Film of duma key

[constantreader85]

I don't know if anybody has wrote this already, but are they making a film of duma key. if so, who do you think should be in it?

[moonhoney2]

I hope not. I really really hate when they make movies out of books. In most cases, the movie is not even close to being as good (in a lot of cases they are downright BAD) and I think would turn people off to the written story. KWIM?

But then I'm a reader. I know a lot of people who haven't picked a book up since high school and wouldn't have any clue about the story were it not for the movie. My husband being one of those. :rolleyes: I just don't understand that. :umm:

[Haunted]

I hope not. I really really hate when they make movies out of books. In most cases, the movie is not even close to being as good (in a lot of cases they are downright BAD) and I think would turn people off to the written story. KWIM?

But then I'm a reader. I know a lot of people who haven't picked a book up since high school and wouldn't have any clue about the story were it not for the movie. My husband being one of those. :rolleyes: I just don't understand that. :umm:

Oh, Dear Heart, don't feel alone.:oh: Well, you have plenty of company here!!:biggrin2:

[michal]

It's always interesting notion, but there's also a risk - especially in book in which a large part of the story takes place int he past or in the character head - which it does in this case.

But I don't mind the risk actually - in the worst case I'll still have the book to love.

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

Frank Darabont, Frank Darabont, Frank Darabont!

And that's all I have to say on the matter LOL

Long days and pleasant nights

[Mr Nobody]

WJS. If anyone can make a Duma adaptation work, it's Frank Darabont.

[constantreader85]

I agree some of his books haven't been great films, but think the mist and 1408.

[davemelnick]

I join your boat.:confused:
Oh, Dear Heart, don't feel alone.:oh: Well, you have plenty of company here!!:biggrin2:

[Hunting Chase]

I would put Dustin Hoffman as Edgar, Diane Keaton as Pam, and Jeff Bridges as Wireman. I just think that if done with any passion, a "Duma Key" film would be a great thing to watch.

[Mugwomp]

M.C. Gainey from LOST should play Wireman. He'd be absolutely perfect for the role.

I couldn't get his face out of my head after reading his description. I could hear his voice every time I read "muchacho"...

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[Micke]

I don't know if anybody has wrote this already, but are they making a film of duma key. if so, who do you think should be in it?I think it might get good, but it depends on who's gonna make the movie. I will see it when/if it will be produced.

[Dan is Dead]

I would love it if they made it into a movie. I like to watch all the film adaptations of SK books. While there are alot that are bad, i think if they took there time and gave it enough budget that it could be done justice. Movies like shawshank, the mist, the shining (with Jack, not that gay little kid with huge lips), 1408, children of the corn, and pet semetary to name a few good ones. It can be done.

[Boni]

I hope they do it, just place Kevin Costner as Edgar, maybe Julie Andrews as Elizabeth, Tim Robbins as Wireman and Keira Knightley as Ilse. Darabont directing of course (although we know this won't happen, unless King let it).

[Raq]

I would love to see the young Anthony Hopkins as Edgar, but of course that is impossible. Still I think that a not-mainstream actors would be better for the roles. However I would like to see Jake Gyllenhaal as Jack Cantori, or even as Edgar if he would let himself go just a little bit, so he would look a few years older. It's funny because through the whole novel I've pictured Edgar as a 40some year old. There is one actor that should play Wireman (my favourite man) but I am simply unable to get his name. All I remember is that he played in of Friends episodes. He was a guy selling encyclopedias to Joey ;d And as it goes for the director I think (and my fellow King readers here from Poland agree) all movie rights should be passed on to Darabont, and Mick Garris should get a restraining order and keep away from them.

[Jack Torrance]

It's an old thread but here I go. I kept picturing Wireman as that actor who played Doc Ock in Spiderman 2. LOL!

[Jack Roman]

I think they should make it into a movie. If it turns out bad, so what! Not all movies are good, does it mean people should stop making movies? If you've read the book, no one can take that away from you. Have a nice day.:grinning:
It's always interesting notion, but there's also a risk - especially in book in which a large part of the story takes place int he past or in the character head - which it does in this case.

But I don't mind the risk actually - in the worst case I'll still have the book to love.

[vra57]

Thomas Jane as the protagonist and Sam Elliott as Wireman. I can also see Jake Gyllenhall as Jack and Betty White or Cloris Leachman as the old lady!

[RandomMan]

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John Turturro would be the perfect Wireman....I thought of him the whole time as I read Duma Key.

[mrblonde]

Wireman - Bruce Campbell (Watch burn notice)
Edgar - William Petersen (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0676973/)
Pam - Pamela Reed
Jack - Marc Blucas
Ifso Girl - Isla Fisher (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0279545/)

[GNTLGNT]

Mr. Blonde-by cracky, I think you nailed it IMO-only thing I would say, is if Cousin Brucie couldn't do it-then Sam Elliott for sure, and Ifso Girl-Pauley Perrette:wink2:

[fljoe0]

I think Brian Cox would be great as Wireman.

As far as movies from novels go, I think they mostly suck too (ever notice the movies from the books you haven't read are better?). My thinking is a little different than most people though. I think the filmaker gets in trouble when he tries to stay too faithful to the book. You just can't take a huge book and make a 2 hour movie out of it. Film is a completely different art form than a novel so the filmmaker should make the best movie he can from parts of the story he can use. Even though Stephen King will disagree with me, I think Stanley Kubrick's movie is a great movie and a visual masterpiece. It is not the novel but it's a great film and nothing about the novel has changed, you can still read it anytime you want. Kubrick just used the novel as a framework and then condensed and changed the novel to make the best movie he could. The Shining is a great novel and a great movie. Movies don't have to be exact replicas of the novel.

[JRM]

hi,

frank darabont, frank darabont, frank darabont!

And that's all i have to say on the matter lol

long days and pleasant nights

yes! Yes! Yes!

[mrlizardking]

I loved the secret window (although the book is a bit different story:cool2:) but it seemed to me that It or the fog (hope the english titles were these, I read them in spanish) were very poor. Although i haven't watch Misery but many people told me its a very good movie. I'm now reading Duma Key and i find it hard to imagine a movie with so much contents. If its going to be a bad adaptation please... leave the story alone!

[Reason4Happenings]

The only person I could think of to play Wireman was Sam Elliott. I would LOVE to see this book made into a movie! If done the right way, the visuals could be phenomenal. The story already is!

[bobledrew]

I interviewed the guy who wrote Flash Forward this weekend. He told me two things about adaptations: 1. it's a bloody miracle that ANYTHING gets made, let alone well. (He's got 20 novels out, and one TV project completed); 2. Even bad adaptations bring the original work to new audiences. The daughter of Isaac Asimov LOVED the Will Smith "I Robot" -- not because it was awful, but because it was seen by bazillions of people, and if a bazillion people saw it, a percentage of them go back to the source.

[Aericanwizard]

To the comment about the Encyclopedia guy, that was Penn Gillette, of Penn and Teller fame, and he might be an okay Wireman.

I thought the style of the novel lent itself well to animation. I would love to see it done as an animated film (I can just imagine how surreal the scenes of Edgar painting could be).

On that note, have any of Sai King's novels or stories been adapted in animation? Some of his stories are hard to portray on film, but could be amazing if animated (and handled with care).

[Nephew of Jack]

Ever since listening to the audio book I always see John Slatery in my head when I think of Edgar. I think he did a great job with the audio book.

[pelwan]

Hi. New here. I listened to the audiobook for Duma Key. I enjoyed it very much.
Here is my cast list.

Edgar: Kevin Costner (sans narration)
Elizabeth: Angie Dickinson or Jane Fonda (actually if any of the Hepburns were alive...)
Pam:Robin Wright
Ilsa: Imogen Poots
Wireman: Jeff Bridges (think "The Dude") listen to the audio book.... or Bruce Campbell
Jack: Anton Yelchin
Caymen: Billy Dee Williams

[pelwan]

As far as the movie goes, I think they could do a good job. If anyone remembers the move "What Dreams May Come"? This movie's tone would remind me of a cross between that and "Lovely Bones". If Frank Darabount directed, I think we could have a winner....

[JLette]

I hope not. I really really hate when they make movies out of books. In most cases, the movie is not even close to being as good (in a lot of cases they are downright BAD) and I think would turn people off to the written story. KWIM?

But then I'm a reader. I know a lot of people who haven't picked a book up since high school and wouldn't have any clue about the story were it not for the movie. My husband being one of those. :rolleyes: I just don't understand that. :umm:

my husband also is not a reader, while i spend most of my time reading for fun. he actually picked up and read front to back Christine after seeing the movie and coming across the book at the local flea market, i was astonished and a little horrified when i couldn't get him to go to sleep because HIS face was jammed into that book...it is usually the other way around, kind of unsettling lol

[nick.gregory]

I've read some a couple of suggestions that Jeff Bridges should play Wireman. Guess I saw it differently. I have Jeff Bridges as Edgar and had him since page one. I think of Jeff from "K-Pax" and "The Fisher King", and then at the beginning when he's frequently in hospital beds, I imagine long haired Bridges from "..Lebowski" and et cetera. Flows in my head easily. Someone's suggestion that Dustin Hoffman play Edgar appealed to me as well. Wireman I cast as Christopher Lee-- although I made him a bit younger than he currently is-- something between "The Wicker Man" and "The Lord of the Rings". And then Pam I cast as Natalie Portman, although reluctantly. But that's been working out for me okay. Miss Eastlake I'll probably surprise you on, as I casted the little old Taylor Mead. Old people are somewhat androgynous, was my thought, and who can do alzheimers better than Taylor Mead?
As far as directors, sure, Darabont. But I'd be okay with any number of choices. I think a talented director more used to another genre might do better making horror less conventional, more internalized, and so on. Sam Mandez maybe.

[xforce11]

Ever since listening to the audio book I always see John Slatery in my head when I think of Edgar. I think he did a great job with the audio book. I SO agree. He was wonderful audio actor and made the story. I could really see him as edgar. I could see Bruce Campbell as Wireman. Darabont has to direct!

[Bryan James]

The VAST majority of King's works do not work onscreen. The few that have, however, prove to be spectacular, and I won't insult you by naming the obvious.

Most of his novels: They linger and lounge and persist in our hearts and heads. They should stay on paper and in our individual imaginations.

Duma Key cannot work well on screen.

[doowopgirl]

The VAST majority of King's works do not work onscreen. The few that have, however, prove to be spectacular, and I won't insult you by naming the obvious.

Most of his novels: They linger and lounge and persist in our hearts and heads. They should stay on paper and in our individual imaginations.

Duma Key cannot work well on screen.
I am so happy to ear someone else say this. The vast majority of SKbooks work so well because they appeal to our minds and his ability to make us put ourselves IN the story. That does not always translate well to the big screen. But like you said, the ones that do work, work spectacularly.

[rmorote]

I disagree. I believe this would make an excellent movie. Brian Cranston(Breaking Bad, Malcolm in the Middle) as Edgar or Michael C Hall (Dexter) as Edgar.
Wireman should be either Stephen Seagal (Under Siege) or Michael Madson (Resevoir Dogs).

I love when SK works in the roaring 20s into the story plot (ala The Shining).. that time period has a way of being eerie and haunting. The tinny sound of the music mixed with innocence and intrigue.. perfect mix!

[Chuggs]

I love the books first and foremost, but I like the movies too...in most cases. Especially when they are based on Sai King's stuff. :wink2:

[blunthead]

The VAST majority of King's works do not work onscreen. The few that have, however, prove to be spectacular, and I won't insult you by naming the obvious.

Most of his novels: They linger and lounge and persist in our hearts and heads. They should stay on paper and in our individual imaginations.

Duma Key cannot work well on screen.
(Why am I thinking "vast"...) I disagree that Duma Key would not work well onscreen and with the idea that sK movies which haven't worked have necessarily failed due to the original stories. I especially think Duma Key would work very well, but quailty artists need to be involved and Hollywood needs to care enough to try to make a superior movie. The sK movies which have failed have failed, imho, due to neglect by producers due to their bias against horror as a serious genre. One of sK's great accomplishements has been to prove Hollywood wrong about himself, his fans, and his art by writing superior stories which he makes as easy to translate to the screen as they tend to be. He has stated the reason for this is that his writing style is visual.

[fushingfeef]

The vast majority of ALL films don't work--(Sturgeon's law: "90% of everything is crap" definitely applies to the movie industry) But I think any movie with the "Stephen King" name on it has a better chance of getting made at all, regardless of whether the screenplay/acting/director is actually any good. Add in the huge expectations we fans have, and the odds are kinda stacked against SK movies from the start.

Look at all those Elvis movies in the 60's...they were going to get made simply because Elvis was in them. Most of them were bad or average. Same goes for Stephen King movies, although personally I think they're batting better than .100.

[blunthead]

The vast majority of ALL films don't work--(Sturgeon's law: "90% of everything is crap" definitely applies to the movie industry) But I think any movie with the "Stephen King" name on it has a better chance of getting made at all, regardless of whether the screenplay/acting/director is actually any good. Add in the huge expectations we fans have, and the odds are kinda stacked against SK movies from the start.

Look at all those Elvis movies in the 60's...they were going to get made simply because Elvis was in them. Most of them were bad or average. Same goes for Stephen King movies, although personally I think they're batting better than .100.You're right that most movies have issues, some have many fatal ones, and since a producer's job is about money it's understandable that any Elvis movies got made. I don't seem to see a connection between Elvis and sK in Hollywood terms.

As for the quality of players, such as screenwriters, actors, directors, they look at a project as producers do. If they figure it's not a good bet quality artists turn it down. Producers, especially those lacking vision, imagination, and the risk gene, know this and reasonably insist on a product which is a decent bet. I think Stephen King has managed to reassure Hollywood ignoramuses that he's a damn good product due to the existence of Shawshank, Stand By Me, The Green Mile, and others, and I think this is a very good thing for every movie fan and potential future Constant Reader, as well as current CRs.

[Buffin]

This is one of my favorites! When I read it, I picture Jessica Tandy as Miss Eastlake. I guess that won't work, though.

[mrblonde]

Bruce Campbell is Wireman
and I like Tom Hanks for Edgar.

[Daniel Lee Severn]

I can see Dustin Hoffman, Brian Cranston, or John Slattery as Edgar and Sam Elliot, Jeff Bridges, or Bruce Campbell as Wireman with Frank Darabont directing. I would be happy then.

[kindle4me]

Is a movie of Duma Key being made?

[Moderator]

Is a movie of Duma Key being made?

Not at this time.