The Riskiest Stephen King Adaptation Could Break A Long-Standing Curse

Mike Flanagan loves an adaptation. He’s already tackled The Haunting of Hill House, , King revealed his biggest problem with the movie. “It ha[d] to be PG-13, and when they did that I think that they lost a lot of the toughness of it and it became something where people went to it and said, ‘Well yeah, but it’s really not anything that we haven’t seen before,’” he said.

Notably, the interviewer then suggested that the books would be better served as a series, and could even become the next Game of Thrones, eliciting a “That might happen” from King. Now, eight years later, it is happening, and if this quote from King is anything to go by, it’ll be the faithful adaptation fans have dreamed of for years.