Brilliant Writers of ED WOOD turning the quill loose upon Stephen King's short story, 1408!!!

Hey folks, Harry here with a story that popped up over at Variety that I figured would interest most of you. I know Stephen King adaptations are a dime a dozen, but when you have writers of the sheer quality of Scott Alexander and Larry Karazewski working on that adaptation... well, that's something to top the barn and start crowing about.

I know, I know... you haven't really seen anything from this pair since THE PEOPLE VS LARRY FLYNT and ED WOOD - but I've read their wonderful script for RIPLEY'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT, which takes Ripley and turns him into a globe-trotting adventurer in search for strange believe it or not things. Hope to god that thing gets made. But now these pair are working on Stephen King's 1408. Personally - my favorite Stephen King writing is with his Short Stories. Oh sure, there's nothing quite so lovely as sitting down with 5lbs of pulp and ripping through one of his novels, but there's something absolutely magical about a story that in an economical page count can give you the heebie jeebies. Like, my favorite thing that Edgar Allan Poe wrote was his SHADOW: A PARABLE, just because it's so damn short that it is absolutely stunning that it gives me the creeps that it does. Well, 1408 isn't quite up there with SHADOW: A PARABLE for me, but I'll be damned if reading it under the covers with a flashlight in a darkened room doesn't downright make my neck hairs dance as if upon a hot plate. Just creepy. Having said that, Alexander and Karazewski tend to be slightly comedic writers - that find a satiric riff for their subjects and the story of a paranormal investigator finding a haunted room that just... well, that'd be telling... but this story was flat out fucking scary. Have to say though... I'm dying to read what they do to the script. They're some of the best writers in Hollywood.