As I’ve chronicled in the writing of this weekly column, the choice of medium is key in adapting the works of Stephen King, and his novels in particular have vexed many filmmakers. The limited runtime of theatrical movies often forces massive cuts to compensate for the author’s verbose style, and TV shows like USA Network’s The Dead Zone, Syfy’s Haven, and CBS’s Under The Dome all had to dilute their source material in the name of generating multiple years’ worth of stories. There has been a lot of success with miniseries, but even those have had limitations – such as...