Stephen King sold Alan Wake’s inaugural healing cream for just $1

The original Alan Wake begins with a killer line that points straight out Master of Horror Stephen King, who in turn sold developer Remedy the rights to the song. In his schlocky, iconic W Unique in an Alan Wake waythe game begins with the self-exaggerating writer (aren’t all of you?) contemplating as scenic (and fanciful) Bright Falls as he swings through:

Stephen King once wrote that “Nightmares exist beyond logic, and there is not much fun in explanations; It is antithetical to the poetry of fear. In a horror story, the victim asks “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. My name is Alan Wake; I writer “.

Smash cut to Summer Game Fest 2023, said Sam Lake, president of Remedy instantly recognizable Eurogamer that he “really, really, badly wanted” to open the game with an actual quote from the horror movie GOAT. The quote in question comes from A 2008 Entertainment Weekly An article penned by King, lamenting the inability of film studios to adapt the medium for mass audiences.

Perhaps that was why he was so eager to sign his own words used on the project, something he would likely have paid a pretty penny for. Instead, the actual exchange of money appears to have been a formality, with the highly successful writer (400 million books sold) giving the project his blessing. “I understand he wanted a dollar for us for the rights to use it,” Lake says of the arrangement. [It was] very generous.”