One of Stephen King's most well-known and acclaimed works is Carrie. Featuring a bullied telekinetic teen who is eventually pushed too far by her tormentors, the book and its 1976 movie adaptation are still haunting and iconic to this day. The film was also the first adaptation of a Stephen King novel, beginning a Hollywood trend that is still going on in 2022.

The movie was well-received by critics, audiences and King himself, but it also disrespected King in an interesting way. This wasn't the typical fashion that makes authors dislike adaptations of their works, but something far more personal and arguably lazy. Said slight toward Stephen King can be seen in the movie's first trailer, showing that the trailer's editor apparently didn't even know who wrote the source material.

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1976's Carrie Didn't Even Spell Stephen King's Name Right

Adapting Stephen King's 1974 novel of the same name, Carrie was a film by Brian de Palma and the first adaptation of one of Stephen King's works. This made it the first of over 100 adaptations, with King supplying the formula for numerous shows and movies over the past several decades. The trailer for Carrie certainly creeped out and enticed even those who had read the original novel beforehand, but its biggest scare had to be the one it gave to King himself.

In the movie's rather longwinded trailer, one which practically gives away the entire plot, a director and original author credit are given to both Brian de Palma and Stephen King. Unfortunately, literacy was not a top priority, as King's name is blatantly misspelled. Rendered in the more typical spelling of "Steven," King's big break in Hollywood arguably doesn't even belong to him, given that he's credited as essentially someone other than himself.

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Stephen King's First Movie Adaptation Is Still Considered His Best

It's rather amateurish that the author of the book that the movie was based on had his name misspelled in the film's trailer. Some might chalk it up to the fact that Stephen King was far less known back then, but while that's true, he was still known well enough to have his book adapted into a movie a mere two years after it was published. Likewise, the trailer itself makes a big deal about the popularity and reception of the Carrie novel, so still getting the author's name wrong when it's emblazoned on the front of said book is the king of all headscratchers.

Despite this rather interesting form of likely unintentional disrespect, Carrie is still high on the list of 1970s horror movies and Stephen King adaptations. King himself feels this way, despite being known for criticizing adaptations of his books. For instance, he notoriously hates Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, and his lack of love for the original Firestarter movie likely extends to the far more horrendous 2022 version. Still, he regards de Palma's Carrie as being even better than his book in some ways, a feeling that many of his fans agree with. Thus, Carrie's trip to the prom was an exciting night for everyone involved, even if their names were misspelled.