10 STUPIDLY Obvious Movies Hollywood Is Ignoring

7. Insomnia

To get a movie off the page and into theaters, they normally have to meet one of the following criteria.

A) Is it something that audiences will want to see?

B) Is it something that will provide a return on the studio's investment?

or C) Is it just something that Stephen King has written?

To date, something like 35 movies has been produced based on King's novels, and that's not even including the countless TV series, spin-off stories, and graphic novels that have used his daunting catalogue of IP. Virtually every one of his major successes has been co-opted for cinematic consumption with only two very notable exceptions.

They are Rage, which owing to its narrative of high-school shootings is perhaps too hot for anyone to ever properly tackle, and Insomnia. Set in Derry, the same fictional town that gave us It and Dreamcatcher, the story centers around a man named Ralph and the many creatures he initially believes he's hallucinating.

While not one of King's personal favourites it's been held up as one of his more horrifying and suspenseful, with the plot effectively becoming a waking nightmare of cosmic proportions. Just sort of snip around all the ways it ties in to the Dark Tower and bob's your uncle.