Emilio Estevez Now Talking Sh*t About Stephen King’s MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE
Mike Sprague
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Mighty Ducks star Emilio Estevez also starred in Stephen King’s cult classic Maximum Overdrive. And today, he admits he regrets starring in King’s directorial debut.
But King’s cool with his comments. So fair enough.
He says in a recent interview with Vanity Fair: “Oh, God, yeah. I’m not speaking out of class because he knows it’s a terrible movie, but Stephen King often talks about his one directorial experience on Maximum Overdrive, which I was in. The few times that I’ve connected with him over the years, he’s like, ‘Can you forgive me for that?’”
While we’re here, he also adds a funny bit about his mom talking shit too. He adds: “I think at one point my mom said, ‘Why’d you do that movie?’ I said, ‘I wanted to work with Stephen King.’ And she said, ‘Couldn’t you have helped him paint his house?’“
That’s actually pretty fucking funny.
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Whatever, I dig King’s movie. And I’m sure you do too. It’s charming as hell. Plus, King’s kid, Joe Hill, said last year he’d take on a new Maximum Overdrive movie.
He tells Post Mortem with Mick Garris: “If someone offered me the chance to write and direct a relaunch of Maximum Overdrive, I’d jump at that in a second. The time is right, okay. So basically, they’re all the self-driving vehicles. So it’s no longer a comet that sets them off, it’s a virus in the electronics that sets them off. And so you’ve got these giant Tesla semi-trucks, ya know, wiping everyone out.”
The 1986 cult classic horror-comedy was written and directed by Stephen King based on his short story Trucks from Night Shift. Emilio Estevez (Repo Man) stars with Laura Harrington, Yeardley Smith, John Short, Frankie Faison, and Pat Hingle (Batman).
It begins after a comet causes a radiation storm on Earth, machines come to life and turn against their makers. Holed up in a North Carolina truck stop, a group of survivors must fend for themselves against a mass of homicidal trucks. A diner cook emerges as the unlikely leader of the pack, attempting to find an escape plan for himself and the survivors, who include his boss, and a newlywed couple.
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