King books appearing in Movies

[stroppygoblin]

Just watched Interstellar at the Sydney iMax (biggest in the world apparently). In the early part of the film is a couple of shots of a large bookcase, the most prominent book is a copy of the original edition of "The Stand"!

a quick google unearthed this...

The mother of all modern post-apocalyptic adventures, King’s epic masterpiece depicts an America ravaged by a deadly plague, where the survivors have to pick a side in that eternal struggle between good and evil. Based on the dust jacket that’s glimpsed briefly onscreen, it appears that Murph scored a copy of The Stand’s long out-of-print first edition, which is probably valuable enough in her future to pay for a fleet of crop dusters.

Be interesting to know if it's actually a 1st edition or not.

Anyone got any other non-King related movies where one of his books shows up?

[Bev Vincent]

Or TV shows -- On Lost, the Others were reading Carrie at their book club.

[mae]

Recently and pretty prominently in You Can't Kill Stephen King and Stuck in Love.

[Ricky]

The TV series Revolution showed a few SK books (and also made numerous references to his work).

[Tommy]

Not sure if it is worth watching but I do remember at the beginning of William Friedkin's movie The Guardian that a woman is packing her suitcase and puts a hardback copy of It on top of her clothes before she shuts it

[WeDealInLead]

Futurama episode with gigantic flying brains.

[Tommy]

If we are doing TV shows as well, The Shining was featured on an episode of Friends

[racerx45]

Great topic!

[zelig]

Here's one I posted some time back: Orange is the New Black (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?7050-Random-Comments-Stream-of-Consciousness-Thread&p=865312&viewfull=1#post865312)

[Joe315]

Futurama episode with gigantic flying brains.

That would be "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid".

[Girlystevedave]

In the beginning of Donnie Darko, the mom is reading IT .

[Girlystevedave]

If we are doing TV shows as well, The Shining was featured on an episode of Friends

That's right! Joey kept it in the freezer to feel safe. :lol:

[Girlystevedave]

Great topic!


I agree. :)

[Tommy]

Thought of a few more, There is a very bad Lou Diamond Phillips movie called Ambition where he plays a writer and in one scene set in a bookstore he mocks King when the store owner hands him a copy of The Stand Uncut and Complete Edition

I seem to remember an episode of Mad About You where Helen Hunt and Paul Reiser are having a big fight and she starts separating out her books from their combined collection and asks him if the copy of Cujo she is holding is hers or his

[Bev Vincent]

A copy of The Tommyknockers is seen on Duke's shelf on Haven.

[surly]

it's been a while since i've seen it, but i'm pretty sure MISERY was in When Harry Met Sally.

[Tommy]

it's been a while since i've seen it, but i'm pretty sure MISERY was in When Harry Met Sally.

Yes! Thank you so much, I was racking my brain trying to remember what actor and in what film I had seen that :cool:

[NeedfulKings]

Recently and pretty prominently in You Can't Kill Stephen King and Stuck in Love.

Stuck in Love had many excellent King references to include books (including collectible editions), bookcases, posters, and a surprise phone call. The movie is good and the director Josh Boone is working on The Stand - he's a fan.

[Merlin1958]

If we are doing TV shows as well, The Shining was featured on an episode of Friends

Yes, and it ended up in the freezer!!! LOL LOL

[Scoogs]

Season 4 episode of The Walking Dead.
I forget the episode name, but it was the second half of the season when Carl and Rick are in the house.
Carl picks a bedroom with several King books on the shelf.

[Tommy]

In Terror at Tenkiller (one of the worst horror films ever made) there is a scene with a girl reading a paperback copy of The Stand '78

The only reason I know of this film is because the guys at Rifftrax did a commentary for it

[Roseannebarr]

In Terror at Tenkiller (one of the worst horror films ever made) there is a scene with a girl reading a paperback copy of The Stand '78

The only reason I know of this film is because the guys at Rifftrax did a commentary for it

On Sons of Anarchy, Bobby is in the cabin reading Stephen Kings #1 Best Seller

Cycle Zombies.

the same episode that Stephen king is in. My niece pulled a picture of the book off the internet and printed me a cover of the book! She then designed the full book cover with a picture of SK on one side and a picture of him and I on the other. She did an awesome job.

[stroppygoblin]

Pron movie starring Bree Olson as a secretary - A copy of "Wolves of the Calla" can clearly be seen on the bookcase in the background.

I'm not sure what reflects worse on my character, the fact that I have watched the movie or the fact that the thing that I noticed most was the Stephen King book!

[racerx45]

Pron movie starring Bree Olson as a secretary - A copy of "Wolves of the Calla" can clearly be seen on the bookcase in the background.

I'm not sure what reflects worse on my character, the fact that I have watched the movie or the fact that the thing that I noticed most was the Stephen King book!

:rock:

[Jud Crandall]

There's a copy of Everything's Eventual in Gale's apartment in Breaking Bad.

[Mr. Rabbit Trick]

Pron movie starring Bree Olson as a secretary - A copy of "Wolves of the Calla" can clearly be seen on the bookcase in the background.

I'm not sure what reflects worse on my character, the fact that I have watched the movie or the fact that the thing that I noticed most was the Stephen King book!

That's a good enough reason to watch the movie :unsure:

[Randall Flagg]

Can someone just send me the "Money Shot" part? Not the porn, just the King book shot.

[webstar1000]

Can someone just send me the "Money Shot" part? Not the porn, just the King book shot.

I just spit out my beer when I read this RF. Hahahaha

[stroppygoblin]

Can someone just send me the "Money Shot" part? Not the porn, just the King book shot.

I'll have to watch it again, but it may be possible to provide both in the same image......

[Bev Vincent]

In a second season episode of The X-Files, Mulder is going through a library card catalog. The first title he flips past is Four Past Midnight. This is immediately after toads rain from the skies.

[stroppygoblin]

Bev already mentioned Carrie being read by the book club in Lost, but in the episode "A tale of two cities" you can also see a copy of Hearts In Atlantis on Jack's office bookshelf.

[Ari_Racing]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B2xqDhYCMAEoMIw.png

[Tommy]

A money shot for RF

http://i1283.photobucket.com/albums/a550/tommygblake/vlcsnap-2014-11-19-05h53m57s68_zps481a4a63.png (http://s1283.photobucket.com/user/tommygblake/media/vlcsnap-2014-11-19-05h53m57s68_zps481a4a63.png.html)

http://i1283.photobucket.com/albums/a550/tommygblake/vlcsnap-2014-11-19-05h54m19s74_zps6c5c0110.png (http://s1283.photobucket.com/user/tommygblake/media/vlcsnap-2014-11-19-05h54m19s74_zps6c5c0110.png.html)

http://i1283.photobucket.com/albums/a550/tommygblake/vlcsnap-2014-11-19-05h54m47s224_zpsbf29cc7b.png (http://s1283.photobucket.com/user/tommygblake/media/vlcsnap-2014-11-19-05h54m47s224_zpsbf29cc7b.png.html)

From Terror at Tenkiller (1986)

[Tommy]

Another money shot, this one is really brief but probably my favorite part of the whole movie, From The Guardian (1990)

http://i1283.photobucket.com/albums/a550/tommygblake/vlcsnap-2014-11-19-10h53m30s99_zpsd77f04f6.png (http://s1283.photobucket.com/user/tommygblake/media/vlcsnap-2014-11-19-10h53m30s99_zpsd77f04f6.png.html)

http://i1283.photobucket.com/albums/a550/tommygblake/vlcsnap-2014-11-19-10h53m44s22_zpseaa9e1a2.png (http://s1283.photobucket.com/user/tommygblake/media/vlcsnap-2014-11-19-10h53m44s22_zpseaa9e1a2.png.html)

[Randall Flagg]

Just viewed "Interstellar" today. Loved that books played a part in the movie, and that King's Doubleday "The Stand" also played a small part.

[Mr. Rabbit Trick]

Just viewed "Interstellar" today. Loved that books played a part in the movie, and that King's Doubleday "The Stand" also played a small part.

I frame searched the DVD for each book in the library. Quite a lot of goodies, but The Stand was the best.

[Tommy]

Just viewed "Interstellar" today. Loved that books played a part in the movie, and that King's Doubleday "The Stand" also played a small part.

It could be foreshadowing for McConaughey since he may (I hope) play Randall Flagg in the new version

[Sir_Boomme]

not sure which book it is.. but definitely a King book in the Library/Stan Lee / fight scene of spiderman....
can see it at the 3:13 mark.
might be Regulators???


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vACyYOM91LM

[Br!an]

not sure which book it is.. but definitely a King book in the Library/Stan Lee / fight scene of spiderman....
can see it at the 3:13 mark.
might be Regulators???


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vACyYOM91LM

Desperation

[Sir_Boomme]

not sure which book it is.. but definitely a King book in the Library/Stan Lee / fight scene of spiderman....
can see it at the 3:13 mark.
might be Regulators???


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vACyYOM91LM

Desperation

which would fit since this is one of spidey's most desperate moments in the movie

[Merlin1958]

IDK It really looks like, Regulators to me.

[Randall Flagg]

4 minute clip. Please give the time marker for the SK book.

[stroppygoblin]

Definitely Desperation...

http://c2.bibtopia.com/h/065/787/564787065.0.m.jpg

Regulators spine looks completely different (and the big give away is that it says "Richard Bachman" :evil::

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v670/RareBookCellar/21/31541.jpg

[stroppygoblin]

4 minute clip. Please give the time marker for the SK book.

3:13 - Terry mentioned it in his post above

http://i938.photobucket.com/albums/ad223/stroppygoblin/ScreenShot2014-11-26at232739_zpsa2c6df79.png (http://s938.photobucket.com/user/stroppygoblin/media/ScreenShot2014-11-26at232739_zpsa2c6df79.png.html)

[Randall Flagg]

4 minute clip. Please give the time marker for the SK book.

3:13 - Terry mentioned it in his post above

http://i938.photobucket.com/albums/ad223/stroppygoblin/ScreenShot2014-11-26at232739_zpsa2c6df79.png (http://s938.photobucket.com/user/stroppygoblin/media/ScreenShot2014-11-26at232739_zpsa2c6df79.png.html)
Spanked.

[Merlin1958]

What can I say? I was confused!! LOL

[mae]

http://grimm.wikia.com/wiki/Nameless

The phone then rings and Hank tells Vicky to put it on speaker. A deep voice says "play my game" and Hank asks what the person wants but they just repeat themselves. Hank notices the call is coming from inside the building and Dominick says it's coming from Brody's office. Wu, Nick, and Hank quickly head to Brody's office, but they find no one in there anymore. Hank tells Wu to get the surveillance while he and Nick look around. Nick finds Brody's ID cut in half as well as the title page for Alice in Wonderland with "what's" written on it, the title page for A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court with "my" written on it, and the title page for Rage with "name?" written on it.

[Lurker]

The Arrow 1/27/16
http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/ac54/ICONfan/Arrow%20Video%20-%20A.W.O.L._zpsre505fpj.jpg

[stroppygoblin]

Can someone just send me the "Money Shot" part? Not the porn, just the King book shot.

I'll have to watch it again, but it may be possible to provide both in the same image......

I'd forgotten to do this, but here it is now. I could have got a clearer shot, but not sure I could post it here!

http://i938.photobucket.com/albums/ad223/stroppygoblin/other/fdbdde0f-847b-47ba-aaf8-cb9f416de7a4_zps3s7awmwy.png (http://s938.photobucket.com/user/stroppygoblin/media/other/fdbdde0f-847b-47ba-aaf8-cb9f416de7a4_zps3s7awmwy.png.html)

[Bunyip]

Crikey!

[FennyBate]

The Viking hardcover of 'It' is on the bedhead bookshelf at the start of the 'The Hitchhiker' segment of 'Creepshow 2'.

[Aronstg]

Season 4 Episode 11 of Orange is the New Black. One of the guards is reading 'IT'

[Beverly Marsh]

In the movie Hush(a good one by the way!)there are a couple on the main characters shelf. Can't remember which ones though. Helpful huh :evil:

[Lurker]

This Is Us 10/18/16

http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/ac54/ICONfan/Watch%20This%20Is%20Us%20The%20Pool%20Episode%20-%20NBC.com%20-3_zpsrpcw1wz3.jpg


DAMN. I still can't get the spoil to work where I would have put in which book she's reading...
Any ideas on why spoiler won't work?

[stroppygoblin]

This Is Us 10/18/16

http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/ac54/ICONfan/Watch%20This%20Is%20Us%20The%20Pool%20Episode%20-%20NBC.com%20-3_zpsrpcw1wz3.jpg


DAMN. I still can't get the spoil to work where I would have put in which book she's reading...
Any ideas on why spoiler won't work?

There are actually 2 spoiler tags. The icon marked with 'spoiler' text needs you to enter a title. Either highlight the text you want in the spoiler and press the icon, which will prompt you to add a title, or press the icon then enter the title and finally enter your text to hide. Like this:


the book is Misery


The other spoiler tag is the one that looks like a radiation symbol. It works the same way but without the additional title:


The book is Misery

[NeedfulKings]

Mentioned earlier in this post. Here is a screenshot from Stuck In Love showing one of the main actors with a bookshelf loaded with King - including a somewhat pricey CD edition of IT.

http://www.ka-tet-corp.com/portal2.0/files/posted_images/41/stuckinlove_stephenking.jpg

[Machine's Way]

I wish I had something to contribute to this thread right now, but I dont. This is a great topic Id love to see more pics. I always look at bookshelves in movies to see what is on there, and of course looking for King.

[herbertwest]

Mentioned earlier in this post. Here is a screenshot from Stuck In Love showing one of the main actors with a bookshelf loaded with King - including a somewhat pricey CD edition of IT.

http://www.ka-tet-corp.com/portal2.0/files/posted_images/41/stuckinlove_stephenking.jpg

And I believe that while he is on the phone just now, it's no less than Steve himself doing an audio cameo

[Bev Vincent]

Mentioned earlier in this post. Here is a screenshot from Stuck In Love showing one of the main actors with a bookshelf loaded with King - including a somewhat pricey CD edition of IT.

http://www.ka-tet-corp.com/portal2.0/files/posted_images/41/stuckinlove_stephenking.jpg

And I believe that while he is on the phone just now, it's no less than Steve himself doing an audio cameo

According to IMDB it is.

[Lurker]

Misery


Ah ha! Well, the box that says spoiler won't work, but the radiation symbol one does. Thank you!

I don't have a screenshot yet, but actually the first 3 or 4 minutes of a show called The Goldbergs was great. (I haven't watched the whole show - may be more in it). A friend gave me a heads up (I don't watch it) and well, that library shelf...

[Br!an]

:orely:


Misery


Ah ha! Well, the box that says spoiler won't work, but the radiation symbol one does. Thank you!

I don't have a screenshot yet, but actually the first 3 or 4 minutes of a show called The Goldbergs was great. (I haven't watched the whole show - may be more in it). A friend gave me a heads up (I don't watch it) and well, that library shelf...

[mae]

It sure does. This spoiler option is much preferred, in my view.

[skyofcrack]

This week's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D has a prisoner reading a Spanish version of an unknown King book.

http://www.thedarktower.org/gallery/data/500/medium/Marvels_Agents_of_S_H_I_E_L_D_S04E05_720p_HDTV_x26 4_044081_2016-10-27-20-19-51_.JPG
http://www.thedarktower.org/gallery/data/500/medium/Marvels_Agents_of_S_H_I_E_L_D_S04E05_720p_HDTV_x26 4_058785_2016-10-27-20-30-29_.JPG

[Lurker]

Finally a shot from that Goldberg's show.

http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/ac54/ICONfan/The%20Goldbergs_zpsoxnjohas.png

[Tommy]

I don't think anyone has mentioned it yet but I seem to recall a mass market paperback of Night Shift featured in the beginning of Children of the Corn.

[Ari_Racing]

This week's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D has a prisoner reading a Spanish version of an unknown King book.

http://www.thedarktower.org/gallery/data/500/medium/Marvels_Agents_of_S_H_I_E_L_D_S04E05_720p_HDTV_x26 4_044081_2016-10-27-20-19-51_.JPG
http://www.thedarktower.org/gallery/data/500/medium/Marvels_Agents_of_S_H_I_E_L_D_S04E05_720p_HDTV_x26 4_058785_2016-10-27-20-30-29_.JPG

It's Pet Sematary.

[Tommy]

http://i1283.photobucket.com/albums/a550/tommygblake/HUSH2016_zpsvmjskvng.png

There's another shot of what could be Doctor Sleep but it's not in focus, can't be sure.

[needfulthings]

The King book in the foreground is Mr Mercedes & the one behind the wine glass looks like Revival .

[Tommy]

And you can also make out Under the Dome as well, beside Revival.

[Bev Vincent]

Director Mike Flanagan is a huge King fan -- he directed Gerald's Game. I'll have an interview with him in the next issue of Cemetery Dance.

[Tommy]

Director Mike Flanagan is a huge King fan -- he directed Gerald's Game. I'll have an interview with him in the next issue of Cemetery Dance.

After seeing Oculus, Ouija: Origin of Evil and now Hush, I am extremely excited to see Gerald's Game. I look forward to your interview.

[Ricky]

Finally a shot from that Goldberg's show.

http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/ac54/ICONfan/The%20Goldbergs_zpsoxnjohas.png

:drool:

If time travel was possible, I'd go back to all King's releases and buy some crisp first editions.

Also, the hardcover of Dreamcatcher made an appearance on Brick's library cart on The Middle last night.

[Randall Flagg]

Might be an Under The Dome in that pic...

[ur2ndbiggestfan]

In the movie TRUTH (2015), Topher Grace's character is reading the Doubleday hardcover of THE STAND in an airplane just before Robert Redford sits down next to him.

[ur2ndbiggestfan]

In AGENTS OF SHIELD season 4, episode 5, LOCKUP, what King book is the prisoner reading in his cell? The title looks something like CEMETERY ANIMALS, but that doesn't make any sense, and I don't recognize the paperback. Did they just make up a mock-up book?

[ICry4Oy]

In AGENTS OF SHIELD season 4, episode 5, LOCKUP, what King book is the prisoner reading in his cell? The title looks something like CEMETERY ANIMALS, but that doesn't make any sense, and I don't recognize the paperback. Did they just make up a mock-up book?


From IMDB:



When Robbie enters Santino Noguera's cell, Santino is reading a Spanish language copy of Stephen King's 'Pet Sematary'http://www.thedarktower.org/gallery/data/500/9788401499845-us-300.jpg

[ur2ndbiggestfan]

That's it! Thanks.

[Ari_Racing]

That's the Spanish paperback edition.

[Lurker]

I think it is interesting that on the news most people remotely broadcasting sit in front of their bookcases. I didn't get her name but she is the lawyer for the correction officers. On MSNBC today.


https://i.ibb.co/VxVy5jg/The-Stand-MSNBC.jpg

[M_O_O_N]

I'm always checking out the bookshelves, too. Hoping to see a copy of the Necronomicon or such. :wtf:

[mae]

She's also got a nice Murakami collection of first editions!

[ur2ndbiggestfan]

On a bookshelf giveaway prize package including ten novels today on The Price Is Right was a copy of THE INSTITUTE.

NOT that I watch this show 5 days a week!

[amd013]

I noticed an ESPN reporter had a whole shelf of King books. (I think it was during the draft). Can't remember her name.

[mae]

Insomnia hardcovers are shown in the opening at the bookstore in Netflix's Fear Street: 1994.

[Kongo]

Insomnia hardcovers are shown in the opening at the bookstore in Netflix's Fear Street: 1994.

In the second Fear Street movie, a copy of Carrie can be seen under a bed at camp. Two characters even discuss the pig blood scene, which one of the girls is trying to replicate with paint out of revenge

[herbertwest]

They even mention Stephen King a few times

[Ari_Racing]

I dont know if it has been mentioned before but a copy of IT is present and even read in Atypical. Can't remember which episode though.

[Ricky]

There's a prison guard reading a US hardcover copy of The Institute in an episode of Bosch (not sure what episode, though. I just happened to walk by while it was on).

[Bev Vincent]

There's a prison guard reading a US hardcover copy of The Institute in an episode of Bosch (not sure what episode, though. I just happened to walk by while it was on).

It's the desk sergeant (Mankiewicz) -- in the final episode.

[Bev Vincent]

A few SK paperbacks show up on a bookshelf a little over halfway through the first episode of Archive 81.

[Phalucha]

Loved Archive 81!

[Iwritecode]

A few SK paperbacks show up on a bookshelf a little over halfway through the first episode of Archive 81.

I noticed that but couldn't find this thread to mention it. :thumbsup:

[Iwritecode]

I guess to add to this thread, a King book showed up on the shelves of a bookstore in Fear Street Part One: 1994.

[Bev Vincent]

There's a huge book cameo in the final episode of S4 of Stranger Things. Very Duffer-esque.

[Merlin1958]

There's a huge book cameo in the final episode of S4 of Stranger Things. Very Duffer-esque.

Seems like that was quite a nod. Inspirational even?

[Lurker]

The Watchful Eye (feb. 6 2023) - desk clerk reading The Shining.
Well, it is a show about a haunted hotel.

[ur2ndbiggestfan]

In AIRPLANE II: The Sequel, a copy of this is in the paperback rack in the airport's (or moonport's) gift shop, just before Sony Bono buys the second time bomb from the left:

https://i.imgur.com/jVGDlhn.jpg