It seems like such a wonderful union that I’m really surprised it’s ever happened. Director Sam Raimi, who toured the promotion Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madnesssaid he wants to adapt a Stephen King novel for the big screen.

During a chat with CinemaBlend, Raimi revealed that he really wanted to do a Stephen King movie. When asked if he had any particular King novels to adapt, he mentioned a few favorites, but some of them have already been made. Here is what he had to say:

“Oh, absolutely. I love The Shining, but someone already had it. And I loved Carrie, but it had already been done by the time I read it. And then her Night Shift collection is so So many of those stories would have made great movies. Rob Reiner made a great one that I wanted to do too. So there were a lot of great King stories that I wish I could get involved in. Maybe ‘in the future, we can work together.

There is already a prior connection between Sam Raimi and Stephen King. After seeing King diabolical death at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival it went public and called it the fifth favorite horror film of all time in a review for Twilight Magazine. Some believe that due to King’s public support, the film garnered much more attention and a national release from New Line Cinema. In the 1990s, Raimi went on camera for miniseries versions of two of King’s most popular novels. He played a gas station attendant in the brilliant and Bobby Terry, one of Randall Flagg’s henchmen, in The stall.

Which Stephen King novel would you like to see Sam Raimi adapt?