I was lucky enough to get an invite from my friend Mike to go check out a special event with Stephen King last night in Toronto where David Cronenberg was conducting an informal interview with him on stage. The event was to promote King's new book Under The Dome , but they talked about plenty of other things including King's upcoming comic book series American Vampire , a screenplay he just wrote...
Stephen King's latest opus just came out (I'm only 200 pages into it so far!), but it's already headed to the small screen. Joining King on the DreamWorks project is Steven Spielberg. Currently, they're shopping a writer to adapt the massive book for television adaptation. DreamWorks is thinking an "event series," likely for cable.
Filed under: Programming , OpEd , Celebrities , Pickups and Renewals , Reality-Free Steven and Stephen are getting together. That is to say that Steven Spielberg and Dreamworks TV are working with Stephen King to make a television movie based on King's latest novel Under The Dome . The novel is about one of those small New England towns that King enjoys writing about suddenly finding itself trapped...
Stephen King here talks briefly about his near fatal accident and how he came to write one of his novels. This video is part of a talk he gave in Los Angeles.
Director Steven Spielberg is planning to bring Stephen King’s latest novel, Under the Dome, to television, reports CBC. DreamWorks TV announced Spielberg will be executive producer for a mini-series based on the novel, which hit stores Nov. 10. Under the Dome is the story of a town that has an invisible force field descend around it, [...]
Last night at Toronto’s packed Canon Theatre, fans of Stephen King were treated to a fifteen-minute reading from the author’s new novel, Under the Dome , and nearly an hour’s worth of typically funny anecdotes and keen observations during an on-stage interview with director David Cronenberg. Then King dropped a fan bombshell on the crowd by casually describing a novel idea he began...
We mentioned last week that Stephen King mentioned that his new book, Under The Dome, might end up as an HBO miniseries. Well, Variety now has word that Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks TV have optioned the book and are looking to set it up as a mini series, likely for cable. Spielberg will executive produce. The story is set in a small vacation town in Maine which becomes covered by an invisible force...
We mentioned last week that Stephen King mentioned that his new book, Under The Dome, might end up as an HBO miniseries. Well, Variety now has word that Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks TV have optioned the book and are looking to set it up as a mini series, likely for cable. Spielberg will executive produce. The story is set in a small vacation town in Maine which becomes covered by an invisible force...
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Raymond Carver, surely the most influential writer of American short stories in the second half of the 20th century, makes an early appearance in Carol Sklenicka’s exhaustive and sometimes exhausting biography as a 3- or 4-year-old on a leash. “Well,...
From the New York Times, Stephen King on Raymond Carver . I have been debating whether or not to buy a copy of Carver's 'Collected Stories' and 'Beginners' . Reading King's review, I think I should take a punt.
The Eight, Stephen King. Inspired by the time his three daughters were rowing. It describes the moment when the boat is held aloft just before the strok-side and bow-side rowers part to shoulder the boat. I interpreted this one quite differently before I read the catalogue. To me they were women bearing the weight of the world on their shoulders.
Two new books on Raymond Carver—a biography and a collection of stories—bring a "welcome and necessary corrective" to what we know of the short story master, writes Stephen King. Carol Sklenicka's A Writer's Life cuts Carver too much slack for his personal life—he was a "sometimes dangerous"...
I'm only about 100 pages into Stephen King's latest 1000+ page novel Under the Dome, but I do feel comfortable in saying that my first impression is that of 'so far, so...
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