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The dead zone 19796/30/2023 ![]() Several of these adaptations have been financial and critical successes (Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, Rob Reiner’s Misery, Frank Darabont’s The Shawshank Redemption), but many have been greeted with disdain or disinterest by both fans and critics (Lewis Teague’s Cat’s Eye, Tom Holland’s Thinner). To date, 26 theatrical releases and 9 made-for-tv films or miniseries have been based on King’s works, as well as one original tv series, The Golden Years. ![]() Unfortunately for King, their enthusiasm hasn’t always extended to film and television adaptations of his work. And they’ve made King one of the most powerful men in the field of publishing in the last century. These readers have made the majority of his 54 books into bestsellers, and, according to fan websites, hunger voraciously for every next bit of King’s writing to be published, even if it is “incomplete.” They don’t just read his novels and set them aside they read and reread them, excitedly explaining to anyone who will listen the thrills they experience. ![]() ![]() Few authors in history have acquired as loyal a fan base as Stephen King. ![]()
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