It didn’t take that much convincing to get actor Garrett Hedlund to star in Stephen King‘s very first podcast adaptation: “Strawberry Spring,” a short story from 1978’s creepy collection Night Shift. Jared Gutstadt, of podcast network Audio Up, first approached the Mudbound actor about the concept. “He said, ‘I want …
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We’ve almost made it through an objectively terrible 2020 — and while you wait for this annus miserablis to finally end, there’s a lot of stuff to watch while you’re stuck at home, wishing you could be with loved ones and remembering better times. Need a holiday-centric special episode of …
Read More »Stephen King on His New Horror Novel, the 'Nightmare' of Trump, and 'Stranger Things'
Donald Trump was still months away from being elected president when Stephen King began writing his new novel. But The Institute — out September 10th and centered on a 12-year-old boy stolen from his parents in the night and locked up in a mysterious facility — is likely to remind …
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A mysterious “original sin” plagues the Stephen King multiverse in the latest trailer for Castle Rock. The author’s upcoming Hulu anthology series with J.J. Abrams is set in the fictional Maine town from many of King’s stories. “Everyone’s got a theory about how it started, about Castle Rock’s original sin,” …
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