The Kingcast

JT Mollner wrote and directed the very cool indie horror flick Strange Darling, which is out in theaters now, and he also happened to write the screenplay for the upcoming adaptation of Stephen King's The Long Walk. We talk a little bit about The Long Walk and Strange Darling and a lot about Stephen King, with a focus on the absolute banger 2014 novel REVIVAL. This ended up being o

It's only right that the director of one of the better Stephen King adaptations has his moment on The Kingcast. 1408 director Mikael Hafstrom has a new movie out called Slingshot (starring Casey Affleck and Laurence Fishburne) that he views as a sort of cousin to his work on 1408, which provided the perfect excuse to have him come on and reminisce about his experience making 1408.

We're finally tackling Duma Key here at the Kingcast and we brought along two of our most trustworthy friends to help out. Writer and King fanatic Zach Dionne acts as guest co-host and model, streamer, master chef, mother of blind cats, and longtime Kingcast favorite guest Laura Lux returns to talk through this lengthy, complicated book. We fancast a movie version, dive deep into t

Our guest this week is the legendary screenwriter Steven E. de Souza, who wrote The Running Man. He was Schwarzenegger's go-to guy, having written Commando before this, and he'd go on to write a little movie by the name of Die Hard. Kingcast favorite Mallory O'Meara (Girly Drinks) sits in the guest co-host seat and helps Vespe interview de Souza about his work with Schwarzenegger,

Cuckoo writer/director Tilman Singer is here this week to talk about Stephen King's wild directorial debut: Maximum Overdrive. We chat about kids getting beaned by Coke cans, the differences between the short story and the movie, King's eye as director, and try to figure out what machine would get us if the world ended up... in Maximum Overdrive.

Vespe is joined by Burnie Burns, co-founder of Rooster Teeth and co-host of the current popular podcast Morning Somewhere. While Burnie is famous for his presence in video game-based online entertainment, he also happens to be a big Stephen King fan and agreed to show up and talk about The Long Walk, one of King's best stories that is currently getting its first big screen adaptati

Listener favorite guest, author Stephen Graham Jones (The Indian Lake Trilogy) makes his triumphant return to The Kingcast to discuss King's most recent short story collection You Like It Darker. They're joined by guest co-host Neil McRobert, the host of the Talking Scared podcast, to go story by story through this new collection. The trio find running themes, point our their favor

Danny Torrance himself, Mr. Dan Lloyd, joins Vespe and guest co-host Mike Flanagan (Doctor Sleep) to talk about his work on Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. While he appeared in a few other things, Lloyd quickly left the Hollywood lifestyle and is now a teacher, but he still made time to come on the show, look back at his fuzzy childhood memories of Kubrick, the late, great Shelley D

Guest co-host Alejandro Brugues (Juan of the Dead, Satanic Hispanics) joins Vespe to chat with the wonderful character actor Bob Gunton, the star of his latest film The Inheritance. Bob has a very special Stephen King connection: He played the dastardly Warden Norton in The Shawshank Redemption. Bob goes in-depth on his work in Shawshank, including his working relationship with dir

Today's episode of The Kingcast is a bittersweet one. This marks the very last Scott Wampler hosted episode of the show, which is sad, but it's also kind of fitting that he's leaving us with an episode where he gets to debate the level of redneck Jordy Verrill was with the very funny Brent Terhune, a comedian who turned a lot of heads imitating the worst of the worst angry white gu