Creepshow Cup

In full disclosure -- David Marancik‎ shared this on Mark Pavia's timeline.  Mark Pavia is the director of Night Flier.

As for the cup. . . that's totally cool!  Why?  Because it's unique.

The Night Flier Widescreen Hits YOUTUBE

Mark Pavia, director of Night Flier, posted: Well, this is pretty. For the first time on YouTube, THE NIGHT FLIER widescreen and in HD...

Mark Pavia DRAG

Mark Pavia writes, I get a lot of email asking how Stephen King discovered me, then hired me to make THE NIGHT FLIER. This was how...

The Vimeo page notes:

"DRAG is the best short horror film I've seen in twenty years- smart, scary, and ferocious." -- Stephen King
"DRAG" - Mark Pavia's legendary 16mm zombie short was discovered and championed by the master of horror himself, Stephen King. This is the film that landed Pavia in the writer/director's chair for Stephen King's "The Night Flier", the vampire cult classic.
Shot in and around Pavia's home town of Lockport, Illinois, "DRAG" was also an early effort by Academy Award winning DP Mauro Fiore (AVATAR). 

Stephen King Returns To Horror Movies!

As I posted earlier, a new Stephen King anthology is in the works.  Very exciting!  For what it's worth, on my end, I loved Night Flier!  Very creepy tone.  So news that Mark Pavia is headed back to Stephen King country is exciting news to me.

Britgeek at Ain't It Cool News has this great post.  I am posting this with permission from Britgeek! 

Britgeek here.

Stephen King is quite possibly the greatest writer of our time and it's amazing just how many novels, short stories and screenplays he manages to produce each and every year. What's also incredible is how, for an author best known for his contribution to horror, King is such a diverse wordsmith, tackling drama, science fiction and fantasy on numerous occasions throughout his long and wildly successful career. One example would be his latest novel, 11.22.63, which is proving to be his most successful work in years and yet isn't a horror yarn. My favourite King book? IT. My favourite King film adaptation? THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION. Many aren't even aware that he penned the short story of which long-time collaborator Frank Darabont (THE GREEN MILE, THE MIST) adapted for the screen.

One of the my favourite King movie adaptations that does fall under horror, however (and one of the most overlooked), is THE NIGHT FLIER from 1997, directed by Mark Pavia and starring the great Miguel Ferrer as a journalist for a trashy magazine who is hot on the tail of a vampire that gets around not by morphing into a bat, but by taking to the skies in a plane. It's excellent and not nearly enough people talk about it these days. Pavia and King co-wrote the screenplay for a sequel, THE NIGHT FLIER: FEAR OF FLYING (a script I'm dying to read), but it's been kept under lock and key for years by producer Richard Rubenstein at New Line. I really hope to see the project get the green light one day. But until then, we have another Pavia/King collaboration in the works in the form of an anthology film. Yes, the man who made the legendary CREEPSHOW with George A. Romero is currently developing a yet-to-be-titled horror anthology with Pavia that will consist of four tales of terror. Pavia is currently writing the script, which consists of four tales of terror of which are from the mind of King.

While there have been rumblings for months about big-budget Hollywood adaptations of THE STAND and the utterly epic THE DARK TOWER series, news that King is returning to horror movies in a writing capacity and possibly more is music to my ears. I can't wait to find out what these two have up their sleeves.

What are your favourite Stephen King stories and movies?

TTFN.
Britgeek

POSTED FROM: Ain't It Cool News

New Anthology Film In The Works

Dark Horizon's Garth Franklin has posted that Mark Pavia is writing a script for an new anthology film featuring the work of Stephen King.  Franklin notes that this is something we haven't seen since Creepshow and Cat's Eye.

Franklin writes:

Pavia tells Icons of Fright that "Steve chose two of the stories and I chose two — the selection a perfect mixture of classic and contemporary King, a little bit of something for his oldest and newest fans alike. It will be a true representation of his different personas, his varied styles and voices throughout the years. Everything from the horror showman at his pulpiest to his most introverted and introspective character pieces, which can also be his most frightening."

Pavia previously directed the 1997 adaptation of King's "The Night Flier" about a journalist that tracks a vampire pilot.  (HERE)