Collected Short Stories

[Mr. Palmer]

As we all know, THE RAFT was collected in SKELETON CREW.

But what about OL' CHIEF WOODENHEAD and THE HITCH-HIKER? I'd love to read these as short stories. I wonder if they're ditched publishing efforts from Sai King that made it to film?

[strange]

I was just thinking the same thing. I can't find anything about them on wikipedia but maybe another person knows, or perhaps a certain moderator?

[Moderator]

From what I can find in my research, Steve only wrote the premise and George Romero wrote the actual screenplay. Both had originally been intended for Creepshow but were not used.

[wahlers]

It's not exactly the same thing, but the most recent Creepshow 2 DVD does have the screenplay as a DVD-ROM feature. Unfortunately it's a revised screenplay after Pinfall was removed...

On a related note, wouldn't it be nice if they published a hardcover 30th anniversary edition of the original Creepshow screenplay that King wrote and maybe even threw in the original short story versions of Weeds and The Crate?

[DanishReader]

According to an interview with King, back from the mid-80s, he (King) wrote what is called outlines, scenarios or sketches. King wrote these in a notebook, sent it to Romero, who scripted them. Old Chief Wood'head was first attempted as a short story that wasn't finished. The Hitch-Hiker was considered for the first film if They're Creeping Up On You didn't work out, but was never actually scripted. These two tales, plus Pinfall and the wrap-around story were outlined by King, even with some dialogues, but Romero most assuredly added to them as he scripted them.

[The11thGhost]

I had a crush on the "Native American" character with the long hair (hangsheadinshame) lol