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Prolific horror author Stephen King has unveiled his top 10 favorite movies of all time \u2014 and, naturally, he\u2019s excluding his own adaptations from the list.<\/p>\n
The multi-hyphenate, whose novels The Long Walk, The Running Man and It are all receiving forthcoming Hollywood projects, tweeted his list<\/a> earlier today, \u201cin no particular order.\u201d<\/p>\n More from Deadline<\/strong><\/p>\n Unsurprisingly, his chosen projects include seminal directors \u2014 William Friedkin, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Billy Wilder and Steven Spielberg (the latter, twice) \u2014 and two entries each featuring legendary performers Humphrey Bogart, Richard Dreyfuss and Robert De Niro. The list is also largely dominated by \u201970s classics (unsurprising, given King was coming of age at this time in his 20s).<\/p>\n King begins with Sorcerer, which was critically panned and a box office disaster \u2014 perhaps due to Star Wars becoming a runaway success just a month earlier in 1977. Since then, it has received a critical reappraisal, and been cited by some as an underrated masterpiece \u2014 including by Friedkin (The Exorcist) himself, who said it was his most personal and difficult project.<\/p>\n He also lists the six-time Academy Award winning The Godfather Part II and 1972\u2019s The Getaway, which stars Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw in a Bonnie & Clyde-esque caper. Perhaps a surprising entry for a writer known for his hair-raising works is the Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell time-loop rom-com Groundhog Day, a universally beloved staple in the genre that has inspired a wide range of subsequent repeating-day movies from Palm Springs (2020) to Happy Death Day (2017).<\/p>\n As any respectable cinephile, King also includes Casablanca on his list, the ever-quotable and devastatingly moving Bogart and Ingrid Bergman romantic drama set against the backdrop of World War II.<\/p>\n Additionally on the list are John Huston\u2019s neo-Western The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) and Billy Wilder\u2019s classic film noir Double Indemnity (1944). Also listed are the first-ever summer blockbuster Jaws, which just celebrated its 50th anniversary and will soon feature in an Academy Museum exhibition, and sci-fi UFO drama Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Scorsese\u2019s Mean Streets, his first of several collaborations with De Niro, also makes the cut.<\/p>\n Interestingly, more than half the list features pics that have been adapted from novels (Sorcerer, Godfather, The Getaway, Sierra Madre, Jaws and Double Indemnity), with Close Encounters receiving a novelization released in conjunction with the film\u2019s debut.<\/p>\n Noted in his list is the exclusion of his own top four adaptations: Misery and Stand By Me (both directed by Rob Reiner), as well as The Green Mile and The Shawshank Redemption (both helmed by Frank Darabont, who also adapted The Mist). (You\u2019ll notice the widely lauded The Shining does not make the cut, as King infamously despised Stanley Kubrick\u2019s take on his source material. Also, potentially surprising is Carrie\u2018s omission, a horror juggernaut I\u2019d argue should be included.)<\/p>\n Best of Deadline<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Deadline’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source uk.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Prolific horror author Stephen King has unveiled his top 10 favorite movies of all time \u2014 and, naturally, he\u2019s excluding his own adaptations from the list. 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