10 Stephen King Movie Adaptations That Deserve A Remake
8. The Dark Half
The Dark Half was a celebrated novel of King’s, but the movie which followed in 1993 never quite achieved the same cult status among horror fans, and is definitely deserving of a remake that does the story justice. The original film was directed by King’s good friend George A. Romero after they had first collaborated together on Creepshow.
The movie stars Timothy Hutton as author Thad Beaumont, a struggling writer of highbrow literacy, who actually makes a successful living writing horror novels under his pseudonym George Stark. When he is blackmailed into having his secret unleashed, the writer and his agent decide its time he lets the world know that Beaumont and Stark are one and the same. He then symbolically buries Stark in a publicity stunt, vowing to concentrate only on his true passion moving forwards.
However, from here and in true slasher movie style, someone starts to pick off everyone involved in the demise of the alter ego, and Beaumont’s finger prints are all over the crime scenes as he struggles to comprehend the physical manifestation of his alter ego. The Dark Half has all the right ingredients to make a great movie, but Romero’s version has largely been forgotten, and could easily be redone better while bringing the story to a fresh audience.