
This past week, you may have seen Stephen King’s reaction to “barely masked gloating” about The Marvels’ box office struggle, and read Tom Hiddleston’s impressions of the upcoming film The Life Of Chuck, but those aren’t the only cool developments in the world of Stephen King that we’ve seen in the last few days, and The King Beat is here to catch you up with some cool things you may have missed.
In this edition of the column, we have writer/director Mike Flanagan’s thoughts on the best last lines in cinema history (including two Stephen King adaptations), King’s thoughts on the uncut/TV version of Needful Things, a celebration of Pet Sematary’s 40th anniversary, and more. Let’s dig in!