Stephen King Movie Trivia Game

[Tash]

We shall never speak of it again.


Martin Freeman.

[Squire]

Until the next time...

Martin Freeman was in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy with Sam Rockwell who was Billy the Kid in The Green Mile.

Ernest Borgnine.

[Tash]

Borgnine was in the Dirty Dozen with Lee Marvin. Lee starred with William Hurt in Gorky Park. Hurt was in Tuck Everlasting with Sissy Spacek - the original overwrought teenager - Carrie!


Melissa Gilbert

[Squire]

Melissa Gilbert was in a movie called Switched at birth with Rosannah Arquette who was in Desperately Seeking Susan with Aidan Quinn who was in Benny and Joon with Johnny Depp who was in Secret Window.

It's time for me to go Tash. Thanks for a lovely evening. Goodnight (it's morning here, but night time in Oz.)

I'll leave you with this:

Orson Welles.

[Tash]

Tis indeed late here. Thank you Squire, for helping me while away a lazy Wednesday. :)

Orson Welles starred with Paul Newman in Long Hot Summer. Newman co-starred with Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Redford was in The Great Waldo Pepper with Susan Sarandon. Sarandon starred in The Rocky Horror Picture Show with Tim Curry. Tim Curry = Pennywise the Dancing Clown from It!

[Courtney]

Orson Welles was in History of the World: Part 1 with Dom Deluise, who was in an episode of 21 Jump Street with Johnny Depp, who was in Secret Window.

David Hyde Pierce

[Rich]

David Hyde Pierce was in Wolf with Jack Nicholson...

[Rich]

Annette Funnicello

[Squire]

Annette Funicello was in How to Stuff a Wild Bikini with Buster Keaton who Johnny Depp channeled for his performance in Benny and Joon. And Johnny Depp was in Secret Window.

Sam Elliot

[Courtney]

Sam Elliot was in The Golden Compass with Kathy Bates, who was in Misery/Dolores Claiborne.

Jay Baruchel

[Squire]

Jay Baruchel was in Tropic Thunder with Jack Black who was the in the finely-tuned Bernie with Shirley Mclane who starred with Jack Nicholson in Terms of Endearment and in life you either know Jack or you don't.

[Angie, Constant Reader]

I suck at this game so bad.

[Gino]

Alan Rickman was in Die Hard with Bruce Willis who was in Red with Morgan Freeman who was in Dreamcatcher

[Gino]

Ummm...forgot to start new one...

Michael Cain

[Gino]

Shoot mine didn't post, Alan Rickman in Die Hard with Bruce Willis in Reds with Morgan Freeman who was in Shawshank and DreamCatcher...

Joe Pesci

[Gino]

I should pick an actress instead starting with an actress and ending with an actress? (How's that sound?)

Mila Kunis

[Larry]

Hope I'm playing this correctly...she starred with Ben Affleck in Extract. Affleck is associated with The Stand project.

BTW I'm friends with a girl(Tonya Kay-Look her up) who has a bit part in the new Long Ranger film. Of course that leads to Depp who was in Secret Window...

Joe E Ross

[Jack]

Joe E Ross was in Car 54, Where Are You? with Fred Gwynne who played the old guy next door in Pet Sematary.

Ummm, how about Elizabeth Taylor?

[Eloise]

OK... Elizabeth Taylor is in Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf with her then husband Richard Burton. Burton is in Where Eagles Dare with Clint Eastwood. Eastwood is in Unforgiven with Morgan Freeman who stars in The Shawshank Redemption.

try... Jeremy Northam

[Squire]

Jeremy Northam was in Amistad with Morgan Freeman who was in Dreamcatcher.

Justin Bartha

[Jack]

Justin Bartha was in National Treasure: The Book of Secrets with Ed Harris who was in The Stand. Does that count, it being a tv series? If not he was in NT: TBOS with Diane Kruger who was in Inglorious Basterds with Brad Pitt who was in True Romance with Cristian Slater, the star of Dolan's Cadillac.

Chevy Chase?

[Courtney]

Kevin Bacon was in Mystic River with Tim Robbins, who was in Shawshank.

Michael Rosenbaum

[Jade]

Michael Rosenbaum was in Urban Legend with Jared Leto who was in Fight Club with Brad Pitt who was in Seven with Morgan Freeman who was in The Shawshank Redmption :D

Jake Gyllenhall

[Beth]

Jake Gyllenhall was in City Slickers with Jack Palance, who was in Batman with Jack Nickelson, who was in The Shining.


Stephen Lang

[Squire]

Stephen lang was in Avatar with Sigourney Weaver who starred in The Villiage with William Hurt who was in Battleground (an episode of Nightmares & Dreamscapes).

Tim Blake Nelson

[Eric]

Tim Blake Nelson was in O Brother Where Art Thou with John Turturro who was in Secret Window (Secret Window Secret Garden...Four Past Midnight?). The easy route, I know. :P

Chris Cooper

[Jade]

Chris Cooper was in American Beauty with Kevin Spacey who was in Seven with Morgan Freeman who was in Shawshank. (Sorry - I couldn't resist another turn!)

Alan Rickman

[Jack]

Alan Rickman was in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves with Morgan Freeman who was in....
Sorry I'll start again. Alan Rickman was in Die Hard with Bruce Willis who starred opposite Gary Oldman in the Fifth Element. Oldman was in the Nolan Batman trilogy with Morgan Free...
Dammit!!!
Rickman was in An Awfully Big Adventure with Hugh Grant who was in Mickey Blue Eyes with James Caan who was in Misery.

[Squire]

The problem seems to be that the last person didn't give us a person to link to King.

Noel Coward

[Traci]

Noel Coward was in The Italian Job with Michael Caine who was in The Dark Knight with Christian Bale who was in Public Enemies with Johnny Depp who starred in Secret Window as Mort Rainey

[Traci]

Amanda Seyfried

[Elmarie]

Alan Rickman was is Alice in Wonderland and he starred with Johnny Depp who was in Secret Window (Stephen King - Secret Window, Secret Garden) - Easy Peasy Japanesey :)

[Elmarie]

I'll pick: Martin Sheen

[Squire]

Hmmm...we were on Amanda Seyfreid.

Amanda Seyfried was in Les Miserables with Hugh Jackman who was in X-Men Origins: Wolverine with Liev Schreiber who was in The Sum of all Fears with Morgan Freeman who was in...well, Dreamcatcher.

Frankie Avalon

[Elmarie]

Okay - Franki Avalon was in Grease with John Travolta who was in Look Who's Talking with Kirstie Alley who was in Cheers with Ted Danson, who was in Saving Private Ryan with Tom Hanks who was in The Green Mile - SK

[Squire]

Outstanding!

[Elmarie]

Thanks it took me awhile hiehie :)
Okay now lets try Martin Sheen

[Squire]

Well....Martin Sheen was in The Dead Zone. Maybe try another?

[Elmarie]

oh really. That's lame. I never watched The Dead Zone only read it haha. How embarrassing.. Okay let me think....

What about: Tim Roth

[Squire]

Tim ROth was in The incredible Hulk with Liv Tyler who was in Armegeddon with Michael Clarke Duncan (RIP) who was in the The Green Mile.

Alec Guiness

[Elmarie]

Alec Guiness was in Star Wars with James Earl Jones, who appeared in The Twilight Zone: Rod Sterling's Lost Classics. Rod Sterling is a writer for Twilight Zone who featured an episode Gramma - SK

[Squire]

Nice. I was thinking the Star Wars connection also, but with Harrison Ford who was in apocalypse now ith Martin Sheen. Kudos on getting some writers in there, tho.

[Elmarie]

Michael Palin

[Squire]

Michael Palin was in A Fish Called Wanda with Jamie Lee Curtis who was Perfect with John Travolta who was in Carrie (the better one).

Peter Sellers (Am I dating myself with these movie stars?)

[Elmarie]

Peter Sellers starred in The Pink Panther with Leonard Rossiter who starred in Alice in Wonderland (TV series)with Eric Sykes who starred in Harry Potter with Timothy Spall who starred in Alice in Wonderland with Johnny Depp - Secret Window SK

[Elmarie]

:)
Anna Paquin

[Lorraine]

Anna Paquin was in Finding Forrester with F. Murray Abraham who was in Muppets in Space with Ray Liotta who was in Wild Hogs with John Travolta who was in Carrie.

Sean Connery

[Amethyst]

Sean Connery was in Hunt For Red October with Tim Curry who played Pennywise in It.

Jimmy Stewart

[Elmarie]

Sean Connery was in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen with Stuart Townsend who is married to Charlize Theron who stars in The Italian Job with Edward Norton who stars with Edward Furlong in American History X who was in Pet Semetary 2

[Elmarie]

Zach Galifianakis