Sai King's Involvement

[Mr. Palmer]

According to IMDb (yes, I know it can be sometimes as trivial as Wiki), it says that Sai King had his hands in the screenplay, but refused to add his name because of the Writer's Guild.

Has anyone else ever heard this before? Ms. Mod, mayhap?

[Moderator]

That was before my time so would have to research that one.

[Mr. Palmer]

On the DVD's extras, director Lewis Teague states that Sai King wrote the original screenplay. However, since King "strayed too far from the novel," new screenwriters were brought in to finish the project.

I'd love to see Sai King's screenplay to see how far he might've strayed...

[Sweet One]

I've said this before--I've wanted to get that screenplay for some time now. The movie jsut didn't do it for me.

[aeroplane]

On the DVD's extras, director Lewis Teague states that Sai King wrote the original screenplay. However, since King "strayed too far from the novel," new screenwriters were brought in to finish the project.

I'd love to see Sai King's screenplay to see how far he might've strayed...

Isn't it usually the outside Hollywood writers that "stray" from the original novel and not the author himself? How weird

[Sweet One]

I'll tell you two things about the screenplay. Both Tad and Bannerman survive. Cujo does not kill Bannerman like in the book and the movie. Bannerman kills Cujo, saving Tad's life. A year later Bannerman is running for Mayor of Castle Rock.Tad is discovered to be suffering form childhood luekemia, but it is in remission. What you're getting here is an alternate version of the book, at least according to Rocky Wood, author of Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished. I don't consider the movie canon, BTW, since King was not the author.

Does that sound better than Teague's version or what?