Stephen King Returns To The Screen With A GOOD MARRIAGE

It's coming to theaters, not to your basic cable provider, no matter how cheap it looks.

By Aug. 20, 2014

If my math is right Stephen King hasn't written a screenplay since 1992's Sleepwalkers (I'm talking movies here, not TV things), so A Good Marriage is notable for returning the pen of King to the screen. We have been seeing fewer wide-release King adaptations in general, with much of his work getting adapted for TV or going mostly straight to video.

Based on a novella in his recent Full Dark, No Stars collection, A Good Marriage has Joan Allen discovering her longtime, perfect husband is actually a serial killer. What happens then, according to the trailer, is the stuff of basic cable TV movies; this trailer makes the movie look disappointingly small and cheap. I think 90s thrillers are coming back, which is too bad because they really sucked the first time around. 

This has such a good premise, too. Maybe the actual film is better than the trailer. The poster is certainly great:

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