[Asia Economy Reporter Park Byung-hee] The novel by American author Stephen King (73, photo) is being adapted into a movie once again.
According to foreign media on the 4th, American film production company Village Roadshow is making a movie based on King's 1999 novel The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. The protagonist of the novel, Trisha McFarland, is a nine-year-old girl who enjoys listening to baseball games of Boston Red Sox pitcher Tom Gordon on the radio. The story unfolds when McFarland gets lost while trekking with her family.
King is regarded as the world's most commercially successful novelist. He debuted in 1967 with the short story The Glass Floor and has written over 60 novels, including works published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, as well as about 200 short stories. His books have sold more than 350 million copies worldwide.
Many of his works have been adapted into films. His 1977 novel The Shining was made into a film of the same name directed by Stanley Kubrick in 1980. The novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, published in 1982, was adapted into the 1994 film The Shawshank Redemption. The 1987 novel Misery was also made into a film in 1990. Other films based on Stephen King's novels include Stand by Me (1986), Dolores Claiborne (1995), Nightflyers (1997), The Green Mile (1999), and Dreamcatcher (2003). Dozens of King's novels have been turned into movies.
King's novels continue to be published steadily in South Korea as well. Sleeping Beauties, co-written with his son Owen King and released in 2017, was translated and published domestically last February.
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