top 10 now you will be able to read that top 10 and I concise version

of this in the magazine. So this is a companion piece, companion podcast, if you will. And

today we will be Stephen King's planning over the next 40 minutes or so we'll be discussing

the films of Stephen King and trying to come up with what we think are the definitive top

10 Stephen King films. And joining me for that King's planning, we have Nick DeSemilin,

hello, we have James Dyer, hello, and we have Simon Kruck. Hello. All right, so let's talk

of our Stephen King. But I think it's been a pretty good year for Stephen King adaptations.

After maybe a little bit of a follow period, we've got obviously some great cinematic adaptations

and the dark tower. We had we had it this year, we had Gerald's game on TV, we had Mr. Mercedes,

and of course the dark tower, which didn't live up to its promise. Not good. Weirdly short

for something based on a series of epic novels. It was about 40 minutes long or something.

I wish it had been 40 minutes long, I caught up with the dark tower. That's just,

let's just get ahead of the way the dark tower is not going to be on our list, right? It's not

going to end at any of our top 10. Well, Chris, no, it isn't. Jim, but you were just

perverse enough to maybe stick it on your top 10. It's sort of thing I would do, but even I couldn't

put that on at no, just just there's a whole world of no. Even though the lead character is called

Roland and I approve of that, I can't get on board with this film. Are we massive King Vanzers

room? Let's just establish our King credentials, Simon. We can fail to have films actually rather than

rather than the books themselves. I quite like his short stories rather than his novels. I think he's

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