My dad took me to see The Shining when I was five. It was the 80s. My dad was not exactly irresponsible. By five, my reading comprehension was at a collegiate level -- he figured I could handle it. I didn't. He took me to see a movie about a dad going crazy and killing his son who is only a little older than me. But, after a few nights of worry and nightmares of snow and isolation and cold -- I figured out the solution.
I read 'The Shining'. And since the age of five and a half, I've read everything that Stephen King has published and I could get my hands on -- short stories, novels. Everything...I am a lifelong fan.
Firestarter captured my imagination as a lost 'X-Men' story...a superhero story in the King universe.
And since I read it, I always wanted to see a series from the days after The Shop closed its doors -- one where there's a new Shop, but its directive is to investigate things like the prom night fire in Carrie's hometown...the sudden migration of all those swallows in The Dark Half -- things that happen in the other novels are investigated by a group that slowly unravel the connection between each event and all of the events -- when I read The Dark Tower; and moreover, the novels having actual connections, I was over the moon.
It's the dream project that ain't been made yet.