Stephen King Team Up Novel is Announced

*Originally published as an April Fool's Day article.  Thus, this isn't actually happening (though it totally should.)

Shared universes are all the rage.  Since the Marvel Cinematic Universe took off, everybody has been scrambling to replicate the formula.  DC has two shared universes, with CW's "Arrowverse" on television (which is doing quite well) and the DC Extended Universe in film.  Universal is relaunching its horror franchises in a shared universe and the new "Godzilla" and "King Kong" movies will be taking place in the same world.

However, Stephen King was building a shared universe in his books for decades, long before it was cool.  His books frequently make quick mention to events that transpired in other novels and characters from earlier works have made cameo appearances in later entries.  

It all came to a head in his "Dark Tower" series, which featured multiple nods and links to Stephen King novels and appearances from several characters from earlier stand alone novels.  Those who thought that the series was the be all end all for huge crossovers in the "King-verse" got a big surprise when it was recently announced that Stephen King's upcoming novel was going to feature another assembly of characters spanning several books.

According to official sources, the still unnamed novel is summarized thusly...


When another evil arises to threaten the multiverse, it is up to Roland Deschain to assemble another ka-tet to confront the evil head on.  Mere guns and orizas won't do it, so the gunslinger gathers pyrokinetic Charlie McGee; telekinetic Carrie White; psychics Danny Torrance, John Smith, and Abra Stone; healer John Coffey; and Lois Chasse to ensure the continued safety of existence itself.



It's unclear whether this will span several novels or just be a single (likely door stopper) novel.  Given that it is gathering King's heavy hitters, readers are sure to be getting something epic.

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'Carrie' Returns to Broadway

*Originally published on 10/29/09

An article on CHUD reported that Carrie will be returning to Broadway.

You may remember that I mentioned that the novel had been turned into a musical in the late 80's.  It bombed terribly and closed down after only three days and five performances.

Now, there are two possible options here.  Either they're doing it again to try and mimic The Producers and Springtime for Hitler, using Uwe Boll-esque tactics to still make a profit on a bad show.  There's also the possibility that they think they can put on a show so bad, so terrible that people will feel like they have to go watch it just to see how bad it is.

On the other side, they could be trying to clear Carrie's name and put on a good show to redeem the last one.  The first attempt was plagued with problems so perhaps it was just a matter of luck.  Let's cross our fingers and hope that it's the latter.

A few years ago, I probably would've been dead set against this.  Lately though, musicals have started to grow on me.  When done right, they can be very fun.  Even if the property doesn't seem like it would lend itself to a musical.  I mean, from what I've heard, the Evil Dead musical is really good and a blast to watch.  I wouldn't dismiss this yet.  Maybe the producers can learn from the mistakes of the first one and deliver.  I'm rather curious to see how this all plays out.

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