“Why Don’t You Just Step Aside?”: Stephen King Explains Why Spielberg’s Planned Adaptation Of Hit 1980s Novel Spent Decades In Development Hell

the Extra-Terrestrial, andJurassic Park.

King feels that he was treated like a child and arguments led to the movie never being made.

I don’t know anything about [The Talisman].

I’ve had that luxury, frankly.

I was drinking a lot then and doing a lot of dope.

And I’m like, OK, we’re talking about a grown-up man here, a creative person.

Why don’t you just step aside and let us do our thing?

And it just never worked out.

Given the length of the novel,it will have more time to breathe as a series.