As one of the most renowned authors in the literary medium, Stephen King has been publishing novels for more than five decades at this point and shows few signs of ever slowing down. This one-man factory has released about seven books and two short story collections in the 2020s alone, with another novel set to come out in October of this year.

Musical biopics are difficult to get right. Usually, they're under so much pressure to please fans that they bend the truth or leave out key facts, flattening complex lives into neat, digestible arcs. Rather than being real flesh-and-blood people with deep flaws alongside their talents, their subjects are more often like waxworks at Madame Tussauds (a charge that some have leveled at the recently released Michael).