The Night Flier is a highly underestimated Stephen King version, and its annulled sequel almost investigated into the source of the central vampire. When it comes to King’s vampire stories, the one that comes to mind for most people is reasonably Salem’s Lot, one of his initial novels and still one of his best. However, Jerusalem’s Lot isn’t the only place in King’s fictional multiverse that vampires have seemed to target on the blood of the living.
The story
“The Night Flier” emphasizes a tabloid journalist named Richard Dees, a rough-edged, highly pessimistic man who doesn’t indeed have faith in the ridiculous things he makes an existing reporting on. Until what he reflects is a serial killer blood sports airports, it turns out to be a rather outrageous vampire, one who truly flies around on a plane between homicide ends. It nerves Dees to his principal, and things don’t end chiefly well for him.
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Why Stephen King not even could get made The Night Flier 2
By the mid-2000s, The Night Flier had prospered in earning a cult fanbase. Its status as an unrecognized Stephen King adaptation had grown, leading producer Richard P. Rubinstein to procure Night Flier director and co-writer Mark Pavia to write a sequel. Rubinstein was quite satisfied with the consequence and sent it to King himself, who was also glad about it, conflicting with his usual dislike of sequels to his work. Titled Night Flier 2: Fear of Flying, Pavia and King’s sequel was a direct continuation to the first film, placing on the Katherine Blair character, and also investigating into the backgrounds of the vampire, who used the Dracula-inspired codenamed Dwight Renfield when flying between airports. Richard Dees likely wouldn’t have looked, as his character was slaughtered at the end of the original Night Flier. One would think that having King devoted to the venture would’ve been enough to get it made, but sadly, that didn’t happen.
