Film buff Stephen King on The Life of Chuck adaptation, and the one movie he walked out of
Stephen King 's first editor, Bill Thompson, once said: 'Steve has a movie camera in his head.'
So vividly drawn is King's fiction that it has offered the basis for some 50 feature films. For half a century, since Brian De Palma's 1976 film Carrie, Hollywood has turned, and turned again, to King's books for their richness of character, nightmare and sheer entertainment.
Open any of those books up at random, and there's a decent chance you'll encounter a movie reference, too. Rita Hayworth. The Wizard of Oz. Singin' in the Rain. Sometimes even movies based on King's books turn up in his novels.
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'I love anything from The 400 Blows to something with that guy Jason Statham,' King says, speaking by phone from his home in the US state of Maine. 'The worst movie I ever saw was still a great way to spend an afternoon.'
'The only movie I ever walked out on was Transformers. At a certain point I said, 'This is just ridiculous.''
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