![]() Phillips also made the cut because a talking corpse taunting a movie’s main character was also used in John Landis’s 1981 horror-comedy classic An American Werewolf in London, when Griffin Dunne haunts his best friend, David Naughton’s protagonist character, and he didn’t want to seem redundant. CHRISTINE 2 REVENGE FULL MOVIE MOVIEPhillips, looking to distinguish his script from the book-as well as preemptively cut costs for what would inevitably be an expensive corpse effect-chose to cut Roland from the movie and instead have LeBay’s younger brother George sell Christine to Arnie. LeBay, who appears to mild-mannered nerd Arnie in the backseat of the car as a rotting corpse taunting the car’s new owner. In King’s book, Christine is seemingly haunted by her former owner, Roland D. HORROR HITS AT THE TIME FORCED CHANGES TO THE SCRIPT. Lester.)Ĭarpenter’s screenwriter on his version of Firestarter was Bill Phillips, who jumped ship once Carpenter was let go and joined up as the screenwriter on Christine once Kobritz hired Carpenter. ( Firestarter was eventually released in 1984 and directed by Mark L. ![]() He was originally supposed to direct the adaptation of Firestarter, but was fired from the project because of the poor performance of The Thing. CARPENTER AND THE SCREENWRITER WERE STEPHEN KING VETERANS.Ĭhristine wasn’t Carpenter’s first foray into adapting the twisted mind of Stephen King. CHRISTINE 2 REVENGE FULL MOVIE TVThe pair previously worked together on Carpenter’s 1978 TV movie Someone’s Watching Me! and Carpenter agreed to take on the project because he wanted to jump immediately into another movie after his first high-profile box office flop. Kobritz approached John Carpenter after the critical and financial failure of his 1982 adaptation of The Thing, which is now widely regarded as one of the filmmaker’s best. JOHN CARPENTER SIGNED ON SIMPLY BECAUSE HE WANTED A JOB. When he passed on that, King sent over the manuscript for Christine, which Kobritz optioned because he identified with how it inverted "America's obsession with the motorcar." 2. King initially sent the producer the manuscript for Cujo, which Kobritz didn’t like (the book would eventually be published in 1981 with a movie adaptation also in 1983). Producer Richard Kobritz helped adapt Stephen King’s novel Salem’s Lot as a TV miniseries in 1979, and the author asked Kobritz whether he’d be up for adapting any more of his works. STEPHEN KING PITCHED THE MOVIE TO GET MADE. Here are some facts about Christine, which turns 35 this year. ![]() While Christine isn’t the most high-profile release in either King or Carpenter’s careers, the movie about an evil 1958 Plymouth Fury that possesses its owner remains a beloved cult classic that still spins the wheels of horror fans to this day. Start your engines for the scariest Stephen King adaptation courtesy of the master of horror, John Carpenter. ![]()
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