Film Brain discusses this documentary covering the horror master's film adaptations, speaking with the people that made them, that perhaps tries to take on too expansive of a subject to fit in just one film.
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00:00 Out in the US and the UK is Daphne Bywyr's documentary "King" on screen, which talks
00:05 about Stephen King's film adaptations with the directors that made them, including Shawshank's
00:10 Frank Darabont, Dr Sleep's Mike Flanagan, Sleepwalker's Mick Garris, and a whole host
00:15 more.
00:16 Carmita and Cronenberg are absent, but a major omission is Rob Reiner, who made "Stand
00:21 By Me" and "Misery".
00:22 And also, despite this being made by a woman, it's an all-male interviewee cast, so no
00:27 Mary Lambert from Pet Sematary either.
00:30 A lot of the best stuff in the documentary comes from Flanagan and Darabont, especially
00:33 the latter as he talks about Tom Hanks' generosity on the Green Mile or how Shawshank
00:38 nearly had Tom Cruise in it.
00:40 The biggest issue with the documentary is the sheer breadth of the subject and trying
00:43 to cover too much in only an hour and three quarters, which means it doesn't have a
00:46 lot of depth and it would have benefited from focusing more on the subject of adaptation,
00:51 aside from the fact that King hated the Kubrick Shining.
00:54 Most King fans will already know this stuff, but it does make a fairly good primer for