King has talked at length about the movies made from his books and how little he cares what they do to the story. In his view no matter how bad they are the book still exists and is available, and the making of the movies help keep the books available, and the book is what he wrote and cares about. To him the movies are basically ads for the books, ads he gets paid to allow them to make, so even if he doesn’t like the changes on a personal level he won’t say no because “the book still exists”.
I agree - he has always done that, but it seemed he went out of the way to praise the director’s re-write, and I faintly remember there was some stories in the media of King telling people and news outlets not to give away the ending.
It wouldn’t have sucked so bad if the story (from Skeleton Crew) was one of, if not my favorite, story of his. I was thrilled when I heard they were making a movie of it. The ending of the story, I thought, was perfect and defined “hope”.
However, the movie tosses that out the window with the ending.