Henry Prize and other awards, and “Riding the Bullet,” which attracted over half a million online readers and became the most famous short story of the decade, as well as stories first published in The New Yorker, “1408,” made into a movie starring John Cusack. Sometimes, you don’t know.Includes the story “The Man in the Black Suit”-set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maineįrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King, the iconic, spine-tingling story collection that includes winners of an O. Scott Alexander: “Well, maybe you should call it the special edition or something.” But that’s obviously not the case, as you can hear when you listen to us.” Mikael Håfström: “Yeah, exactly, director’s cuts, you know, you can get the feeling that this is exactly what I wanted and I was forced to release something else. Scott Alexander: “What’s interesting is you call this the director’s cut, but it sounds like there are actually things about the theatrical version you prefer.” Then, just when the credits starts to roll, Alexander decides to talk to Håfström about the director’s cut: I think there is a lot of layers in the ending that we had in the theatrical version.” “…I have to admit, I liked the ending we had.

Late in the commentary track, when watching the new ending the director’s cut, Håfström states the following: Source: Mikael Håfström in the commentary track for 1408 on Blu-ray We’re gonna try together to navigate you through this so-called director’s cut of 1408.” Håfström had some interesting things to say about the director’s cut where he simply opened up the commentary with the following:

The US Blu-ray release only includes the director’s cut.ĭirector Mikael Håfström was joined by screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski on the commentary track of the US Blu-ray. 1408 was released on DVD in the US in a Collector’s Edition where it included the theatrical and director’s cut.

It is based on a short story of the same name from the short story collection Everything’s Eventual.

The horror film 1408 is considered one of the better film adaptations of the works of Stephen King.

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