Overview

• In a Sept. 8 post on X, King listed ten favorites in no particular order, including Sorcerer, The Godfather Part II, Jaws, Casablanca, Double Indemnity, Groundhog Day, The Getaway, Mean Streets, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
• He explicitly excluded four celebrated adaptations of his work—Misery, The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, and Stand By Me—to keep the list focused beyond his own bibliography.
• Coverage highlighted that most selections come from the 1940s and 1970s and that traditional horror is largely absent, offering a window into the eras and genres that shaped his tastes.
• Outlets linked the reveal to current promotion for The Long Walk, which Lionsgate releases Sept. 12 and which early reviews describe as a standout Stephen King adaptation.
• Media summaries also revisited King’s long-recorded objections to Kubrick’s The Shining, while fans on social platforms praised the picks and debated choices such as favoring The Godfather Part II over the original.