Line, one of the workman is dead behind the wheel. With the story.' But, later, I was told that in the opening sequence, when the car rolls off the assembly When the film people came to me, I said, 'Look, this is your decision. I think that, in the book, there is the suggestion that it's probably Le Bay, rather In fact, it may be - and I'm just guessing - that Le Bay isn't anywhere near as Was it Le Bay, or was it the car? I understand that theirĪnswer is that it was the car. Questions with which the movie people started to wrestle. To tell from reading the book whether Christine is evil herself, or whether Le Bay makes her evil. Watch, it takes a licking and goes on ticking. But they should feel happy, because it's a pretty lively car and it lasts a long time. Seriously, I don't know how Chrysler feels about Christine, anymore than I know how the Ford Company feels about Cujo, in which a woman is stranded inĪ Pinto. Hand, nobody ever talked about the Plymouth products, and I thought, 'Well.' Besides, Lee Iacocca gave Some of the Chevrolets, for example, were supposed to have been legendary door-suckers. That already had a legend attached to it like the fifties Thunderbird, the Ford Galaxies etc. They were the most mundane fifties car that I could remember. The photographer, whose name was Andy Unangst liked the car so much that he bought it!Īlmost totally forgotten cars. We did this photograph session almost like a rock-and-roll album cover. Was loaned to us by a Pennsylvania outfit that handles vintage cars for movies. Picture of you with a Plymouth Fury on the book's dust jacket. Written have been located either in Maine or in Colorado for the most part. ], which is so far from the New England setting of the other stories. To famous Pittsburgh filmmaker George Romero, for whom King wrote Creepshow.

The thing is that it takes place in Pittsburgh [Christine is dedicated Shining taught, and where the plague center was in The LOFFICIER : It doesn't seem that Christine fits into your usual fictional 'universe' of Maine or New England towns like CastleĪlthough there is some reference made to the fact that Arnie Cunningham, on some of his fireworks runs for Willĭarnell, goes through the town of Stovington, Vermont, which is where Jack Torrance from The Novel and his own feelings about the fifties. He had not yet seen the movie Christine ,Īnd was therefore, understandably, not willing to comment on the film.

When Stephen King agreed to this interview ,

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