The king of horror loved the disastrous work of the director who shot the cult ‘The Exorcist’.
Devoted Stephen King fans can long guess which horror film tops the list of the writer’s favorite films, but such a thing simply does not exist – all because King’s favorite was not a horror and, oddly enough, not even a box office hit. As the writer himself once admitted, his all-time favorite has long been “The Sorcerer”, released in 1977 – the picture was shot and produced by William Friedkin, who had directed “The Exorcist” a few years earlier.
Despite Friedkin’s own objections, many still believe that The Sorcerer was a remake of Henri-Georges Clouzot’s The Wages of Fear. King, meanwhile, is confident that “The Sorcerer” came out much better, even though it failed at the box office – with a budget of $22 million the photo collected everything 12 million.
Be that as it may, both films tell roughly the same story of four men forced to hide in South America and decide to work as drivers of explosives trucks. For completing this most dangerous mission, they each receive $10,000 and citizenship – but completing this mission is almost suicide.
It is noteworthy that “The Sorcerer” became a favorite not only of Stephen King, but also of William Friedkin – the director noted more than once that he loved the film with all his soul and would never change a single detail of the plot.
Source: Popcorn News
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