6 Stephen King Motion pictures We would Like to See Remade

Individuals remaking Stephen King movies is about as frequent as, properly, people making Stephen King movies within the first place. For each new adaptation of a King story we see on the market, there’s a minimum of one or two new spins on one thing that’s already occurred. For each The Life of Chuck, there’s a brand new Firestarter or Carrie. For each The Long Walk, there’s a brand new Salem’s Lot or Pet Sematary.

After all, there are additionally many Stephen King diversifications that haven’t but been remade. Some shouldn’t. Classics like The Shawshank Redemption, Stand by Me, or Distress come to thoughts. Others have, and we nonetheless can’t imagine it. That we’ve seen a number of variations of The Shining or The Stand, for instance, remains to be form of mindboggling. (And sure, we’re looping in a number of long-form TV diversifications in right here too.)

However then, there’s one other class. The remakes that might, or ought to, occur. This week, a type of hits theaters. Edgar Wright’s The Running Man is an entirely new tackle the unique King novel, one that is much more faithful than the cult basic 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger movie. So, are there others like that? We predict so. Listed here are six different King movies we’d like to see remade.

Most Overdrive

We all know. There are various, many followers on the market of this King-directed 1986 movie starring Emilio Estevez. It’s form of enjoyable. It’s bizarre. It’s campy. However there’s additionally a model of this story—about know-how changing into sentient and violent—that might be a very totally different film. Possibly not a greater film, however a singular and extra attention-grabbing film. (Actually, there was a TV remake of this already in 1997, however, to be trustworthy, we haven’t seen it.)

Thinner

This 1996 movie, directed by Tom Holland (not that one), is mostly thought-about to be crappy. And but, the story feels ripe for a recent take. It’s about an overweight lawyer who’s cursed to shed pounds, and in a world the place weight reduction medicine have gotten more and more widespread, don’t you assume there’s a extra authoritative and well timed model that might be made?

The Mangler

One other killer machine film, and in a world the place we’re more and more beholden to know-how, wouldn’t it hit otherwise now? Sure, legendary director Tobe Hooper made the 1995 model starring two icons in Robert Englund and Ted Levine, however even with that stage of expertise, it’s simply not that nice. Let’s make an awesome film a few killer industrial laundry machine.

Dreamcatcher

If immediately, in 2025, you introduced that Lawrence Kasdan was making a Stephen King movie starring Timothy Olyphant, Thomas Jane, Morgan Freeman, Donnie Wahlberg, and Tom Sizemore, you’d in all probability be like, “How is that doable? Tom Sizemore is useless.” All jokes apart, although, the purpose is that’s a hell of a lineup. And but this story about 4 pals that share a psychic means, involving aliens extra, was such a miss that we’d like to see another person take a crack at it.

The Langoliers

That is form of a cheat as a result of it’s a type of made-for-TV diversifications, however that didn’t cease It from changing into a superb film, proper? And The Langoliers, which is form of like a Stephen King horror model of Misplaced, seems like there’s probably one thing there if dealt with accurately. Possibly taking its parts and actually honing them in, as a substitute of spreading them out, might be thrilling.

The Darkish Tower

Making The Darkish Tower right into a single film was by no means a good suggestion. Even with Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba within the leads, it’s just too epic a narrative to be informed in a single film, even if you happen to reduce and paste issues round. This one, we all know, is already probably being made by Stephen King whisperer Mike Flanagan, however it’s such a gargantuan activity, we figured we’d put it on this checklist merely to place the great mojo on the market.

Are there some other Stephen King motion pictures you assume must be remade? What about ones you assume ought to by no means be remade? Be at liberty to debate all of it under.

And, if you’re a King fan, positively take a look at The Life of Chuck and The Long Walk, which each got here out lately (and weren’t remakes), in addition to The Operating Man, in theaters now.

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