With IT storming it at the box office, it's easy to forget there was another Stephen King adaptation this year that didn't do anywhere near as well.
The Dark Tower was savaged by critics and didn't exactly draw in the audiences either, so far grossing only $120 million (£89 million) worldwide. But King seems to know the reason why it didn't click.
"The major challenge was to do a film based on a series of books that's really long, about 3,000 pages. The other part of it was the decision to do a PG-13 feature adaptation of books that are extremely violent and deal with violent behaviour in a fairly graphic way," he told Vulture.
"That was something that had to be overcome, although I've gotta say, I thought [screenwriter] Akiva Goldsman did a terrific job in taking a central part of the book and turning it into what I thought was a pretty good movie."
Last month, director Nikolaj Arcel revealed that the planned TV series continuation of The Dark Tower was still in the works and would be "totally canon" with the movie, but King reckons it'll be more of a do-over.
"The TV series they're developing now… we'll see what happens with that. It would be like a complete reboot, so we'll just have to see," he explained.
We'll have to wait and see if The Dark Tower does get a TV series after the movie's failure, but there's no denying that a TV series is certainly more fitted to King's epic books than a 90-minute movie.
