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The Real 3D Pet Sematary

March 18, 2010 in Movies, Paranormal, Personal, Weird by Brian Logee

Upon hearing Matthew Greenberg is hired to do a remake of Stephen King’s Pet Sematary The Real 3D Pet Sematary I remembered my first experience of the movie.  It was a truly terrifying movie because of the setting and peripheral events making it a true 3D experience.

onnecticut style farmhouse The Real 3D Pet SemataryI watched Pet Sematary for the first time as a young child at the family’s old farmhouse in Connecticut.  It is one of those scary type of old houses built in the 1800’s.  Complete with secret passageways and even a mud floor basement. It is probably haunted if not the feel would leave one believing every old creek and bump in the night was due to paranormal activity.

It was a late warm summer night when we started the movie.  The window was open to let in a cooling breeze.  The Lights turned off so the only eerie glow in the room was cast from the television.  Strange shadows danced about the room as it flickered.

Just as the movie reaches it’s climatic moment it happened.  Something big moved past the window.  We know it was big because its footsteps thumped in the soft grass.  With each impact the animal huffed.  The kind of huff that is a mix of an exhale and a growl, low, rumbling.

In an instance the gun rack was emptied.  Light flashed about the room from both the overhead lights and the flashlights that each armed occupant now carried. It amazes me how fast all of us moved  both to secure the area and to search for whatever it was outside.

The oddest thing, we never found what it was that moved past the window.  No animal left lurking in the yard and no tracks left in the soft ground outside of the window.

(via /Film)

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Stephen King Planning on Penning Doctor Sleep

December 2, 2009 in Books by Brian Logee

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Stephen King is planning on writing a new book with the working title “Doctor Sleep”

Premise: a 40 year old orderly working at a hospice for the terminally ill helps patients who are about to die pass on to the other side with the aid of the orderly’s mysterious powers.  Sounds interesting and has potential to go someplace.

Would you want to read a Stephen King story with that premise in it?

What if I told you that the 40 year old orderly is actually Danny, the kid from the shinning now grown up and that Stephen King is calling this a sequel.  For me I rolled my eyes, let slip a quiet WTF.

Keep Moving Forward

Thankfully this is only in the early stages and Stephen King is just vetting ideas.

Drop any sequel language and any direct association to the Shining.

I could see King wanting to use Danny to help with the notes and story forming but for the book and audience give the main character a different name and just reference a tragic past experience that led him to his powers / situation.

(via /Film)


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Stephen King Under the Dome TV Adaptation?

November 27, 2009 in Books, Movies by Brian Logee

Under the Dome 197x300 Stephen King Under the Dome TV Adaptation?When word spread about another attempt to adapt a Stephen King novel I cringed.  Images of failed attempts flashed in my mind remembering the real horror of the whole thing was not the movies it was the production.  That said, like many out there I would love to see a successful adaptation and maybe it could work using the series format rather then the movie format.

Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks TV have optioned the book and are looking to set it up as a mini series. (via /Film)

Plot: Under the Dome: A Novel Stephen King Under the Dome TV Adaptation? :  The small town of Chester’s Mill, Main is surrounded by an invisible force field.  The dome is a result of the machinations of the local politician and drug lord who wants an isolated populace to dominate.  Adding to the rapidly deteriorating situation are the ecological complications brought by the dome.  A small but growing group forms to solve the riddle of the dome.

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The Time to Move On

November 9, 2009 in Tribes, Writing by Eric

This entry is part 3 of 11 in the series Follow Your Bliss

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Life is not easy.  From time to time the question arises: “Is it time to move on?”

Out of energy, and the end of our rope, it feels to hard to keep going, and we ask ourselves:

“Should I just give up?”

Well, that depends on what you are thinking about giving up?

  • Should I give up on my dream?  NEVER!
  • Should I give up on my passion?  Not in a million years!
  • Should I give up on following my bliss?  Not for anything!

When we hit a low point, there is often something we do need to give up, but it isn’t any of those things.

Attachments

Often, we are holding on to things so hard we are smothering them.  Our emotional attachments blind us to opportunities before our very eyes.  They allow us to feel slighted by the smallest circumstances.

I consider myself lucky that I never set out to be a “major writer.”  I can’t imagine the pressure to sell books and make everyone like what I am doing.

I write stories for me.  If anyone else likes them, that is a blessing.  I want to tell a good story, not be the next Stephen King.  I can control the quality of my stories, not the whims of the market.  It is hard for me be disappointed by the reception any of my stories gets.

I have some friends who really want to be a top shelf writer, selling hundreds of thousands if not millions of copies.  That is a difficult goal to achieve, and I see their disappointment.

False Hopes

What most people don’t understand is that a false hope is one what you have no power to accomplish.

I would love to sell millions of books, but all I can do is write the best I can, and promote them to the best of my ability.
Almost anything is achievable if we set our mind to it.

Your Turn

Can you think of any other false hope?  What can we do to make our dreams more attainable?

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March 19, 2009 in Podcasts, Project: Shadow Informant Show Notes by Brian Logee

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Remake: Stephen King’s It

March 18, 2009 in Movies by Brian Logee

get your copy of Stephen King's It here and help support the project Warner Brothers hired Dave Kajganich to pen the screenplay adaptation of Stephen King’s It.  A lot of Stephen King fans out there are thrilled that there is another attempt to make It into a movie.  Don’t get your hopes up yet.

  1. Stephen King fans know that his works has a terrible movie adaptation history.
  2. The writer Dave Kajganich doesn’t engender much hope either.  His only other success being the 2007 Invasion of the Bodysnatchers remake which was not well received.

This project is in it’s infancy so who knows if it will survive into the production stage… we’ll have to keep an eye on this one.

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