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Why Legendary Horror Icon Stephen King Feels ZERO Pressure When A New Film Or TV Project Premieres · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. When you talk about
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Speaker 1: people who have made a massive impact on cinematic history
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Speaker 1: without typically working in the film business, Stephen King has
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Speaker 1: to be at the top of the list. The acclaim
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Speaker 1: writer has been behind the stories of countless classic movies
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Speaker 1: like stand By Me, Shawshank, Redemption, It, The Shining, and
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Speaker 1: that's just a tiny fraction of his works that have
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Speaker 1: been adapted. Having a track record like that could intimidate
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Speaker 1: a lot of writers when another project gets adapted, but
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Speaker 1: Steven doesn't feel it because damn, it's got very little
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Speaker 1: to do with him. He tells Deadline, I'm not a
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Speaker 1: movie maker, and that's taken a lot of pressure off me.
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Speaker 1: I've got a film background as a fan. I love
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Speaker 1: movies and I watch a lot to this day, but
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Speaker 1: as far as making films, it's a different job. I
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Speaker 1: used to look at screenwriting as work for people that
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Speaker 1: weren't that talented. When I was able to change my
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Speaker 1: mind about that, I was able to do better work.
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Speaker 1: Leacy's Story the latest work adapted from Stephen King's writings,
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Speaker 1: available Apple TV plus that's Direct from Hollywood