I am – Hercules!!

Steven Spielberg is developing Stephen King’s engrossing new novel “Under the Dome” into a TV show!

The book's about a small town in Western Maine suddenly cut off from the rest of the world by a mysterious invisible force field.

No showrunner is attached, but hopefully they'll be VERY careful picking one out so we don't get another fucking "Defying Gravity," "FlashForward," "Stargate Universe," "V" or AMC "Prisoner."

Atop my wish-list is Ronald D. Moore, who was the first showrunner on HBO's "Carnivale" and knows well how to handle small-town sci-fi from his work on "Roswell."

No channel is yet attached, but I’m hoping for pay cable so we get to see all the gory mayhem! Spielberg has fine relationships with HBO (via "Band of the Brothers" and "The Pacific") and Showtime (via "United States of Tara").

And, though there's a lot of spectacular (and expensive-sounding) vehicular horror in the early chapters, I suspect "Dome" wouldn't cost as much as something like "Rome."

I'm only a little past page 200 of the book's 1,088 pages, but I think this could make a PHENOMENAL series. I'm thrilled Spielberg is thinking TV instead of a movie, and cable instead of broadcast.

I put it to you, talkbackers! Who should play military fellows Ken and Barbie, and evil dealership owner Big Jim Rennie, and plucky Republican newspaper editor Julia Shumway??

Find all of Variety’s story on the matter here!

Follow Herc on Twitter!!

So Close You Can
Smell The Kang!!

Play Them On A $127.25 Blu-ray Player!!

Hercules Calls Mark Millar’s
Fantastic Four Dark Genius!!