As talked about above, “Knightriders” truly marks Stephen King’s massive display screen debut. King would go on to have cameos in lots of movie diversifications of his ebook. He would additionally workforce up with Romero for the now-classic horror anthology movie “Creepshow,” which not solely had a script by King, but additionally featured King in a significant position, that of poor, doomed farmer Jordy Verrill within the section “The Lonesome Demise of Jordy Verrill.”
However “Knightriders” marked the primary King/Romero display screen collaboration. It is value noting that King would not have a really massive position in “Knightriders.” His aptly-named “Hoagie Man” sits within the viewers throughout a motorbike jousting scene and chomps on a hoagie in a relatively gluttonous trend, a can of Budweiser close by. Carrying a paisley shirt what seems to be a baseball cap turned inside out, King has a number of temporary traces, and as he talks, items of hoagie fall out of his mouth. Truthfully, it is sort of disgusting. Additionally value noting: the girl sitting subsequent to King is definitely King’s spouse, Tabitha King. She’s credited as “Hoagie Man’s Spouse.”
You may see King’s cameo within the “Knightriders” clip beneath.
