This is really cool! Did you read Willa? It was a short (well, not that short) story in Just After Sunset. It was one of those stories that has a "OH!" moment. You know, like Matrix, when you realize the world is really a computer simulation. There's a moment in Willa when everything changes. It's a sweet story. Now, want to see Willa? Sure you do! Well, King fans are in luck.
Christopher Birk is directing his first movie. . . and it's a Stephen King story. Exciting to see fresh talent, and we are always anxious to see those wonderful stories brought to life. The project is well along the way, but still looking for investors.
The website explains that Birk was inspired to do this movie by a friend who had also directed a Stephen King short story. It was a short film but Christopher decided to make 'Willa' a feature film.
The story: David goes to find his fiancee, Willa. She has left him at a train station with a group of stranded passengers. He finds her at a local honky-tonk of a club and in his attempt to bring her back he learns the horrifying truth about why they cannot stay at the station.
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Good story, definitely one of the highlights of "Just After Sunset."
ReplyDeleteIt was, wasn't it! I also liked Gingerbread girl a lot. Have you noticed how King's "short" stories have grown in size since Night Shift and Skeleton Crew. at 30 pages, some of them edge near novella.
ReplyDeleteYeah, "Gingerbread Girl" is really good, too. Honestly, pretty much all of "Just After Sunset" is good. My favorite was the disgustingly awesome "A Very Tight Place." I hope that one never gets made into a movie, because if it did, I'd have to see it, and seriously, how gross would that movie be? (Although I survived "Jackass 3D," which had a rather similar situation, and THAT was entirely real.)
ReplyDelete"N." is another great one from that collection, and it's one of the ones that edges into the novella range. From everything I've ever read, King just sorta starts writing and lets the story take him where it wants to go, so I suppose it makes sense that a lot of them end up in that mid-range between short story and novella.
The real reason they've grown in length, though, probably has more to do with the fact that back in his early days of short-story writing, he was often probably trying very hard to write to a certain length. In those days, if the stories went long then they just didn't get published!
Just thought I'd share a link to another one of Stephen King's short stories adaptations. The Ten O'clock People is shooting this fall makingtenoclock.com
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