In one of his EW columns recently, King was talking about Lost and referred to something that “Gordie Lachance in Rob Reiner’s Stand By Me” said as “the greatest critique of old television”. I haven’t read the book so I don’t know if that particular part (where Gordie is talking about Wagon Train) was in there or if it was added to the screenplay, but I thought it was so transparent that he would try to play it off as though he wasn’t hyping something based off of his own work. It’s sad that he said anything bad about QT though, because in Full Tilt Boogie Quentin praises King’s writing and said how it was an inspiration for the characters in FDTD, characters that you actually care about in a horror story and have a personal vested interest in when the horror stuff happens. I think it should be settled in what I think would be a really cool indie film, a compendium of short adaptations from King’s stories in Everything’s Eventual, and Quentin should do either the first one where the guy is paralyzed and he’s completely aware of everything happening at his own autopsy; or the one where the journalist escapes an underground torture dungeon in Mexico (although maybe that would be more Rodriguez’s speed.)
Add Brian Koppelman to the pro list, he wrote that article that’s on the Pulp Fiction CE dvd.
