This one will have a lamp monster.

Surool: This one will have a lamp monster.

We can only hope.

It's the HALOGEN FROM HELL.

/satanic Sylvania

I think King's idea for a "sleep doctor" might be worth exploring, but why must it involve characters from The Shining?

Read more: WTF: Stephen King Is Planning a Sequel to The Shining?!


You know how I know this guy hasn't read the Dark Tower?

I wonder if he can hit 2,000 pages since he's obviously paid by the word.

/misses his short stories

Simpsons did it.

eddyatwork: I wonder if he can hit 2,000 pages since he's obviously paid by the word.

/misses his short stories

He just had one in the New Yorker! Link (new window)

In a perfect world, Scatman Crothers will rise from the grave and Hong-Kong Phooey this idea directly at the base of its skull.

Best story he ever wrote.

At first I was...


But then I was...

THE WIND THROUGH THE KEYHOLE
//that is all
Why, Just WHY?
He rewrote the gunslinger...


/// Needs to rewrite the trash that was DarkTower 5,6,7

////It all went 19

Stephen King has run out of ideas. Do you think he will put himself in this one as well?

skatch: Stephen King has run out of ideas.

His best work seems to be from the period when he was a drunk cocaine fiend.

Same goes for Robin Williams.

drunk cocaine fiend from D.C. on the 20th
/Front Row!

skatch: Stephen King has run out of ideas. Do you think he will put himself in this one as well?



Yeah, I heard he's even stealing ideas from the Simpsons...

TappingTheVein: skatch: Stephen King has run out of ideas.

His best work seems to be from the period when he was a drunk cocaine fiend.

Same goes for Robin Williams.

And Aerosmith.

And Metallica.

/a trend, you say?

I heard him say roughly the same thing in an interview at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul.
He also said he was having trouble making the story work and it sounded like he was NOT going to write the sequel.

Finding out what Danny Torrance is like 20 years later does sound appealing, though.

I think Mr. King has proven himself to me, as I have enjoyed every book he's ever written. So, yeah, if he wants to update us on the whereabouts of some of his classic characters, I'm cool with that.

Surool: This one will have a lamp monster.

See, this is how rumors get started. I have not been contacted for this role.

Perhaps ninjas could be incorporated into this story. I think its time for ninjas.

Lampmonster: Surool: This one will have a lamp monster.

See, this is how rumors get started. I have not been contacted for this role.

It's too late. I've already contacted Entertainment Tonight.

tagjim: Simpsons did it.

"Daaaavid Letterman!"
"Hi, David, I'm Grandpa!"

Shadowknight: I think Mr. King has proven himself to me, as I have enjoyed every book he's ever written. So, yeah, if he wants to update us on the whereabouts of some of his classic characters, I'm cool with that.

agreed...but sometimes it is difficult to understand the evolution from the shining, cujo, pet sematary to...from a buick 8.

This will only work if he starts drinking again.

Potentially there is an interesting story to be told.

Also the potential is there for a lot of fail.

It was pretty cool how lil' Wil Wheaton grew up into Richard Dreyfuss.

This doesn't sound like a sequel, just the same character. His characters always intermingle in his novels.

On Fark before, but this is genius level crazy:
http://www.jayweidner.com/ShiningSecrets.html

I liked seeing Dick Halloran pop up in other bits of King's stuff - specifically the flashbacks in IT that covered the librarian's research into Derry's history. IT is by no means a sequel, just digging into stuff previously laid down.

I don't know that it sounds like a sequel either, just more exploration of this particular phenomena with returning characters.

/Under the Dome was actually very good

Under the Dome has a sly reference to who the real bad guys are that hardcore King fans will get.

Pennywise the Clown is amused.

Ender's: You know how I know this guy hasn't read the Dark Tower?

I haven't read the Dark Tower either, though I know the gist of the story.

But the first thing I thought was, surely King has now rewritten "The Shining" in his own mind so that it's all tied into his weird religious multidimensional world like all his other books, so... the Torrances are probably due for a reappearance somehow.

Plus someone in the story has to be the R.F. evil guy, right? Or maybe that's supposed to be the spirit of the hotel?

Arthur Jumbles: skatch: Stephen King has run out of ideas. Do you think he will put himself in this one as well?



Yeah, I heard he's even stealing ideas from the Simpsons...

Ah come one. I'm reading Under the Dome right now, and I think it's pretty good so far.

/only 100 or so pages in

No TV and no beer make homer something something

Hi I'm Lauren: He just had one in the New Yorker! Link (new window)

Interesting. Just read it now... any thoughts?

The Dulling, by Steven King

Sounds more like a spinoff than a sequel.

PhillyBoy: No TV and no beer make homer something something

Go crazy?

Is there some kind of weird disease going around that will just make a writer/director/producer's head explode if they attempt to think up a slightly different plotline for anything?

Because they sure as hell ACT like there is.

F'in remakes of sequels of spinoffs of retreads.

Arthur Jumbles: skatch: Stephen King has run out of ideas. Do you think he will put himself in this one as well?

Yeah, I heard he's even stealing ideas from the Simpsons...

The Simpsons stole the idea for the dome so that makes no sense.

KingKauff: PhillyBoy: No TV and no beer make homer something something

Go crazy?

Don't mind if I do!

one... chorus line of people... dancing till they make us stop...


\urge to kill...rising.

I've absolutely loved the first 85% of every Stephen King book I've read. But he seems to have a knack for screwing up endings. Or maybe just building things up so much that no ending could possibly satisfy the story.

Case in point, the last Dark Tower novels :(

As long as Kubrick directs the movie version of the sequel, everything will be just fine.

phlegmography: As long as Kubrick directs the movie version of the sequel, everything will be just fine.

Somehow, it would just make the movie that much cooler...

Stanley is spinning his gra...er, bathtub.

spoiler alert: here is the plot twist from Under the Dome.

GaidinCanuck: On Fark before, but this is genius level crazy:
http://www.jayweidner.com/ShiningSecrets.html

Or batshiat stupid.

It's certainly one.

Every sentence is a paragraph.

That's annoying.

FTFA: Of course, King has yet to start writing the book, and right now the whole thing only exists as an idea

Which means his publisher won't get the final draft for at least another four or five days.

Fundamental Thereom Of Farkulus: from a buick 8.

I actually liked that one, too. It was a bit of an urban legend, like that haunted house every kid in every small town was convinced existed in their home town. Only this was a car, and it happened to possibly be true.

LonMead: At first I was...


But then I was...

LOL that screw up actually worked. First he did freeze, then he basically became inactive.

Pssht. Who cares? Is Stephen King even relevant
(dirty birdy no one likes stephen king i need to find a way to kill)
anymore? His books are overly long and so ridiculously detailed. Do I need to read in the Tommyknockers about some some biatch old woman masturbating in a hotel with her nasty dildo?
(she was a real dirty birdy)
Are his books good enough to become classics, or are they the equivalent of a McDonald's meal of literature, as King has called them himself?
(o africa)

The Shining was great. Let him write it and maybe he gets it right. Whats the harm?