It: Welcome to Derry chronicles the events of the 1962 cycle of the evil entity behind Pennywise the Dancing Clown. Tension is high, the civil rights movement is making ground and the Cold War is about to reach its zenith. All this is fertile ground for It to do its thing. It: Welcome to Derry airs on HBO Max every Sunday and the official companion podcast can be downloaded immediately after wherever you get your podcasts.

The Running Man was adapted into an '80s action star vehicle for Arnold Schwarzenegger, a film that is extremely entertaining and sharply satirical, but one that bears little resemblance to the King/Bachman novel it was based on. Edgar Wright and his team decided to make a film that hews closer to the source material. The Running Man hits theaters November 7th.

It: Welcome to Derry premieres October 26th on HBO and explores the events of the cycle previous to the one featured in the films, set all the way back in 1962 Derry.

This Kingcast episode was recorded in front of a live (rowdy bar) audience.

Clark Collis is known as an entertainment journalist, historian, and author and comes at this conversation with a ton of love for the horror genre and of Stephen King's work therein. He's also ready to drop a few entertaining film coverage stories with his fellow ex-pat journalist pals who just so happen to host this show.

2019's Pet Sematary is a wild swing of a remake directed by Dennis Widmyer and Kevin Kolsch that goes even darker than the original Mary Lambert adaptation. It sticks to the main beats of King's original story until it veers off in a wildly different direction, a decision that proved divisive among King constant readers, but one you have to admire over playing it safe and just doing a simple modern updating of the material.

The Long Walk follows a group of young men engaged in a deadly game where the prize is an escape from poverty, but the penalty is death and there can be only one winner. The Long Walk is currently out in theaters.

Set in an alternate world where the US run by an authoritarian regime, The Long Walk follows a group of young men who partake in a deadly endurance contest where there can be only one survivor. Despite the heavy odds and even heavier penalties for failure, friendships grow and bonds are formed as these guys support each other mile after mile.

The Lawnmower Man is a controversial King adaptation and one that King himself had to sue to get his name removed from. The movie shares virtually nothing with the original King short story outside of a spark of telekinesis and a lawnmower. Jeff Fahey stars as Jobe, a simple man who is made smarter thanks to Pierce Brosnan's mad scientist experiments and a VR headset.

The Institute brings King back into familiar territory as he focuses on a bunch of kids gifted with telekinetic powers being studied by a shady government organization. There's currently a TV adaptation airing week to week on MGM+ starring today's guest.

The Shawshank Redemption was not a success on release, but has grown into a modern day classic, one of those perfect lightning in a bottle movies. The period film is set in a corrupt prison as a wrongfully convicted inmate makes friends, enemies, and hatches a decades long escape.

Cycle of the Werewolf began life as a Bernie Wrightson calendar and King couldn't help but expand on the idea of documenting a different werewolf attack every month on the full moon into a novella length narrative following a little boy in a wheelchair facing off against a werewolf that is terrorizing his small town.

Fairy Tale is King's COVID novel. In the early days of lockdown, this is what King's imagination fed to him, an escapist story of a young man on a quest into a fantasy world that holds fortunes, danger, and the ability to save his aging dog, Radar.

The Stand is Stephen King's epic story of good versus evil set against the ruins of a plague-riddled America as the fate of all of humanity is decided by the followers of the saintly Mother Abigail and the dastardly charming devil-in-human-form Randall Flagg.

Breznican and Vespe talk with the two actors about their first impressions of the material, their conversations with writer/director Mike Flanagan, and just how impressed they both were to share the screen with both OG Kingcast hosts.

Mike Flanagan returns to The Kingcast on the one year anniversary of Scott Wampler's passing to discuss the impact Scott had on his newest Stephen King adaptation, The Life of Chuck, from the initial Kingcast host cameos to the decision to dedicate the film to Scott after his death. Don't worry, the whole thing isn't a bummer, we also talk about assembling the killer cast of the movie as well as get updates on both The Dark Tower and Carrie.

Matthew Lillard (Scream, Scooby-Doo, Five Nights At Freddy's) joins Breznican and Vespe to talk about taking part in the latest Stephen King adaptation: The Life of Chuck. This wild conversation goes off the rails within 20 seconds of the intro so you know you're in for a good time. There is Stephen King talk, of course, but also some insight into working with Uwe Boll, one of the world's worst directors. We chat about his big monologue in The Life of Chuck, his reputation for being one of the best signers at horror conventions, how his sister played a major roll in one of the biggest horror events in the last 30 years, and so much more.

Celebrated novelist and writer Tananarive Due joins us to discuss Stephen King's The Outsider and the quite good HBO mini-series adaptation starring Jason Bateman, Cynthia Erivo, and Ben Mendelsohn. She also dives deep into her background with King, playing with in the Rock Bottom Remainders, and the deep, personal family trauma that went into her novel, The Reformatory.

Director Julia Max (whose upcoming horror film, The Surrender, is released May 23rd) joins Vespe and Breznican to talk about one of King's less-talked about forays into the world of the TV mini-series: 2002's Rose Red. We talk about severed fingers, creepy mirrored ballrooms, and a surprising amount about what exactly happens when we die. Things go from goofy to philosophical and then back to silliness in this one.