On September 24, 1996, bookstores everywhere stocked the two tomes: Desperation by Stephen King, and The Regulators by Richard Bachman.
The Regulators is a work with a strange history, as Stephen King had previously made the call to “kill” Richard Bachman in the mid-1980s after his previously secret penname was exposed.
Should The Regulators make it into production and get released, that will leave only four Richard Bachman books without adaptations: 1977’s Rage, 1979’s The Long Walk, 1981’s Roadwork, and 2007’s Blaze.
Film and television fans have watched dozens of Stephen King stories and books get adapted by Hollywood over the years… but the industry hasn’t shown quite as much love to the author’s famed alter ego, Richard Bachman.