The 2002 adaptation Stephen King vowed would be his last: “When you get done, you get done”

The 2002 adaptation Stephen King vowed would be his last: “When you get done, you get done”If Hollywood or Stephen King suddenly decided one day that they were done with adapting his work for the screen, then a massive hole would suddenly appear in the schedule of countless streaming services, studios, and production companies. There were five of them in 2025 alone, which underlines just how much of a one-man production pipeline he’s become in the last half-century. The pair, who’d passed like ships in the night with Poltergeist and The Talisman, missed each other once again with 2002’s three-episode event, Rose Red. The idea came from the legendary director, who “called me up and said, ‘I want to make the scariest ghost story ever made,'” King recalled. Before Red Rose premiered in January 2002, King informed the Los Angeles Times that it would be one of his final horror projects, if not his swansong.