Part V of EW’s coverage of the six-guns and sorcery tale… with bonus ‘Talisman’ news!
At the center stands his epic The Dark Tower, which binds them all together.
Listen man, Im the kind of writer that doesnt know jack sh about anything, he says.
Im totally intuitive about this.
You dont push them away, you dont say Oh no, that cant be.
Unless… youre making a movie and dont have the screen rights.
Then you have to count on the audience recognizing the covert connections.
There are countless ways his novels thread together, and you canexplore them all on Uncle Steves website.
Is the Shine becoming his catch-all psychic ability?
Does that mean the wallflower-turned-prom-queen in Carrie had a malevolent version of The Shine?
I dont know, man, King says with a laugh.
Its like the guy says inHouse of Cards: You might think so, but I couldnt possibly comment.
Did he just like seeing this devil again?
King shudders: Ineverwant to see that guy.
I wish they had gone more supernatural with that, King says of the movie.
I thought there was a way to do that without feeding into the wholeDark Towerthing.
So therell be flashes back to this figures younger days in the way-back era of the 1990s.
If there are sequels to the movie, its possible he may turn up onscreen.
Father Callahan… King says wistfully.
Id love to see him in there.
But well have to see how the [first] film does.
Before this 1994 novel, the Tower saga was separate from Kings other novels.
An analog would be Westeros and Meereen.
At least, its currently germinating in his and Straubs heads.
I think that hes got some great ideas.
Fans theorize theyre the same kind of monster, but King doesnt go that far.
I would say that they were probably related just because they both came from my head, he says.
But it wasnt a conscious thing to say one was like the other.
Kings response: Laughter.
If youre minds going there, go with God, he says.
I feel like that with most of this stuff.
