RSS
Home
Steven Spielberg and Stephen King team up for TV mini-series
Print
Email
RSS
Subscribe
What do you get when you combine one of Hollywood's most acclaimed and successful film directors/screenwriters and the king of horror fiction writing for a project? Well, undoubtedly, most people will have some pretty high expectations. Both have been creating successful projects for decades, and now Steven Spielberg is set to transform Stephen King's novel, Under the Dome for a television audience. Dreamworks TV has signed on to produce the series.
Currently, Dreamworks is shopping around for a a home for the mini-series that will more than likely be on a cable network. The premise of the storyline revolves around a town that is isolated from the world when an invisible dome forms around it. Eventually, conflict and chaos settle in when the residents begin to lose hope. Faithful King followers may have already been drawn in by the book which was released on November 10th. (Although most who picked up the book may still be reading, as it is a hefty 1,000 plus pages.)
Fans of The Simpsons may recall a similar plot in The Simpsons Movie involving a dome created around Springfield; however that did not inspire the book as King has been said to have been working on the concept of the novel for decades.
Here's a peak at the book's summary:
On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener’s hand is severed as “the dome” comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when — or if — it will go away. Dale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a short-order cook, finds himself teamed with a few intrepid citizens — town newspaper owner Julia Shumway, a physician’s assistant at the hospital, a select-woman, and three brave kids. Against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a politician who will stop at nothing — even murder — to hold the reins of power, and his son, who is keeping a horrible secret in a dark pantry. But their main adversary is the Dome itself. Because time isn’t just short. It’s running out.
Related Articles:
Add a Comment
Single, married or something in between? Find what you need for Valentine's Day.
