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Publication date. 1982. Apt Pupil (1982) is a novella by Stephen King subtitled "Summer of Corruption", originally published in the 1982 novella collection Different Seasons with a more dramatic bent, rather than the horror fiction for which King is famous. [ 1 ]Apt Pupil consists of 30 chapters, many of which are headed by a month.
40. $8,863,193. Financial analysis of Apt Pupil (1998) including budget, domestic and international box office gross, DVD and Blu-ray sales reports, total earnings and profitability.
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Apt Pupil was published originally in 1982 alongside the rest of Different Seasons. Stephen King wrote Apt Pupil after finishing the first draft of The Shining. There is a nod to The Shining in this story, as well as a character whose name comes from the play that Jack Torrance is writing in The Shining. King’s relentless writing process involves w...
The original attempt to adapt Apt Pupil came in 1987 with Alan Bridges directing and starring the great talents of Nicol Williamson and Rick Schroder. They actually filmed for ten weeks, but a lack of funding placed the film on hold and the project ultimately fell apart. Bryan Singer would later seek to direct the film after reading the book as a c...
This work may be unfilmable. This isn’t King’s most compelling story, but what makes it work (when it does) is being inside the head of the adolescent boy as he falls into darkness. That journey might not ever come across on film. A shame, given the decent casting in this particular effort. Perhaps someone like Michael Fassbendermight take on the r...
Ranked #3,439 globally2974 users have ranked itWins 35% of match-ups2 people have it at #1These are my personal rankings for every King adaptation I’ve written about for this series. At the very end, we will see where my Stephen King taste overlaps with the global consensus. 1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 2. Carrie(1976) 3. The Dead Zone(1983) 4. The Stand(1994) 5. Stephen King’s The Shining(1994) 6. Cat’s Eye(1985) 7. The Running M...
Including those sequences would SURELY have led to the movie getting a NC-17 rating, which is a big handicap for most films. (Of about 240 films rated NC-17, fewer than 25% have kept that rating rather than surrendering or re-editing the film to get an R). You also would have been asking a 15-year-old actor to make a film in which he ...
Aug 27, 1982 · But he is about to meet a different kind of teacher: Mr. Dussander. Todd knows all about Dussander's dark past. The torture. The death. The decades-old manhunt Dussander has escaped to this day. Yet Todd doesn't want to turn him in. Todd wants to know more. Much more. He is about to learn the real meaning of power—and the seductive lure of evil.
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Aug 27, 1982 · A 13-year-old boy who discovers that the true identity of an old man who lives in his area by the name of Arthur Denker is the Nazi war criminal Kurt Dussander. Banker who did some stock portfolio work for Arthur Denker. German war criminal a/k/a The "Blood Fiend of Patin".
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The guy did look a little bit like Albert Einstein, and he did look a little bit like Boris Karloff, but what he looked like more than anything else was one of the seedy old winos that hung around down by the railroad yard. (King, 1982, 111) Influence Character Throughline Synopsis
