![]() Andy McGee met his late wife Vicky during a college experiment in which they were both injected with a serum designed to enhance psychic abilities. However, the story is actually a two-hander following the titular pyrokinetic child and her father as they run from a clandestine government agency known as the Shop. ![]() When most Constant Readers think about King’s 1980 novel, their minds naturally turn to Charlie McGee. He is the true monster and has created the Boogeyman to hide from the reality that he has killed his own children.ĭavid Keith as Andy McGee in ‘Firestarter’ Even worse, an alternative reading of King’s story implies that the Boogeyman is merely a manifestation of Lester’s own rage. An abusive bigot, he casually mentions assaulting his wife and hints that he would rather his son die than turn out to be what he calls “a sissy.” His story is horrifying, but it’s difficult to feel too much sympathy for the grieving father when he describes sending his young son back to his crib alone to divert the Boogeyman’s attention away from himself. ![]() While Savage’s version is understandably despondent, King’s original Lester is much more unpleasant. Both versions of the character visit a psychiatrist hoping to share the tragic story of their children’s deaths and both versions insist that the child killer is a shadowy monster lurking in darkened closets. The Lester Billings we meet in Rob Savage’s adaptation of The Boogeyman is a far cry from the despicable father haunting the pages of Night Shift. The bulk of these paternal characters appear in early phases of King’s career, but the prolific writer has continued to create complex and conflicted fathers for the past five decades.Īs Father’s Day approaches, let’s celebrate the good, the bad, and the dastardly dads that weave their way through Stephen King’s body of work.ĭavid Dastmalchian as Lester Billings in ‘The Boogeyman’ The newest King adaptation to hit the big screen, Rob Savage’s The Boogeyman, reimagines a story from the author’s first collection Night Shift in which a surly father mourns the deaths of his three young children. Equating writing with therapy, he often seems to be working through issues that underlie his novels and one can often pick out themes and seasons of life peeking through the windows of his work.īefore hitting the bestseller list, King was a young husband and father struggling to make ends meet and the weight of supporting a family frequently appears in his early writing. In addition to his poignant memoir On Writing and a multitude of forwards and afterwards in his Uncle Steve voice, the Master of Horror tends to inject his fiction with characters that bear a striking resemblance to his own persona. Stephen King has always been a self-referential writer. But Rick has a very famous next-door neighbor… Sharon Tate (Robbie).īeware! Spoilers for the work of Stephen King abound. Both are struggling to make it in a Hollywood they don’t recognize anymore. ![]() The two lead characters are Rick Dalton (DiCaprio), former star of a western TV series, and his longtime stunt double Cliff Booth (Pitt). Sony described the film as a story that takes place in Los Angeles in 1969, at the height of hippy Hollywood. Sony Pictures stepped up to acquire the film and it is set for July 26, 2019 release worldwide. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood has been referred to as a Pulp Fiction-like tapestry of stories filled with characters around LA in the summer of 1969, before the Manson murders were committed. The cast also includes Brad Pitt, Al Pacino, Leonardo DiCaprio, Burt Reynolds, Tim Roth, Kurt Russell, Michael Madsen, Timothy Olyphant, Margot Robbie, Damian Lewis, Luke Perry, Emile Hirsch, Dakota Fanning, Scoot McNairy, James Marsden, Clifton Collins Jr, Mike Moh, Keith Jefferson, Nicholas Hammond, Spencer Garrett, Martin Kove, James Remar, Brenda Vaccaro, Nichole Galicia, Mike Moh, Rafal Zawierucha, Lorenza Izzo, Lena Dunham, Austin Butler, Maya Hawke, Craig Stark, Marco Rodriguez, Ramon Franco and Raul Cardona. Rumer Willis, Dreama Walker, Margaret Qualley, Costa Ronin, Damon Herriman, Victoria Pedretti and Madisen Beaty have also joined the film’s cast this week. Manson has previously been played by several actors across film and television, including Steve Railsback, Jeremy Davies, Marcelo Games, Ryan Kiser and Evan Peters. Set against the backdrop of the infamous Manson Family murders of 1969, it’s only natural that Charles Manson will be making an appearance in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and The Wrap reports tonight that Damon Herriman (“Justified,” pictured below) has landed the role of the real-life cult leader.
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