Yes, there are certain guidelines that must be followed but he already knows what those are so does keep it in mind while he's writing a screenplay. He would have continued with Golden Years and Kingdom Hospital had they been picked up for another season and had a rough idea of where it would go but hadn't written the actual screenplays for those. He knew the length of Storm of the Century would require it to be a 3-part miniseries and the others TV series and that's how his film agent pitched them. It was then up to the studios/networks to decide if that would work for them.
Which film/tv adaptations were initiated by Stephen himself?
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Huh. Coulda sworn it was Poltergeist. Oh well. I'm gettin' old.........
It's too bad Spielberg doesn't do a lot of interviews or audiocommentaries and things like that, because I don't think he ever told where the idea for Poltergeist came from. It actually IS his story. The majority of his films are written by others, but even though he didn't direct it (though it is said he more or less co-directed with Hooper), Poltergeist is one of a few he came up with the story for.
I always regret Spielberg didn't do any more horror/suspense after Poltergeist. When you look at Duel, Jaws and Poltergeist and even the little known Something Evil - each one of those is superb.
So it's more like when he gets the idea, just like with a novel, he knows the length that is required himself and then the studios say yes or no.
You could say that, apart from Rose Red which was already going, everything based on an original screenplay (plus the adaptation of Von Trier's The Kingdom) was his initiation then? He gets an idea, decides if it will be a book or a screenplay, and then it is up to the agents to make the deals.
Looked it up and found the name of the movie that Spielberg did after the Rose Red project didn't get done with him and Steve. It was Monster House (2006). The description of that on imdb.com is: Three teens discover that their neighbor's house is really a living, breathing, scary monster.Said movie with Spielberg ended up being the original Poltergeist.
Not always, but yes that's usually how it works.
That is really cool. I'm picky with animation for family audiences, but I LOVED Monster House and felt it was very King-esque. And then the director of Monster House, Gil Kenan did the Poltergeist remake, which personally I like, but it wasn't generally received so well, I think.
Over the course of time, I predict every sentence King writes in every novel will eventually get turned into a feature film or TV series. 
And in that same vein, he frequently jokes that there will come a day when people will pay more for his books that he hasn't signed.Over the course of time, I predict every sentence King writes in every novel will eventually get turned into a feature film or TV series.
I wonder if the Spielberg project with Stephen was always gonna be animation, because usually that's not what Stephen does. Although Stephen also worked on the Ghosts video with Michael Jackson and that's normally not what he does either, so I guess he takes whatever interests him regardless of what medium it is in.
And in that same vein, he frequently jokes that there will come a day when people will pay more for his books that he hasn't signed.
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Love this multi-cameo scene in Sleepwalkers...