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Stephen King's Gerald's Game Netflix Adaptation


Anyone looking forward to seeing how Netflix handled this adaptation of Stephen King's novel? According to this article he seems to like it. :)

Stephen King says Gerald’s Game movie is “horrifying, hypnotic and terrific”

16 February 2017 5:22 AM, PST | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »

Back in September of last year it was announced that Netflix had given the go ahead to an adaptation of Stephen King’s 1992 novel Gerald’s Game from director Mike Flanagan (Oculus, Ouija: Origin of Evil), and now King has revealed on Twitter that he’s seen a rough cut of the film, and “it’s gonna freak you out.”

Saw a rough cut of Mike Flanagan's Gerald's Game yesterday. Horrifying, hypnotic, terrific. It's gonna freak you out.

— Stephen King (@StephenKing) February 11, 2017

Gerald’s Game sees “Gerald and Jessie Burlingame head to their summer home on a warm weekday in October for a romantic interlude that involves adult games. After being handcuffed to her bedposts, Jessie tires of her husband’s games, until things take an unexpectedly tragic turn. She’s left handcuffed, trapped and alone as painful memories from her childhood bedevil her. Her only company is a hungry stray dog, »

- Gary Collinson

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I'm sure they'll keep very faithful to the book. Its kinda exciting people are getting back into Stephen king. The stand remake is coming out, so is it It, the mist and Pet cemetery

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