Starring Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins, this modern classic was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and is among the most beloved films of all time. Originally published in 1982 in the collection Different Seasons (alongside “The Body,” “Apt Pupil,” and “The Breathing Method”), it was made into the film The Shawshank Redemption in 1994. Suspenseful, mysterious, and heart-wrenching, this iconic King novella, populated by a cast of unforgettable characters, is about a fiercely compelling convict named Andy Dufresne who is seeking his ultimate revenge. That perspective on the Friday The 13th franchise is definitely one that I am personally in full alignment with, and, frankly, that series of movies would be benefitted greatly by expanding on an idea that Stephen King personally pitched last summer.#1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King’s beloved novella, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption-the basis for the Best Picture Academy Award–nominee The Shawshank Redemption-about an unjustly imprisoned convict who seeks a strangely satisfying revenge, is now available for the first time as a standalone book.Ī mesmerizing tale of unjust imprisonment and offbeat escape, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption is one of Stephen King’s most beloved and iconic stories, and it helped make Castle Rock a place readers would return to over and over again. You wanted to see them killed with arrows and buzz saws and chainsaws, and god knows what. I think that in a way the Friday The 13th movies were almost like snuff movies you didn’t go to see the campers at Crystal Lake get away. In other words, yes, I’m a horror writer, I won’t disagree with that, but I really want to do is to engage your positive emotions as much as I can so when terrible things happen you don’t want to see somebody’s head come off. What I would like for readers, for you, Stephen, to feel when they read one of my books, is I would like you to fall in love with the characters and want the best in the world for them. Each book that King writes invites you into the life of its protagonists and gets you emotionally invested in their circumstances, and that way when things go terribly, terribly wrong you fully empathize with them and feel their fear. There is no denying that Stephen King is responsible for some of the most iconic horrific moments in literature – from Carrie White using her telekinetic powers to kill her classmates in Carrie, or Pennywise haunting the members of The Losers Club in IT – but what makes those scenes more memorable than the descriptions of carnage and terrors is the way readers feel about the author’s characters. That book also includes “The Body,” which was turned into the Rob Reiner movie Stand By Me, and it’s funny because it’s pretty easy to imagine the same woman the author encountered also refusing to believe that his work inspired that coming-of-age classic. Of course, Stephen King did in fact write the novella that The Shawshank Redemption is based on – titled “Rita Hayworth And Shawshank Redemption,” and included in the 1982 collection Different Seasons. But I like uplifting things, like that movie Shawshank Redemption.’ And I said, ‘I wrote that!’ And she said, ‘No you didn’t. She pointed at me, she said, ‘I know who you are! You’re Stephen King! You write all of those horrible things. I was in a supermarket down here in Florida, and I came around the corner and there was a woman coming the other way. Dismissing the idea, King explained that the horror in his books has never really stemmed directly from scenes of violence and blood, and told a story highlighting some people’s inability to see him as anything other than “that guy.” He said, Currently promoting his new novel, Later, Stephen King was recently a guest on the BBC news show HARDtalk, and host Stephen Sackur at one point asked the author if he now feels the need to “push the envelope” in his writing given the availability of horrific material all over the internet.
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