Stephen King, the author of Firestarter, did not approve of the original 1984 film adaptation, and he also disliked the 1997 remake of The Shining, suggesting that authors may have different visions for how their works should be translated to film.
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Zac Efron's Phenominal Career From HSM to Firestarter!Added:
And starting out where he came from, you know, it was the old uh uh teenage What was the name of that TV show that they were on?
Where they all I don't know, it's a high school. High School Musical? Maybe that's what it was. Oh. Anyway, >> [laughter] >> I've seen him in other stuff where he is pretty good. He's He's phenomenal.
>> he's he was really good in this.
So, I would like I said, I'm going to put it at a two or three. Where do you think?
I would give it a three. He's going to give it a three.
>> it it is it's thrilling enough that they got the point across, but it wasn't like a shocking whole it didn't break new grounds or it didn't like there was nothing like earth-shattering that happened, you know what I mean? It was just like it's an adequate Saturday afternoon matinee, you know, I would I wouldn't be If I paid to see this in the theaters, I wouldn't be upset about it, you know what I mean? I'd be like, "Yeah, that was It was It was a movie."
Yeah. Like I didn't feel like I was insulted. There was no lectures in there. There was no, you know what I mean?
So, >> I'd be interested to see I know Stephen King which is funny is that he A lot of the original movies that were made of his books, he didn't like the original Firestarter movie. Right.
>> And I'd be interested to see what he liked if he liked this one cuz it was not but it was I don't think it was faithful to the book either. So.
Yeah, he didn't like The Shining either.
That's true. He remade The Shining and it was in my opinion worse.
>> Yeah. And nothing And we've actually been to the the hotel where they filmed the second one. Yeah. That where he stayed. Yeah, where he stayed and how it was based on The Shining.
>> Yeah.
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