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[–] [email protected] 94 points 5 months ago (15 children)

Let's not forget the movie, Maximum ~~Overdrive~~ Cocaine.

On a less auspicious note, 1986 also marked the nadir of the cocaine addition phase of King’s career in the form of Maximum Overdrive, the first, last and I think it’s safe to assume, only, adaptation of Stephen King’s work to be directed by Stephen King himself. In Hollywood’s Stephen King, King says, with characteristic self-deprecating bluntness, that he was“coked out of [his] mind all through its production, and [he] really didn't know what [he] was doing.”

That comes through loud and clear in every frame of the movie. King is credited as director here but this might be another case of a giant bag of cocaine becoming sentient and deciding to direct a movie that reflected its sensibility in its purest form. King is one of our greatest storytellers, but a movie about a crazy world full of Southern-fried assholes where all the machines suddenly become sentient and try to kill all humans sure seems like the kind of idea a sentient bag of cocaine would come up with.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago (13 children)

King actually has a book on writing. And yes, it’s about having the discipline to write everyday.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

If I remember correctly, he does talk about his drug use in that book. He even talks about drinking mouthwash at one point because he was that much of an alcoholic.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I definitely remember him saying that it’s a job and he sits at his desk and types 6+ hours a day but I don’t remember that book detailing his addiction.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago (3 children)

He was a better writer when he was on massive amounts of drugs and alcohol.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Do we have a timeline for that? I need to know if he was high while writing the Dark Tower novels.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Probably yes and no since he wrote the first line in college.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Sometimes. Ever read the story the movie Lawnmower Man wasn't actually based on even though it says it was?

There was definitely such a thing as Stephen King doing too much cocaine.

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