If you set Stephen King to writing for The Sopranos, you might well end up with something like Dolan’s Cadillac. Based on a story King did in his Nightmares and Dreamscapes collection, Dolan’s Cadillac is about a mob boss who kills a man’s wife.  The man, naturally, follows up for revenge.  Which, admittedly, does not sound very Stephen King—the car doesn’t run by itself, the wife doesn’t come back from the dead, and absolutely no ghosts or aliens are involved—but Stephen King’s done some more action-themed stuff in the past, so Dolan’s Cadillac doesn’t surprise me one bit.

But can it make a movie?  That’s the question on my mind.  Though Christian Slater, Emmanuel Vaugier and reportedly Dennis Hopper are involved, I’m not sure a lesser-known Stephen King title from his lesser-known genres is the best route to go.  Especially with so much good still out there, like “The Jaunt”—now that was cool. 

But until we get to find out—production doesn’t begin until May 14th—stick to the horror movie trivia on Kwanzoo, where Stephen King’s best work lies.

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