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Who Should Play Barbie, Ken & Big Jim?? Steven Spielberg Developing TV Series Based On Stephen King’s New Novel UNDER THE DOME!!
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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??
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Looks like I'll have to pick this book up, STAT. Hope to read it before I sees it.
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How odd. It's good though?
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Some big Hollywood honcho expresses interest in making it into a mini series or movie. Half the time it doesnt happen. Remember Eli Roth was making Cell? Didnt happen.
And seriously, how many projects is Spielberg doing at the moment? He needs to stop multi tasking and focus on Indy 5!!!!! -
draft of book started decades ago...
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But what was the deal with King and the early vagina references? That was pretty funny. But the shout outs to random ass bands like LCD Soundsystem???? Some 50 year old dude doesn't listen to LCD Soundsystem?
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Yeah I've never read King before, but I picked this up A) $9 (thanks Herc) and B) I was like HMMMM a King take on the Simpsons movie? So if he started the draft of the book decades ago? Wasn't the draft of the Simpsons movie started decades ago as well?
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Nov 20, 2009 8:31:19 AM CST
You fuckers with the Simpsons thing
by danielplainviewonvacationinboston
Was the Simpsons Movie first draft started in 1976? No. Was its second and third drafts worked on in the 80s? No. Do the majority of talkbackers know what the hell they're talking about? No.
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probably the dumbest fucking thing I have ever heard on a talkback! Gonna get me a copy of this tonight, should have it read before back to work on monday!
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Me likey! Some strong stuff from the get-go, be interesting to see how visceral the show will be compared to the book.
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Why does he gobble up great Stephen King projects. The Talisman has been rumored for years and no one can do shit because SS has the rights.
I think Oliver Platt as the evil Jim Rennie would be a great fit. Out of his comfort zone as a typical nice-guy, but he's a great actor.
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to fuck, all over this website.
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I always picture the guy who plays Buddy Garrity on Friday Night Lights, because they're both duplicitous car dealers.
But I'd love to see Oliver Platt in "Dome" somewhere. Spielberg should just pillage the entire cast of "The West Wing." -
..that A. big jim was a shameless ripoff of GIJoe. b.Ken is Gay. ..and....
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Give me a chance to fucking read it first :D
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"A mysterious force field" does make more dramatic sense. To those that are upset with the Simpsons references, can you honestly tell me that cover illustration doesn't look exactly like that? Under that title? As for not knowing that the novel was started in the 70's... I didn't. I come here to learn that kind of thing, I suppose. I don't study up before I visit.
additional details about the book do help, since Ive only seen the TV commercials (which again, make it look like the Simpsons). It's a better King novel? He can be very hit-or-miss for me? -
And is this yet another Stephen King novel that needs at least 1/3 of the book edited out to improve the pacing?
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I wish King was only 50 so we would get that many more years of work out of him. He didn't hit it big until his early 30's and that was in the late 70's. I'm too lazy to look it up but I would put him at 63 or 64. As far as the music thing, he's got a history of being a fan of a wide variety of music. His Entertainment Weekly columns often had best of lists in different genres and end of the year lists. I think he listens to music constantly while he writes so that's a lot of time spent and he doesn't pigeonhole himself. What's really ackward (and embarrasing) is that every now and then I'll breeze through a James Patterson novel because it's a time killer that isn't going to eat up more than four hours. That guy and his nineteen ghostwriters sticks in such wierd pop culture references that it totally screws up the flow of the story when you have to stop and wonder who he asked to come up with that name or title.
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...when King completed the first draft back in '76. ABC did a whole special show on it hosted by Barbara Walters and Geraldo Rivera. If I recall correctly, the whole manuscript was written in 2 1/2 days while King was in LA looking at De Palma's final cut of 'Carrie'.
Maybe if you talkbackers (I'm not actually a "talkbacker". I'm above it all) would study some history you'd know that! -
But I vote for Gary Cole for Big Jim. A Sam Rockwell type for Barbie. It's interesting similar to The Simpson's Movie, except no one can get out, period (dome extends under ground as well as over) and it's doubtful even a nuke could crack it. But, the town goes to hell in a handbasket in no time flat.Although if it was really like the Simpson's movie, then Rev. Lovejoy would have had to been the bad guy, and would have had to murder people while saying "Praise Jesus!" and "Let's get knee bent!"I wonder if King could have trowled on his hatred of organized religion a little more thickly, because it wasn't really clear, with all the bad guys praying and quoting scripture between murdering, raping, and doing drugs, what his take on faithful religious people is.However, the big disappointment is the end, in which (SPOILER ALERT!!) almost everybody dies with little dramatic weight, the bad guy's death is dramatically inconsistent and anemic, and the dome is finally lifted by (Spoiler!) the supposedly Republican newspaper editor learning to beg shamelessly for her life from the mysterious intelligence that imprisoned them.As always, the prose is rich and compelling, and the pacing spot-on until the last few hundred pages, but the resolution left me wanting. So, I hope they fix it in the mini-series, because it needs fixing. And I hope the lighten up a little on the moral message about how pretty much all evil in the world is committed by crazy Religious right wing fruitcakes (everything from the poorly prepared town, to the fact the new fire engines were outside the dome, to the suddent scourge of crystal meth in the county, to the complete chaos that ensues in an unbelievable 4 days, to the rash of murders, to the final fire-filled cataclysm, is the fault of overly-religious right-wing Republicans). Plus, I think King has something against used car dealers. I think that could be toned down just a wee bit--it gets to a point where the sophomoric moral message gets in the way of the story. Sort of like Michael Crichton did with the environmental movement in State of Fear.
It is not a better King novel, Chewtoy, just a longer one. Recent novels like Bag of Bones, Duma Key and even Insomnia were much better overall books. Classics like the insanely brilliant Green Mile, and the pure epic sweep of The Stand, and even his out-of-his-comfort-zone fantasy novel, Eyes of the Dragon, remain untouched. His recent short story/novella collection, After Sunset, is also a better read on the whole. But Big Jim is a great character (despite the eventually tedious religious stuff--"Let's get knee-bent!" and it is a great read for most of the overly-long novel.That's my opinion, and I'm sticking to it. -
. . . having not read the book yet. That said, REALLY? Of all the cool King stuff Spielberg picked THIS?
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I remember reading it during the day because at night I was too scared.
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He could die next year, but he could also live to be 90. I'm betting on 90. Expect a lot more out of him, and probably better than Under the Dome. Another Dark Tower novel is in the works, I know that. And expect a lot of "nearly finished" posthumous material to make it's way out after his death--at least, there will be something, the man writes all the time. He's a frickin' machine.
But we shouldn't be greedy. The man gave us The Stand, which would be enough almost by itself. But we also got The Shining, Salem's Lot, Christine (a great book, if you haven't read it recently), Eyes of the Dragon (brilliant), The Green Mile (super brilliant, almost a perfect novel), Bag of Bones, Insomnia, Firestarter (not great, but still better than a lot of the work others produce) , the Bachman books with the great Long Walk, The Running Man, and Thinner, Dreamcatcher (despite the over-the-top, hyper-religious antics of the crazy commando bad guy) was still a gripping story.
All his short story collections reveal some gems. The Dead Zone was not his best, but still worth a second read (I listened to it again just recently). Hearts in Atlantis was great, especially the first one. If you haven't listened to it read by William Hurt, treat yourself sometime and go to Audible.com and get it. And, I dunno about you, but I loved From a Buick 8.
Danse Macabre was a great non-fiction book on the history of horror from an early 80s perspective. On Writing is not entirely a book on writing, but is extremely engaging, and worth a read for anybody who wants to write much of anything (sometimes, I think King ought to read it--his editing might benefit from his own advice, sometimes).
And I'm not a big fan of the Dark Tower (I consider the epic saga of Roland Deschain his least impressive stuff), but some people live and breathe it. I loved the Talisman as a kid (it was my favorite book for a while), and it's still not bad. I thought Black House was terrible, but sometimes you can't go home again.
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Everytime i try to pick a favourite, another pops into my head.
The Dead Zone is probably my favourite, followed by the Shining, then The Stand.
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The Simpsons TV show the movie the novel the live action real battle on film...
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And it's kicking major ass and building to some crazy shit. It definitely feels more vintage King and is a cool concept. When I first heard the premise I instantly thought of The Simpsons movie and had to laugh but they are obviously very very different. Buddy Garrity IS Big Jim Rennie, there is no discussion to be had there. He's the guy, hands down.
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Seriously. How many times has the Talisman started and stopped? Where is the project even at now? Last AICN reported, Talisman was back to being a 6-8 hour mini for TV, based on a very faithful script. Lets hope the Talisman comic books coming out jump-starts that mini series. And whats the deal with the Dark Tower now that JJ and Lindolf no longer have the balls to bring it to the screen? Come on AICN, bring us the Stephen King news we really want to hear!
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But this may not happen. Think I remember Speilberg optioing The Girl That Loved Tom Gordon few years ago. May be wrong, but if it wasn't Speilberg it was somebody else showed interest. Also, as someone said The Talisman seems to b e going nowhere fast.
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Stargate Universe is good!!!! Robert Carlyle gives one of the best perfomances i have ever seen on television!!!
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and I'm pretty sure it was on something run here on AICN. Don't you all read eachothers columns?
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The obvious choice would be John Goodman. Whoever they cast is a lucky, lucky actor because Big Jim is a kick ass role.
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Harry, why dont you call Frank Darabont and ask him if he's interested in Talisman or Dark Tower. Then ask him if he still plans on filming The Long Walk. You have the connections, use them!!
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But can they really make a movie out of that? Great audiobook, though. Might make a good BBC audioplay. But a movie? That's a tough translation to swallow.Gary Cole for Big Jim Rennie. When he breaks the doc's hand under the heel of his shoe, I saw Gary Cole as clear as day. He'd be kick ass in that role.
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...but I'm pretty sure Vernor Vinge did a couple books based around the same dome/bobble idea. Google "Peace War" for example. Spielberg's interest has me wanting to pick this one up.
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Nov 20, 2009 10:59:17 AM CST
No Gandolfini for Rennie? For shame.
by thisisthestupidestfuckingthingiveeversee
If they're gonna do this on HBO-- and they should-- my money's on Gandolfini for Rennie. How the hell does one not picture him in that role? Also, Nathan Fillion for Barbie (or maybe Robert Downey, Jr.) and Edie Falco as Shumway. Jamie Lynn-Siegler for the role of "girl who sits on my face and reads the book out loud to me".
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I was saying 50 because I think thats how old the character in the book is. And he's like some farmer in the middle of a small town? Thats what I didn't get.
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Garret Dillahunt (Deadwood, Last House on the Left, The Road) for Barbie. It wouldn't be much of a stretch for him. Also the breaking bad kid/also Last House on the left Aaron Paul for the role of the teenager that does something crazy in the opening chapters, I don't recall his name.
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For the sheriff, that role just screams him.
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At me for linking King's idea to the Simpsons. I realize that there is probably NO connection, its just that A) I've never read a King Book. B) It fucking came out after the Simpsons movie, sure he may have wrote it forever ago, I don't really care about King's past. I don't follow him so why do I need to go LOOK up when a book was first concevied (its this the book that he has been waiting technology to catch up with him or soemthing?). C) It didn't stop me from buying the book, it made me want to buy the book. I really like it so far, and may lead me to read some of his older stuff. Its just a funny coincidence.
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with the right talent.
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Garret Dillahunt would be a good Barbie. Kristen Davis from Sex in the City or Diana Lane for Shumway. Kelly Preston for Linda Everett. Taylor Lautner as Junior. Or maybe Shia LaBeouf.
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I know he's probably too old for the role. Don't care.
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They both have the same surface-level concept. Just because the comparison is easy, obvious and lazy doesn't make it less accurate.
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Why not make it completely meta?
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...Will Ferrell in his Ashley Schaeffer get up from Eastbound and Down as Rennie!! Flowing, white-haired wig and all!
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he named a character after Alf's last name? and Alf Clausen is the composer for Simpsons....see it IS all connected.
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Not Diana. Stephen King should cameo as Sloppy Sam.
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Check out the deleated scenes from Say Anything.
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For cameos as the two old ladies. (SPOILER: Rue to be the one that lives the car Crash).
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Pointless. Pretentious. Non-sensical twattle! But Adrienne Barbeau was milftastic
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Sarah Clarke as Shumway? Kevin Corrigan for Barbie?
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sorry...just trying to make some people's heads explode.
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Nov 20, 2009 12:32:27 PM CST
This'll happen right after Lincoln and Interstellar
by fa_tass_dinomolester
IE, never! But at least Spielberg's still in the business of putting out press releases every other week.
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It's a great concept, but takes fucking FOREVER to get to it if his other books are any indication - loved CELL, but God did it need editing! - so, before I devote weeks of my life to this mammoth task, could someone just tell me what the dome is, and why/how it got there?
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Well see, there is a massivly polluted lake in the Mill, and the EPA decided to put a dome around the city. Then evil EPA head Russ Cargill get the president's permission to have the city destroyed, but its up to Homer to save the town from destruction. Which he does in an amazing motocycle ride to the top of the dome to stop a bomb.
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Where's the love for SAMCRO? The finale to an absolutely captivating season is in a couple of weeks, you've gotta put on something for that.
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An alien/extra-dimensional ant farm. A play toy for some extra-dimensional children. This is barely explored, and never made credible. Shumway gets them freedom, after 98% of the town dies, by begging for it, and it happens to be when only one of the extradimensional alien girls is in the "playroom" where the alien "ant farm" device is located. It's totally lame.
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I think Sarah Clarke's too young for Julia. Maybe not. I'm 600 pages in and I'm not entirely clear on how old she is.
John Goodman as Big Jim
Ben Foster as Renny Junior
Kevin McKidd or Thomas Jane as Barbie (sorry Herc. Not feeling Corrigan)
Piper Laurie as Brenda Perkins
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And since we can't do Invisotext in the talkbacks, what's a fella to do? In any case, it's completely lame, so it's not like it's spoiling any great plot point, because it sucked as a plot point,
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Shuman is in her mid-40s, maybe a little older. She was in 4th grade in 1974, I think, so that should make her 41? But if not, then close to that. Barbie is 30/in his earlier 30s.
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Be okay as Shumway, if Diane Lane wasn't available. I still say Gary Cole for Big Jim (yes, I know, Gary Cole isn't fat, I'm just saying he'd be great, anyway). John Goodman would be good too, tho.
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Damn i thought you were writing something funny at first! Why'd I read that. I hope thats not the end.
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Big Jim's used cars. Driving around in a big black Hummer. Awesome.
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Trust me, its perfect.
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But you wouldn't have felt any better reading it unspoilt. Trust me. The pleasure in the novel is the pacing (up until the end), the prose, the dialog, and the characterizations. Yes, it is a spoiler, but so is me telling you there's some dog crap on the sidewalk right before you step in it.
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For Barbie. Can't go back in time, I know . . . John Voight, circa Midnight Cowboy. I keep thinking of actors from the early 70s for some reason. Nick Stahl for Junior Rennie?
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So, is it Mr Burns' fault then?? ;D
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Do you know who Garret Dillahunt is? Because he is those people you want.
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Cheers for that. I'm sure it's a good read, but with a lame ending like that, I'm not sure I can be bothered. Sounds almost as lame as the conclusion to KINGDOM HOSPITAL...
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Adrien Brody as The Chef. Ian McShane as Big Jim. Aaron Paul as Junior.
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Non-existent plot, crappy acting, inane dialogue, and completely bland and interchangeable characters. If they wanted to do that, they should have kept making Atlantis. It's Voyager/Enterprise all over again, except actually WORSE!!! Robert Carlyle, David Blue, and the production design are the only worthwhile things about this horrendous clusterfuck!
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That's my answer.
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should be "Big Jim". Brad Leland. That's who I pictured in the book while I was reading it. Too much typecasting?
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He always does. That's what made the miniseries version of The Shining suck, that and the prima donna kid playing Doc.
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...the ships stops next to a deadly planet of killer toilet plungers because Rush can't get the only toilet they've found on the ship to unclog. The show's starting to be like the starship version of 'This Old House' to me. A fixerupper project each week.
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And No Country for Old Men. He doesn't seem quite right, to me, but I've been wrong before. Stephen King's mini-series of The Shining was very loyal to the book, and just didn't work on screen. There's so much tension built up in the book via thought process and internal dialog that it just doesn't quite translate. Plus, phrases like, "Take your medicine, you young pup, you young cur," barely work on the page and certainly didn't work in that very special episode of Wings.
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The whole show should have been about the long winding and unexpected paths to their fates seen in their FFs. That no matter what they tried to do it all led to those 2m17s. Not the destination but the journey stuff. But then Jett goes and offs himself and suddenly none of the rules apply.
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of a novel before someone makes an inferior TV miniseries of it.And of Christ's sake I hope Spielberg gets Frank Darabont involved with Dome.
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He looked more scheming than haunted. His acting style is just like his acting career, a 'cursed' failure.
And Mick Garris has given every SK adaption a comic book look about it.
Rebecca DeMorany was great though. Anytime she shows up in tight jeans or in a nightie she's got my vote.
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Go watch Deadwood. He's a fucking terminator in Sarah Conners, you can't really base his acting on that? And his role was the second smallest role in No Country, and both actors had throw away roles that added nothing to the movie.
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Then maybe I'll try to read the 1,088 pages of Under The Dome. Personally, I can't believe the Dark Tower series all continue to get longer than the last. 300 pages, then 430ish, then 660, then 720, then 900some. Holy Crap. They are fantastic though. Loving every page. Needs to be an HBO series, would suck as any type of film series. Needs at least seven 10-12 Episode seasons. Anyway, hope this gets made on HBO, sounds cool.
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Where he talks about Under the Dome. He talks about it having an "environmental message". I've read the book. What was the environmental message? Thank goodness for cold potatoes? Don't enclose a small down in an impenetrable force field?
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Never have. Look, I'm gonna take your word for it. Garret Dillahunt it is.
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1968 movie called The Touchables...Hey, it had a giant dome in it!
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Nov 20, 2009 2:49:55 PM CST
Or Explorers with River Phoenix, Ethan Hawke, and Forgotten Boy
by tangcameo
That had an impenetrable bubble although not the size of a whole town.
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CRAP + SHIT TOGETHER AT THE SAME TIME! HOW AWESOME IS THAT!
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Unless you meant Stephen fucking King. Then both are acceptable.
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The only time he didn't play a creep or crazy that I can remember, but he was good in it.
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I had to look that up. He was in Gremlins 2: The New Batch as Alex the Yogurt Jerk, as well.
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Could work in Under the Dome. Shaloub could be Romeo Burpee. Thomas Haden Church could be the Sand Man. I mean, the guy who owned the grocery store (young for that role, but like that doesn't happen all the time).
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...I'm still washing Spiderman 3 out of my eyes.
If it were Mick Garris again we'd end up with Rebecca Bernard and David Schramm (and yes I had to IMDB that). -
his laundry list. I'm still waiting for it to come out. Preferably, the 2,700 page unabridged version.
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In my head as I read it he could have played either of the main male characters.
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...stolen entirely from Twilight Zone episodes.
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Yup the plot of this sounds more like an old Outer Limits episode. Wasn't there an episode where a town was surrounded by fog and no one could leave or enter? I know King cited in the past the Zone and Outer Limits as big influences.
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sorry TNT gave up on The Talisman. Someone should still pick up the reins and make that as a miniseries.
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than it does The Simpsons
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set in the future with Zod having powers under the red sun.
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tvseries,where a whole town is teleported by aliens in their planet,in order to experiment on them before they invade earth.
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nobody could get in or out,and later it was teleported.
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If that's the ending, it's a rip-off of the TZ episode where the couple wakes up in a deserted town and discover at the end that they've been placed in a "Human Environment" to be pets for a giant alien child...
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Nov 20, 2009 5:23:34 PM CST
Use the casts from all the HBO shows that are now off the air
by crazybubba
like everyone else does--Deadwood, the Wire, the Sopranos, Rome, Carnivale etc, etc. How many Deadwood actors are on True Blood now?
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John Goodman
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Only acceptable choice is John Goodman. He was born to play it.
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Mmmmm....new book smell. Is there anything better? (If you guys say "pussy", I'm going to throw my book at you and that fucker will leave a mark).
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...and Viggo Mortensen for Barbara. Frances Sternhagen for Brenda. Lindsay Lohan for Angie McCain, just so we can see her brutally murdered in the first 5 minutes!
Others.... don't know. I'm about page 500 myself. The kids are tough, so I'll hold off on them.
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But I can't see Sam Rockwell OR Robert Downey Jr. as Dale Barbara. C'mon...Viggo could own that role. Gandolfini might work for Big Jim, but could he pull off the Ultra-Right-Wing pseudo religious dialogue? SPOILER WARNING *** (sort of) **** Loving the book, although last night I did get a Tommyknockers flashback. Nothing explicit, just this one scene I feel like I've read before in that early work. Won't say more...this is a book that should NOT be spoiled, IMHO.
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Amazing characters, very well written.
If the purpose/origin of the "dome" is that important to you, then you will probably be disappointed with the ending. For me it is a side point and not what I will remember from the novel.
Good recent comparison would be District 9, clearly where the aliens are from, why their ship broke down in Earth, is not that important to what the movie is all about. -
Because my eyes get kind of tired after a long work day. I just finished the cell and "Stephen king collection." I hope this is better than the cell.
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is just grim. Like hysterically, inapproriate grim. I sort of want to buy one so I can laugh & be uncomfortable at the same time.
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Mick Garris needs work...
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im still waiting for:
bruce willis' bag of bones
george romero's girl who loved tom gorden
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Nov 20, 2009 11:42:41 PM CST
Pamela Anderson and Steve Carrell with blonde hair
by beyondthunderdome2girls1cupbillcosby
pow!
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that's a comedy?
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Think about it.
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A fun read, but I didn't think it had nearly the epic feel or breadth to it that The Stand or It had. I've thought for a long time that the latter--in the right hands--would make a PHENOMENAL HBO miniseries. Better than Under the Dome, I think. Guess that's not going to happen, though...
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'Survivor Type' is a hilarious read if you're not a self-cannibalizing junkie.
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Purely a co-incidence of course but the Doctor Who story "The Daemons" had a town enclosed by an energy barrier which no-one could get through.
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Nov 21, 2009 7:34:44 AM CST
Twilight Zone > all the other stupid shit you guys bringup
by alientoast
And Twilight Zone kinda did it first with "It's a good life". FFS just stfu. Who cares who "ripped off" who?
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HANKS!!! Seriously, the character needs to be someone the audience can like in spite of his absolute hateful, hypocritical, greedy evil. If the town trusted him all those years, even with misgivings, we have to.. a little at least. They'd probably never get Hanks, but Spielberg could talk him into it if anyone could. It would be a challenge, and would pull in a huge audience. As for the rest of the cast? Hard to say. But please, whoever scripts the damned thing.. replace King's teen dialogue. It always sounds like he fell asleep in 83 and never woke up. It'd not very "rad" or even "awesome". Re-write FTW.
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It was called "Dreamcatcher". I seem to recall it involved people being infested with telepathic aliens called "shit weasels" which blasted out of people's asses, and the townspeoople were kidnapped by Colonel Kurtz from "Apocalypse Now" but were saved by a guy with down syndrome who happened to be a benign alien. In King's defense, he came up with the idea after his car crash in 2002 and was strung out on morphine at the time.
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Hanks would be a dream choice, I could never see him doing it. John Goodman and Gary Cole would be great actors for the part, no doubt, but I feel like someone who really fills the viewer with a sense of trust and sympathy (false trust and sympathy) would better fit the character.
Though, considering the character is based on Dick Cheney, maybe I'm being silly.
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Even cable has learned these sci-fi shows don't bring in audiences, that America despises sci-fi and fantasy as a general rule, and won't watch specifically BECAUSE it's sci-fi. I'll put this in the pile with other "defintely HAPPENING!" things like the JUSTICE LEAGUE movie and the DEADWOOD revival film and TINTIN.
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Is the "alien ant farm" idea REALLY how it ends? Because if it is, I just saved myself the cost of the book and the time to read it, because I have zero fucking interest in such a tired idea.
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...Tintin IS actually happening.
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Read the book. Not Shakespeare but much better than the movie. Where the guy with Down's Syndrome is not an alien. Which was also where he was not an alien.
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Found myself hoping it was a mutant form of E.coli. Big Jim is just silly. Half of the characters should be meth users. The dome should be a perfect sphere. Prestile stream should flood the borders of the dome.Other than that, not bad.
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You and Rantbreath need to go discuss V FOR VENDETTA. I hear it's relevant to your crowd. Anyway, TINTIN is about as "happening" as so many other Spielberg projects. The point is, if you recall, they tried to get ANY AMERICAN STUDIO WHATSOEVER to fund it and then the most powerful man in Hollywood was given a FUCK YOU cheque by every major studio beause they ALL recognize that Americans FUCKING HATE ANYTHING GENRE. Fuck off.
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So baad.
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It starred Michael Cole from the Mod Squad and it was in 3-D to boot...
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is finally affecting his work. it ruins his writing.
and the ant farm thing is beyond ludicrous -
hear me out. just picture Tom Hanks, a little chunked up (think Charlie Wilson's War), giving Andy Sanders (played by Stanley Tucci) that classic Tom Hanks grin and chuckle, but with this malevolent "you will obey me" look in his eyes. I think it could work.
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in the movie no less
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it'll be interesting to see how they do an entire tv series based on the book because although long the book does eventually have an ending
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I just finished it yesterday as a matter of fact and I loved it
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I'm not ready to render an opinion on the book, but I've never read anything of that length so fast.
if they're doing a TV series, they should just roll the entire cast of FNL over to this, not just Brad Leland (no one else can play Big Jim. I'm pretty sure King was watching FNL while he was writing this.) Jeremy Renner would be good for Barbie. most of the actors people are suggesting are too old. Ed Harris for Cox. he's already got experience playing army types in King adaptations. -
That I told my mother to pre-order this book for me for christmas so she could get it cheap. A few weeks before Christmas the book was sent to my mothers house and she wouldn't give it to me until Christmas. The wait was almost unbareable. Loving the book though.
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that you whined to the internet about it
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Barbie: Skeet Ulrich. He's already basically played the role in Jericho, so he's got plenty of practice.
Julia: Elizabeth Mitchell from Lost/V. She's got the 'tough, independent' woman routine down.
Randolph: Tim Omundson, who plays Lassiter on Psych
Sanders: Max Wright, the dad from Alf. Saw him a cameo on something shorty before starting UTD and he stuck in my head.
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Big Jim…John Goodman
Junior… Ben Foster
Barbie… Jeffery Donnavan
Rusty… Jason Lee
Julia… Bebe Neworth
Carter… Jeremy Renner
The Chef… Clifton Collins Jr.
Andy Sanders… Matthew Frewer
Cox… Brian Cox
Jackie… Katey Sagal
Linda… Rachel Weisz
Andrea… Mimi Rogers
Burpee…Peter Stromare
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Now that I read back that was horrible post that I sent. Sorry to all. I atleast know Orcus will read this.
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