![]() ![]() One such suggestion was King’s Magnum Opus IT a horror epic with science fiction undertones about a group of pre-pubescent kids, riding around on their bikes in a time before cell phones and the internet, facing off against an inter-dimensional being that has been abducting children. I presented readers with my top five choices for SK novels to be turned into video games. Last week I wrote an article about video games in which I asked the question: Why aren’t there any based off Stephen King novels? His work is full of rich characters and wonderfully weird and horrific story lines, yet nobody seems to be doing it. With a second season now confirmed for the show, I’ve gotten to thinking, like I do, about how the show could potentially branch out across media to become a transmedia franchise (something I believe is crucial for the survival of franchises in the very near future). As I write this article, Episode 1 is playing in the background – my third or fourth time watching it. ![]() ![]() Like most of the world, in the past month or so I have become absolutely captivated by the fantastic Netflix Original Show Stranger Things. For those of you who haven’t I’ll give you this simple explanation before we continue – transmedia storytelling is the telling of different stories within the same story world, released intermittently on multiple platforms for example – a TV show, a video game, a movie and a tie-in novel. If you’ve read some of my previous articles, you may have noticed more than a passing interest in transmedia storytelling. ![]()
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