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The Only Stephen King Story Hollywood Considers Impossible To Film
By Jonathan Klotz
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Stephen King is one of the most prolific authors in history, with hundreds of stories under his name, and it seems an equal number of movie and television adaptations. In the last decade, multiple Hollywood producers and writers have attempted to adapt his 2014 novel, Revival. All of them have given up at the same point in the story.
Hollywood turned a story about a killer car and another a killer immortal clown alien into hits, so what is it about Revival that makes it unfilmable? It’s the climax, which takes a turn so wild and bizarre that it can’t be translated to the screen. For a Stephen King story, that says a lot.
Stephen King Takes On Frankenstein
For starters, Revival is the most religious of King’s works. The horror centers around a Methodist minister, Charles Jacobs, and his perfect family with his wife, Patsy. Beloved by the people of Harlow, a small town in Maine (What a twist!), Charles is the perfect man of God…until his family is killed in a car accident and he suddenly turns against God. The novel then jumps years at a time, as we see Charles fall from grace to a sideshow carnival act and then to a faith healer using electricity to perform miracles.
James, a young man in Harlow when Charles arrived, crosses paths with the former holy man at different points, and even willingly accepts one of his “cures” to help curb his heroin addiction. Slowly, James realizes that everyone Charles heals has gone mad. There’s no rational explanation for what’s going on, except that in his grief, Charles has become obsessed with the afterlife. That’s the point where Hollywood writers Josh Boone, who helped adapt The Stand (2020), and Mike Flanagan, a modern Master of Horror himself, couldn’t break the script into something filmable.
Revival is Stephen King’s take on Frankenstein, but even that doesn’t get across how bonkers the third act gets once Charles succeeds in his mad experiment. The best comparison is to H.P. Lovecraft and his take on the Elder Gods, which makes sense that Boone and Flanagan would run into the problem of a gigantic budget to bring the final act of the story to life. Even IT, which includes a giant space turtle, doesn’t reach the level of Revival’s reveal of what happens to humans when we die.
A Story Too Big For Movie Theaters
It’s now been five years since anyone has publicly talked about adapting Revival into a film or mini-series. IT: Welcome to Derry has turned King adaptations into a hot commodity again, with Castle Rock and 11.22.63 finding new legions of fans in the wake of the HBO series’ success. Someone’s going to take another crack at the faith-based supernatural horror, but unless something dramatically changes with Hollywood budgets, they’re also doomed to failure.
Horror is wildly popular in Hollywood, not because of a love for the genre, but because it tends to be cheap to produce. It’s why, when a character hits the public domain, the first thing that happens is a slew of cheap horror movies. It’s a shame that to do Revival justice means a significantly higher budget, but it is also King’s best story in years. Until a Hollywood executive throws superhero levels of money at Mike Flanagan, take the time to grab the novel and give it a read. Once the lightning strikes, you’ll know why it’s one of King’s wildest novels and why two of Hollywood’s best minds couldn’t figure out how to bring it to life.
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SNL opens with another Pete Hegseth press conference
Saturday Night Live returned from a brief hiatus Saturday with a cold open depicting a joint press conference between Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and FBI Director Kash Patel, with “Master of None” creator Aziz Ansari playing the latter.
Colin Jost’s Hegseth hit the familiar beats at the podium — performative machismo, military bravado, and repeated jabs at the secretary’s well-documented drinking habits. This time, Hegseth arrived at the mic hauling an oversized pitcher of scotch, which he assured the room was his one for the day. He then fielded questions from the press about the administration’s handling of U.S. strikes on Iran, dismissing each reporter with the particular brand of smug confidence that has become central to Jost’s portrayal of the character.
Ansari’s Patel proved to be the sketch’s standout, arriving to defend his tenure at the FBI and proceeding to do so poorly. The bit’s centerpiece involved Patel simultaneously denying and admitting that he had locked himself out of his work email for 36 hours after forgetting he had changed his password to “kashmeoutside69.”
Funnily enough, Patel was reportedly locked out of his FBI email in real life and believed, at least momentarily, that he was being fired. As the sketch demonstrated, the distance between SNL’s Cold Open and the actual news cycle has rarely felt smaller.
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NYT Connections Sports Edition today: Hints and answers for May 3, 2026
Today’s Connections: Sports Edition will require some knowledge of popular U.S. sports and pop culture.
As we’ve shared in previous hints stories, this is a version of the popular New York Times word game that seeks to test the knowledge of sports fans.
Like the original Connections, the game is all about finding the “common threads between words.” And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier — so we’ve served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.
If you just want to be told today’s puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for the latest Connections solution. But if you’d rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.
What is Connections: Sports Edition?
The NYT‘s latest daily word game has launched in association with The Athletic, the New York Times property that provides the publication’s sports coverage. The sports Connections can be played on both web browsers and mobile devices and require players to group four words that share something in common.
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Each puzzle features 16 words, and each grouping of words is split into four categories. These sets could comprise anything from book titles, software, country names, etc. Even though multiple words will seem like they fit together, there’s only one correct answer.
If a player gets all four words in a set correct, those words are removed from the board. Guess wrong and it counts as a mistake — players get up to four mistakes before the game ends.
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Players can also rearrange and shuffle the board to make spotting connections easier. Additionally, each group is color-coded with yellow being the easiest, followed by green, blue, and purple. Like Wordle, you can share the results with your friends on social media.
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Here’s a hint for today’s Connections: Sports Edition categories
Want a hint about the categories without being told the categories? Then give these a try:
Here are today’s Connections: Sports Edition categories
Need a little extra help? Today’s connections fall into the following categories:
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Yellow: In Good Shape
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Green: Current NFL Head Coaches
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Blue: Famous Sports “Curses”
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Purple: Starts of Big Ten Names
Looking for Wordle today? Here’s the answer to today’s Wordle.
Ready for the answers? This is your last chance to turn back and solve today’s puzzle before we reveal the solutions.
Drumroll, please!
The solution to today’s Connections: Sports Edition #586 is…
What is the answer to Connections: Sports Edition today?
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In Good Shape: AGIL, ATHLETIC, FIT, STRONG
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Current NFL Head Coaches: COEN, GLENN, REID, RYANS
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Famous Sports “Curses”: BAMBINO, BILLY GOAT, MADDEN, SI COVER
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Starts of Big Ten Names: BOIL, BUCK, CORN, HAWK
Don’t feel down if you didn’t manage to guess it this time. There will be new sports Connections for you to stretch your brain with tomorrow, and we’ll be back again to guide you with more helpful hints.
Are you also playing NYT Strands? See hints and answers for today’s Strands.
If you’re looking for more puzzles, Mashable’s got games now! Check out our games hub for Mahjong, Sudoku, free crossword, and more.
Not the day you’re after? Here’s the solution to yesterday’s Connections.
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The DJI Mini 5 Pro drone is $500 off right now at Amazon — save on this content creator favorite
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What’s going to happen to the drone market in 2026? Due to legislative pressure on DJI imports in the U.S., there is so much uncertainty at the moment. We expected stock issues by now, but we’re actually seeing strong discounts on some of the best drones in the DJI range.
The DJI Mini 5 Pro Fly More Combo is on sale for $1,099 at Amazon. That’s $500 off and close to the record-low price.
The DJI Mini 5 Pro offers a huge 1-inch CMOS sensor, so whether you’re shooting 50MP stills or 4K/120fps slow-motion, the dynamic range more than delivers. The DJI Mini 5 Pro also makes use of forward-facing LiDAR that powers the new Nightscape Omnidirectional Sensing, meaning it can dodge branches, power lines, and buildings even when you don’t have eyes on your drone.
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