[Nzoner]

Originally Posted by frankotank

I've never taken the time to research....but I heard a long time ago the King supposedly started a law suit against.....whoever....about the Nicholson version of the movie.

I was very disappointed in many things about it...the hedge animals are just badass, yet left out in place of a stupid hedge maze.....but the ENDING was just so ****ed up in the movie I about blew a gasket. they simply took a ton of incredibly heart felt emotion...and threw it in the trash.

the book & Steven Weber ending just makes you want to cry man! it's so ****ing AWESOME.

Spoiler!

he's become a ****ing MONSTER. but he forgot to dump the boiler, so he has to hold off on killing the family and go TCB. but at the very end his son reaches him telepathically and he fights off the evil for a moment and they throw down the line from earlier in the movie ....boy says "kissing kissing" weber says "that's what I've been missing" and holds his hands over his heart and lets the sonofabitch explode. of course I've bastardized it making it nowhere near as elegant or emotional...but that killed me...both in the book and in the Weber movie.

Don't know about a lawsuit but I have heard him say he was very disappointed in Stanley Kubrick's vision of his book.