Remedy Entertainment Paid Stephen King a Dollar to Use His Adaptation of ‘Alan Wake’

King StephenHe’s a great guy, if you didn’t know. Not only did the lead author set up software to allow students to use the rights to his novels For only one dollarBut Stephen King also made the same dollar deal with Remedy Entertainment and Alan Wake.

Talking to EurogamerRemedy Sam Lake He recently revealed that he was “really, really, badly wanting” to be able to open Alan Wake With a quote from King himself. After all, there were plenty of references to the famous Maine author in the game, so why not go the extra mile?

Of course, Remedy got this quote from King, and according to Lake, the developer only had to pay $1 in order to use it. “It is my understanding that he wanted one dollar for us for the rights to use it. [It was] very generous. “

For those who are curious (and who don’t remember), the quote from King is as follows:

Stephen King once wrote, “Nightmares exist beyond reason, and there is not much fun in explanations; they contrast with the poetry of fear.”

In a horror story, the victim keeps wondering why—but there can be no explanation, and there shouldn’t be an explanation. The unanswered mystery is what stays with us the longest, and that’s what we’ll remember in the end.”

The quote in question is from a 2008 article King wrote for Entertainment Weekly titled “Why Hollywood Can’t Do Horror,” discussing the studios’ failures to properly capture fear while trying to appeal to market audiences.

Things have clearly changed a bit for King since that time, thanks to the two of them He. She Movies (among other King adaptations). It’s also not the first time that King and video games have been in the same sentence. Sierra Online Founders Roberta and Ken Williams They revealed last year that they tried to get King to play in a video game, but he turned it down. The result, however, was a classic Phantasmagoria.

Alan Wake 2 It is scheduled to be released on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and PC via Epic Games Store on Oct. 17.