Steven Spielberg & Stephen King Almost Collaborated On This Forgotten Miniseries

Stephen King, 1994. ph: Steve Hill / TV Guide / courtesy Everett Collection; Steven Spielberg, director, ca. 1990s. ph: Andrew Cooper / ©Dreamworks / courtesy Everett Collection
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For a brief moment, the world was almost blessed with a project where two titans, Stephen King and Steven Spielberg, could have combined forces. In the end, they never directly collaborated on a finished piece, but here is what could have been.

In 1996, Spielberg was searching for a new project, specifically a haunted house tale, and reached out to the Master of Horror himself. According to King, he got a call from the filmmaker, who said, “I want to make the scariest ghost story ever made.”