Students at the Blaenau Gwent Film Academy are Adapting Stephen King’s Short Story ‘Stationary Bike’
As part of his “Dollar Baby” arrangement, Stephen King allows film students and aspiring filmmakers to adapt his short stories in exchange for a single dollar, and BBC reports today that students at the UK’s Blaenau Gwent Film Academy have taken King up on the offer with an adaptation of his Stationary Bike, published in 2003.
The academy was offered a Dollar Baby contract after writing to King.
“Being given an opportunity to bring one of Stephen King’s novels to life is crazy,” said 16-year-old Alfie Evans, who will work on the script along with GCSE drama student Cerys Cliff.
The short story is is about an artist cycling to lose weight after being told he has dangerously high cholesterol and entering a trance, where he experiences nightmarish scenarios.
Stationary Bike was originally published in the fifth edition of From the Borderlands in 2003. In 2008, it was published in King’s collection, Just After Sunset.
