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Out of all the Salem’s Lot adaptations we have gotten, the last one we got was the weakest of them all. It was boring and it felt more like an action packed vampire movie rather than something unsettling like the book.

It just upsets me because this adaptation actually has a very strong cast especially Pullman as Ben. I like David Soul and Rob Lowe was okay, but Pullman I felt brought more personality to Ben than the previous 2 and he felt more energetic in the role and made you think this guy is Ben Mears accurate to the book.

Aside from Pullman, I also really liked Bill Camp and Makenzie Leigh in their parts. They were good as their characters and they look like how I would picture Matt and Susan straight from the book. Mike Ryerson also looked like his book counterpart as well.

It just pains me that they nailed down a majority of these characters through casting and they just fumble it.

I know it’s cliche to say the original is better than the remake, but given how popular the remakes are you’d think a lot of people would be saying that is better.

I do like the remakes, but when I re read the book and watch the miniseries I find myself liking the miniseries more.

The remakes focus on horror which is fine because it should, but it also needs a neutral balance of the friendship of the losers club and the horror elements.

I like the remakes better for the acting, but the miniseries overall does better story wise than the remakes. I like that its somewhat close to the time period of the book and Tim Curry looks like an actual clown that you would see in a parade where as Skarsgard’s, they are trying too hard to make him look scary.

They are both good in their own ways, but I just find myself liking Tim Curry’s It more.

As much as I like the original Salem’s Lot out of all the other adaptations, I do have to give the last one credit for one thing.

I feel Pullman brought more personality to Mears than the other 2. David Soul was good, but he kinda looked like he was bored throughout filming and even Rob Lowe didn’t bring much personality either.

Its sad because I thought Pullman was actually a good pick for Ben, but his potential as the character was wasted on a bad movie

Announced back in 2025 and the fact it’s announced that early after the 2020 adaptation shows how awful the CBS version was.

I’m very yes and no on another adaptation of The Stand, I think the original while not perfect is pretty satisfying for an adaptation of the story, but at the same time, I think there can be some improvements.

There hasn’t been much updates since the announcement other than that it’ll be one movie which makes me raise my eyebrow on how they are going to adapt this properly.

Any part that takes place in Vegas always instantly gets my attention, don’t get me wrong, the rest of the book is great, but the Vegas chapters are very interesting.

It gives me the vibe of if Vegas was Arkham asylum from Batman where the villains take over and it’s just a fun read.

Very interesting characters as well

He’s not the age for the character, but acting wise he seems like he’d be a cool onscreen Flagg. He has the ability and charm to him that Flagg has and he somewhat looks the part

Credit to the Stephen King Book Club channel.

I may just be reading too much into it, but when reading the book It, I always pictured the Neibolt house as a rundown house in a poor neighborhood and while yes that’s what it was in the movies, it looked way too unrealistic and not an abandoned house you would usually see. Like with Pennywise they tried to make the house look creepy when it would’ve been more creepy if it just looked like a normal house, but dirtier and rundown

Don’t get me wrong, I love Salem’s Lot and yes it would be nice to have a perfect adaptation of it, but it has already been adapted 3 times on screen and I don’t get why Hollywood limits to Salem’s Lot when there are other stories in that universe.

We have Jerusalem’s Lot and One For The Road that are set in the Lot universe that are ripe for adaptations.

I’ll admit I’m not being entirely fair because Jerusalem’s Lot was kinda adapted through Chapelwaite, but that was loosely based on the story and had a lot of filler that wasn’t even in the story.

I’m very yes and no on if Salem’s Lot needs to be adapted again. I love the book and I think a good faithful reimagining is possible, but I prefer other Lot stories be adapted.

I love the good ole days of Dino De Laurentiis Stephen King movies and Cat’s Eye at least for me takes the cake of being the best one

I like the overall goofiness of the movie and even though I’m not a fan of everything having to be some type of “Cinematic Universe” I do like the cameos from Cujo and Christine as well as James Woods watching The Dead Zone.

It’s just an overall entertaining 80s ride of a film that I love and it may not be ranked as high as other King adaptations, but this is a classic to me. Most of the Dino De Laurentiis King films were filmed in North Carolina and I was a fellow North Carolina resident so it sits well with me

Ik there is a deleted prologue that they filmed for this movie, but sadly we’ll never see it 😔

Something that has always bothered me about It and The Tommyknockers is whether they’re in the same universe or not.

Pennywise has a brief appearance in the Tommyknockers, but King leaves it ambiguous to whether it is an illusion or actually Pennywise.

I do like the idea of them being in the same universe, but someone pointed this out before and I noticed it as well, Dick Halloran appears in the book It and The Shining movie is mentioned in The Tommyknockers book which would make Halloran Fictional in The Tommyknockers.

And I believe Tommyknockers would take place after the events of the adult losers club in It and Derry is still intact in The Tommyknockers.

I always struggle with bridging the 2 together in a satisfying way

One of the things that was so interesting to me about this book was the Pennywise and Derry connections.

I loved how King threw in a hint of Pennywise being alive and all the internet theories online about if the main alien antagonist in Dreamcatcher, Mr Gray and Pennywise are the same entity.

Would love a good adaptation of this that kinda expands a little on this theory without revealing too much

This is a post that Jane shared on Twitter back in 2022 that From a Buick 8 is moving forward. Sadly the rights lapsed in early 2024, but luckily in a recent podcast that came out last month, Jane confirmed that he is working on the Buick 8 series so it’s safe to say he purchased the rights to the story back.

I’ve been following the development on this for a while because Thomas Jane is my favorite actor and I love him in every King movie he does.

I just hope he doesn’t make the same mistake of putting the adaptation off and coming back to it later which caused him to lose the rights to the story. I really wanna see this adaptation get made, especially with Jane involved. I don’t know if Jim Mickle is still attached to direct, Jane hasn’t confirmed that yet

No updates since 2023 I believe. I’m not particularly for or against a Christine remake. I think the original is good, but I do think there can be some improvements. Brian Fuller is a talented director so I would have liked to see his take.

There’s no confirmation of it being stalled, but I think its safe to say that is the case

One of the things I loved about the original Salem’s Lot miniseries is how some things are left ambiguous rather than fully explained like the book.

One thing that’s always stuck with me was Jason Burke’s fate kinda left ambiguous. I actually prefer we don’t know what happens to him in the miniseries than in the book, it’s just much more unsettling to me that way especially with Mike Ryerson looking for him.

We last hear that he is stable, but he’s not awake and Ben just kinda leaves him there and that’s the last we see and hear of Burke.

Some part of me wants an answer, but at the same time doesn’t.

I just always found this interesting and while not a perfect adaptation of the book, the series really has the vibe of everything that made the novel great.