Adapting King: Volume 2

By Joseph Maddrey

386 pages / Expanded Edition Published 2026

PART OF A TRILOGY

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“Outlander! Outlander!” For more than fifty years, Stephen King’s stories have inspired countless film and television adaptations. This second volume in a multi-book series explores the cinematic journeys of his Night Shift anthology, tracing each project featured from acquisition to finished film.

Drawing on original research and new interviews with key filmmakers, author Joseph Maddrey offers fans a fascinating look at the collaborative process behind these adaptations. In researching this series, Maddrey consulted dozens of public and private libraries and archives, including the Stephen E. King Archive in Bangor, Maine. His discoveries will have “constant readers” seeing these adaptations in a whole new light.

"I've read it cover to cover. It's extraordinary! [...] If only I had this back in the day." - John Esposito, screenwriter of Stephen King's Graveyard Shift