{"id":1133,"date":"2008-07-18T07:19:36","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T21:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/07\/18\/the-hotel-room\/"},"modified":"2008-07-18T07:19:36","modified_gmt":"2008-07-17T21:19:36","slug":"the-hotel-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/07\/18\/the-hotel-room\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hotel Room"},"content":{"rendered":"

The story goes that Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy were keen to make a miniseries of it, but cost and backroom politics seem to have killed that. We’re talking about Stephen King and Peter Straub’s fantasy The Talisman<\/em> here, the epic scope of which is apparently hindering the book’s translation to cinema.<\/p>\n

But the prospect that it might get made inspired director Matthieu Ratthi to make a demo scene, hoping to encourage the Powers That Be to consider him for the job of directing a Talisman<\/em> movie, should such a beast ever be unleashed. The result is called “The Hotel Room”, and in my opinion it works remarkably effectively as a stand-alone piece of cinematic “flash fiction”.
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