“The movies have never been a big deal to me,” Stephen King once claimed to Rolling Stone about his long-running relationship with Hollywood. “The movies are the movies. They just make them. If they’re good, that’s terrific. If they’re not, they’re not.” This laissez-faire attitude perhaps explains why his works have been transferred to the screen more than any other author still writing today.

Indeed, the horror author has been given the Tinseltown treatment on more than 50 occasions since 1976, with four adaptations arriving this year alone. Indeed, following The Monkey and ahead of The Long Walk and The Running Man remake, fantasy drama The Life of Chuck , starring Tom Hiddleston, is the latest King tale to make the now-familiar leap. Here’s a look at 10 it has to live

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