Stephen King and Steven Spielberg have yet to collaborate on a movie or TV project, but they're tried to work together on three different occasions.
It's a tragedy that Stephen King and Steven Spielberg have yet to work on a movie together, though the duo had three projects they came close to making. Spielberg's name would never be listed alongside the likes of John Carpenter or Wes Craven as a horror movie master - though he probably should. He showed time and again with the likes of Jaws, Duel or Jurassic Park that he's capable of creating unforgettable horror moments within crowd-pleasing blockbusters. Even E.T.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY Stephen King, on the other hand, has had his work adapted by Carpenter, David Cronenberg, George A. Romero, Tobe Hooper and most of the "masters." While mostly focused on his own prolific novel output, King has penned the screenplays to some of these films too, including Creepshow and 1989's Pet Sematary. While King and Spielberg have always been on good terms, through some quirk of fate, every time they mulled working together, their plans went awry.
The Talisman King co-wrote 1984 fantasy novel The Talisman with Peter Straub, with the story finding a young boy setting off on a quest to save his dying mother by finding the titular crystal. In the EW article, King stated that “Several times [Spielberg] came very close to making it, and there were a lot of discussions about that.
The Haunting Last but not least was the remake of 1963's The Haunting - which got split into different projects. The project started life with Spielberg approaching King about working on a haunted house movie, which evolved into a remake of The Haunting. Sadly, the two couldn't see eye to eye on the film's tone. King wanted to take a more psychological, horror-focused approach while Steven Spielberg requested more crowd-pleasing thrills.
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