okay, this is probably just for me...two stephen king short stories are being made into movies! the last SK short 'story to movie' that i liked was the Shawshank Redemption. abolustely inspired. it's hard to say which was better--the movie or the story. VERY hard. anyway, this stuff looks interesting. especially Ride the Bullet. i loved that story.

* Jonathan Jackson, David Arquette, Barbara Hershey and Erika Christensen have been set to star in RIDING THE BULLET [Stephen King short] for writer/director Mick Garris and Brad Krevoy's Motion Picture Corp. of America. Supernatural thriller takes place on Halloween in 1969, following 21-year-old New England college student Alan Parker. Distraught that his girlfriend has broken up with him, he attempts suicide but fails and then learns that his beloved mother has had a stroke. Hitchhiking through rural Maine to visit her bedside, the young man is picked up by a mysterious driver who carries his own haunting secrets.

Dimension Films has optioned Stephen King's short story 1408 with Matt Greenberg attached to pen the feature adaptation, and Lorenzo di Bonaventura set to produce. Story concerns a successful writer, known for haunted house and graveyard tales, who gets a taste of his own fictional medicine during a frightening stay in room 1408 at the Dolphin Hotel.