10 Stephen King Adaptations The Author HATES

Dreamcatcher came to our screens with a pedigree that seemed to promise an instant classic.

Producers Castle Rock Entertainment (named for the fictional Maine town that is a favourite King setting) had shepherded a number of successful King adaptations, most notably The Shawshank Redemption, and the film was directed by Star Wars and Indiana Jones veteran Lawrence Kasdan who had co-written the screenplay with multiple Oscar winner William Goldman (himself responsible for a past King hit with the script for Misery). But, then, it is also the one with the "sh*t-weasels".

"When you put together a script, a director, and all the other variables, you never really know what's going to come out," King told Time Magazine back in 2007, "And so you start with the idea that it's like a baseball game — you put the best team you can on the field, and you know that, more times than not, you're gonna win... That doesn't mean you're not going to have the occasional thing that's just a train wreck like Dreamcatcher."

Perhaps King is right. Maybe Dreamcatcher is the exception that proves the rule that bringing a bunch of talented people together likely means a positive result. But, then, maybe he's also right that in this particular case the result was a steaming pile of sh*t-weasels.