As a huge fan of this series, yet believing firmly in my litterary heart of hearts that king is a horrible writer, I too am dismayed at the ruining that will most likely occur if this massive romantic genre tale is brought to film by the likes of jerry bruckheimer or ...shudder...michael Bay.

As far as king adaptations there are MANY! that were good in their own way, but they all have one thing in common, King wasn't directly involved. When I say many, I do mean that - lets go through the list. Misery, Dead Zone, Cujo, Christine, Firestarter, Shawshank Redemption, Shining, Green Mile (I thought it sucked though), Silver Bullet (sucked), Massive Overdrive (sucked!!), Stand By Me, Children of the Corn (classic!), Thinner, Needful Things, Carrie (classic!) The Running Man, Salem's Lot, etc etc... those are just the ones I can remember..

NOW! when you ad the element of King being involved more than just providing the original story, and then letting competent screenwriters do their job you get crap like:
KINGS: The Shining
KINGS: Storm of the Century
KINGS: Hearts in Atlantis
KINGS: Desperation

All showing what King can ruin with the proper amount of money and motivation. He can't write screenplays to save his blind life, so he should stop.

I don't think this will end well, not with the vomit that the studios have been churning out lately...