For a brief moment, the world was almost blessed with a project where two titans, Stephen King and Steven Spielberg, could have combined forces. In the end, they never directly collaborated on a finished piece, but here is what could have been.
In 1996, Spielberg was searching for a new project, specifically a haunted house tale, and reached out to the Master of Horror himself. According to King, he got a call from the filmmaker, who said, “I want to make the scariest ghost story ever made.”