I think that’s why Joan Allen got involved. And I liked it because it was from the woman’s point of view. A Good Marriage is about 100 pages long, about as long as Shawshank, or The Body, which became Stand By Me. “I’ve seen enough movies adapted from my work to know that the things that work the best are the things that aren’t too long and aren’t too short. Some of the stories, when they get expanded, they go in the wrong direction, and with the novels, if they’re really expansive, a lot of times it’s like sitting around a suitcase and trying to get everything in. In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, King had this to say about adapting his story: It’s based on one of the author’s many short stories, and King actually adapted the story himself (as he did for Pet Semetary and Cell) for this movie. There are plenty of familiar Stephen King adaptations in the works ( including a prequel and sequel to The Shining), but A Good Marriage somehow flew under all of our radars.
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