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TV: Steven Spielberg and Stephen King Team for 'Under the Dome'
Friday, November 20, 2009


By: MrDisgusting
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It's a potent combination: Steven + Stephen. Steven Spielberg and Stephen King are joining forces to develop a limited series based on King's just-released supernatural thriller "Under the Dome." DreamWorks TV has optioned the book and is looking to set it up as an event series, likely for cable. You can read all of the plans below.

DreamWorks principal Stacey Snider was key in bringing the project to the company. Spielberg, King and Snider will exec produce along with DreamWorks TV chiefs Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey.Book, which has earned strong reviews as a return to form for the prolific author, revolves around the drama that unfolds after an invisible force field suddenly descends on a small vacation town in Maine. As the locals fight for their survival, the town descends into warring factions led by enigmatic characters.

DreamWorks is starting to meet with writers for the project. The plan is to set a writer before shopping the skein to prospective buyers.

Spielberg and King have worked together in the past, developing a screen adaptation of King's 1984 novel "The Talisman," on which Spielberg has had the option for more than 20 years. That project has been developed as a feature, and it came close to being done as a mini for TNT a few years ago until it was tabled for budgetary reasons.

The "Dome" deal continues a burst of activity on the smallscreen side for Spielberg and DreamWorks TV. Among the high-profile projects in the works is a series about the development of a fictional Broadway tuner for Showtime. Another Showtime contender is a costume-drama revolving around the Borgia clan, penned by Neil Jordan and with Robert Zemeckis also producing.

DreamWorks TV also produces the pay cabler's dramedy "United States of Tara," for which star Toni Collette won the lead comedy actress Emmy in September. "Tara" bows its sophomore season in March.

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nohandtyper
7:23am, November 20, 2009

I heard this last Wednesday in an interview that it was going to be made for TV. I also finished reading the novel earlier this week and would LOVE to see this made. I wonder how they will deal with such a huge cast of characters though, because even if each episode is an hour long, it'll be difficult to work with all 40+ main characters and 70+ secondary characters.


horrorchick81
9:33am, November 20, 2009

this sounds good


TwistedFate_L4
9:53am, November 20, 2009

40 MAIN characters? Wow. Hopefully they do it justice then. Most of King's adaptations/movies are always good. Can we get any news on the IT remake? Is it still in the writing stages?


cheluvshorror
10:08am, November 20, 2009

What great combination for a potential collaboration!


deadlover
11:32am, November 20, 2009

So it's the Mist, just bigger and with no monsters?


NixEclips
2:18pm, November 20, 2009

Wow. Two different groups of people going after each other? I've never read that, before. That's a true "return to form". I thought this bastard retired. WTF?


gorebath
5:14pm, November 20, 2009

Sounds just like STINGER by Robert McCammon. A good alien desends upon a town chased by another bad motherfukin alien. Bad alien puts big forcefield around town...two gangs inside fight while this abad alien is turning the townspeople into insecticles. Bad Alien wants good alien. Townfolk like good alien and want to persevere. Great book. King and Koontz can both suck.


El Vampiro
5:38pm, November 20, 2009

Just read the Bachman Books story, " The Long Walk." And that's the next, King movie I want to see produced. Most of his movies are too main streamed in my opinion.


ZombiePaul
6:08pm, November 20, 2009

This looks interesting. I'm not finished the book yet but the scope is pretty huge. I hear that King's short story "Home Delivery" (from Nightmares and Dreamscapes) is being made into a film as well.


ghostdaughter
6:39pm, November 20, 2009

that's good as can't wait


LordofDarkness
4:25pm, November 21, 2009

Fucking yawn. Unfortunately, both of these geniuses are well past their prime.


Captain Trips
5:42am, November 22, 2009

This... should be awesome!!


ollie23
8:43am, November 22, 2009

Looking to buy the book very soon and find it interesting that King came up with the idea in the late 70s and it's now only just being released so there has to be some good stuff in there so also looking forward to an adaptation if that is the case.


The Spook
10:19am, November 22, 2009

This reminds me of The Simpsons Movie...


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