This event eerily mirrored the opening scenes of Miseryin which famous writer Paul Sheldon is saved from the wreckage of a car accident by a crazed fan Annie Wilkes.Īfter King's real-life accident, he still wrote stories centering around cars and how dangerous they are. King details the lives of car-obsessed greasers in Christine, and how a fixation on cars can take over one's life, and that idea regularly crops up in his narratives. Famously detailed in his book On Writing, King was in a near-fatal car accident on June 19th, 1999. King writes so many memorable cars into his stories because of his upbringing and later because of a terrifying personal experience. Related: Why Stephen King Mostly Writes Horror Stories King has always had a fascination with vehicles, growing up in the age of greasers when cars were an integral part of people's personalities. The main antagonists of the film emerge as a group of sentient semi-trucks that trap the human protagonists in a gas station. The only film that Stephen King has directed is Maximum Overdrive, a story about machines coming to life and destroying their creators.
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