Horror Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot

[Sawyer]

Which now begs the question: who is Sadler playing?

 

[Sawyer]

Mark Petrie and the Glick brothers. Just leaves Barlow…

 

[Sawyer]

Looks like this is going to be period and I couldn’t be more pleased.

 

[Doctor Jones]

That's surprising but I'm good with that. It creates more dread when there isn't modern technology around to communicate with the outside world when **** goes down.

I'm glad it's not the 80s. It's time to put 80s nostalgia to bed.

 

[Pennywise]

 

[DarkKnight88]

LOVE that it’s a period piece, or should I say, accurate to when the book takes place.

And hey, if it becomes a big hit ala IT, make a present day sequel with Bill Pullman as old Ben Mears.

 

[Sawyer]

I'm glad it's not the 80s. It's time to put 80s nostalgia to bed.

I think the 80s made sense for IT, considering they were reverse engineering a modern-day Chapter 2. And then with Stranger Things, they were obviously aiming harken back to Spielberg’s early Amblin stuff and King at the height of his powers.

I don’t know if I can defend anything else cashing in on 80s nostalgia, though.

 

[Sawyer]

Marsten House, I wonder?

EDIT: Guess so.

 

[Sawyer]

Could very easily be wrong, but Wikipedia has Sadler listed as playing Barlow.

 

[Lily Adler]

LOVE that it’s a period piece, or should I say, accurate to when the book takes place.

And hey, if it becomes a big hit ala IT, make a present day sequel with Bill Pullman as old Ben Mears.

I was hoping IT would spark a new surge of good Stephen King adaptations.

 

[Drizzle]

I was hoping IT would spark a new surge of good Stephen King adaptations.

It kind of did with varying results. The Pet Sematary remake was meh but Doctor Sleep wasn't bad. There'd probably be even more of them if not for Covid slowing things down.

 

[DarkKnight88]

Yeah, I’d say we got Doctor Sleep with the talent it did and the budget it did because of the success of IT. It’s a miracle really.

 

[Lily Adler]

It kind of did with varying results. The Pet Sematary remake was meh but Doctor Sleep wasn't bad. There'd probably be even more of them if not for Covid slowing things down.

I want to include this, but I guess they were made at the same time:

Western Idris Elba doing things for me that would be considered TMI, aside...

 

[Drizzle]

I want to include this, but I guess they were made at the same time:

Western Idris Elba doing things for me that would be considered TMI, aside...

Yyyyyyyyyyyeah, the less said about that one, the better. Idris deserved better. But at the same time, I also remember that came out like a month before IT did back in 2017. Stephen King couldn't stop gushing about IT on social media while he all but ignored The Dark Tower.

 

[Lily Adler]

Yyyyyyyyyyyeah, the less said about that one, the better. Idris deserved better. But at the same time, I also remember that came out like a month before IT did back in 2017. Stephen King couldn't stop gushing about IT on social media while he all but ignored The Dark Tower.

That could've been an awesome franchise, but a simplistic sequel series was a terrible idea.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Yeah. It breaks my heart that random short stories King wrote that no one even cares about have gotten film adaptations but his greatest achievement (IMO) got that POS movie. I still hope the pilot for that canceled Dark Tower TV series leaks online. I don’t know if it was good but it certainly sounded like the show runner had a better handle on Roland and the Ka-Tet than whoever directed the Elba movie.

 

[Lily Adler]

Yeah. It breaks my heart that random short stories King wrote that no one even cares about have gotten film adaptations but his greatest achievement (IMO) got that POS movie. I still hope the pilot for that canceled Dark Tower TV series leaks online. I don’t know if it was good but it certainly sounded like the show runner had a better handle on Roland and the Ka-Tet than whoever directed the Elba movie.

Oh I forgot they were doing that. Did the poor reception of the film kill it?

 

[DarkKnight88]

Oh I forgot they were doing that. Did the poor reception of the film kill it?

Apparently

According to a Deadline report from earlier this year, Amazon decided to pass on The Dark Tower because executives didn't feel it was on the same level as the planned Lord of the Rings and Wheel of Time series.

'The Dark Tower' showrunner details plans for scrapped Amazon series

 

[The Joker]

Marsten House, I wonder?

EDIT: Guess so.

It looks good. But its not on a hill by the looks of it. In the book and in the 1979 movie it was on a hill overlooking the town making it even creepier like it was watching them.

 

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William Sadler Is Kurt Barlow
Posted: January 31, 2022, 14:22:33
Section: Film » Salem's Lot
William Sadler will play Kurt Barlow in the 2022 remake of Salem's Lot. In the 1979 version Reggie Nalder played Barlow and in the 2004 remake Rutger Hauer.

Copied from Lilja's Library: Lilja's Library - The World of Stephen King [1996 - 2022]

 

[Sawyer]

When did they drop the first teaser for IT? Summer, probably, right? Too bad. From one creature of the night to another, I feel like The Batman would be a helluva way to usher in this movie’s marketing.

EDIT: Never mind, it looks like the first movie’s teaser dropped in March of 2017, so… fingers crossed.

 

[Sawyer]

Logo.

 

[Sawyer]

 

[Pennywise]

 

[Sawyer]