Any Stephen King novels offered?

Can you imagine if he got his hands on Shawshank? The wind would play chess with Andy's board. Instead of Morgan Freeman as Red we'd have M. Night hamming it up, dropping bombshells of amazing insight one after another. The guards would be people dressed up as monsters trying to keep the prisoners from escaping for their own safety, as the world has become nothing but a violent cesspool, and also profit from their labor. The warden would be some nutjob who read too many comic books, torturing inmates until he found his arch nemesis, Andy, played by Bruce Willis. Yippee-ki-yay, dead people!

King movies are only on rare occasion something not awful or laughably bad. M. Night's recent movies are always awful. I don't see that ending well, but there's a small chance it could be hilarious. I say go for it.

He hasn't. But King liked The Happening (and seems to like Shyamalan in general), so why not.

Of Fox's two summer creepshows, give the edge to The Happening, partly because M. Night Shyamalan really understands fear, partly because this time he's completely let himself go (hence the R rating), and partly because after Lady in the Water he had something to prove. And, happily, Happening plays as a relatively small movie.

- S.K. quoted in Entertainment Weekly

Incidentally, the beginning of The Happening, at least its atmosphere and general concept, is incredibly similar to King's 2006 novel Cell (both are hilariously grotesque and self-conscious), so perhaps that had something to do with King liking it.

Recently, King seems to defer all his stuff to Mick Garris, which is unfortunate. Garris seems a genuinely nice guy but as a director he's a talentless hack. I think he's weary of directors trying to put their own stamp on his work (he's still critical of Kubrick's adaptation of The Shining) so looks to directors like Garris and Darabont who are more willing to toady to the source without adding anything of their own. That would be the risk with Shyamalan.

Yeah and it seems that King is giving his material to Josh Boone as well. 'Cause I hear he's adapting Lisey's Story and The Stand.

But actually after watching The Green Mile, I think M. Night Shyamalan would be a good choice to do a remade adaptation of that film. I think he could also handle a remade adaptation of The Shining.

I guess as a director of a movie based on Stephen King material it would be impossible to *beep* up since King material already sucks so much. Sounds like an idea, maybe even a solution.

He should never, ever adapt any Stephen King novels. Even good directors sometimes can't pull off a King adaptation, so Shyamalan definitely can't.