"I didn't agree with that at all," Bates said of a change to the script Virginia Chamlee is a Politics Writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE for three years. Her work has previously ...

But director Rob Reiner did make a key change from the original Stephen King novel on which the 1990 film is based. In the book, Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates) chops off romance novelist Paul Sheldon's ...

And she said, 'Can I call my mother?'" Kathy Bates and James Caan in Misery Columbia/Courtesy Everett Collection Reiner also alluded to the backstage tension between Caan and Bates. "In Misery, Kathy ...

Last weekend thousands of the world’s most passionate and obsessive movie fans descended upon Hollywood for the 16th annual TCM Classic Film Festival, which provided opportunities to see everything ...

It is a daunting thing to transform a famous novel, which was turned into a famous movie, into something on the stage. Stephen King’s novel about an obsessive super-fan named Annie Wilkes (who brings ...

The years have seen some of the best Stephen King adaptations become controversial for the changes they have made to the prolific author’s original novels – we all know King’s feelings about Stanley ...

"Misery" was adapted into a film starring Kathy Bates and James Caan, and it's been called one of the greatest scary movies of all time. The book was also adapted into a play and has been shown on ...

While it's well-known for being among the most diabolical films in recent history, Kathy Bates thinks the 1990 horror film Misery could have gone even further. In an appearance at the 6th annual TCM ...

Misery doesn't pull any punches when it comes to the violence and torture of its main character, Paul Sheldon (James Caan). However, Reiner thought Sheldon should be merely badly injured, not ...

Rob Reiner is an unabashed Stephen King fan. He third movie was Stand by Me, based on the King story "The Body." Shortly after the release of that film, he formed his own production company, Castle ...