New interview with King
Posted: May 29, 2013, 12:03
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Preview of Ghost Brothers
Posted: May 29, 2013, 11:30
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Title for episode 9
Posted: May 29, 2013, 10:56
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Mister Mercedes is more or less done
Posted: May 27, 2013, 14:40
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He continues to write accessible stories at a remarkable rate: A sequel to The Shining, titled Doctor Sleep, will be published in September, and he has “more or less” completed his first hard-boiled detective tale, Mister Mercedes. A series based on his 2009 novel Under the Dome will air on CBS later this summer, and his musical-theater collaboration with John Mellencamp, Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, will begin what King terms a “road show tour” of American cities in the fall.
Afterlife out in print
Posted: May 27, 2013, 14:16
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Thanks to Ed Yarb
Episode list
Posted: May 24, 2013, 14:22
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Episode 1.01 : Pilot
June 24, 2013
Episode 1.02 : The Fire
July 01, 2013
Episode 1.03 : Manhunt
July 08
Episode 1.04 : Outbreak
July 15
Episode 1.05 : Blue On Blue
July 22
Episode 1.06 : The Endless Thirst
July 29
Episode 1.07 : Broadcast Signal Intrusion
August 05
Episode 1.08 : Thicker Than Water
August 12
Episode 1.09 : The Fourth Hand
August 19
Episode 1.10 : Let the Games Begin
August 26
Episode 1.11 : Speak of the Devil
September 2
Episode 1.12 : Exigent Circumstances
September 9
Episode 1.13 :
September 16
New track from Ghost Brothers
Posted: May 24, 2013, 11:36
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Check it out here.
Joyland excerpt
Posted: May 24, 2013, 08:17
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Thanks to Troy Tradup
New interview with King
Posted: May 23, 2013, 16:02
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Parade has an exclusive interview with King. Here he tells us that he writes about 5 pages / day, why he keeps writing and more. Check it out here.
They also have some bonus questions that you can find here.
Win Joyland on audio
Posted: May 21, 2013, 10:58
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Step 1: Following Lilja’s Library on Facebook.
Step 2: Add the year when The Green Mile was first released.
Step 3: Head over to www.Liljas-Library.com Add the number of the month for when I started counting visitors for the site.
Step 4: Follow me on Lilja Says on facebook .
Step 5: Subtract the number of times I have interviewed Stephen King.
Step 6: Take the first two numbers in the numbers of followers Lilja’s Library have on facebook and add them.
Step 7: Add the number for the month the book version of Lilja’s Library was released.
Step 8: Subtract the number of copies the most expensive edition of Joyland was released in.
Step 9: Add the number for the day when Lilja Says joined facebook.
Step 10: Tell me the name of one King book released in the year you get after adding and subtracting these numbers.
You need to send in the answer (by email info[a]liljas-library.com) before June 3 to be entered in the contest. The winners will be announced on Monday June 4.
Good luck! Oh, and the ontest is open to anyone anywere!
What cover do you like best
Posted: May 20, 2013, 16:01
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King skipping E-book on new novel
Posted: May 20, 2013, 15:29
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Stephen King, e-book champion and veteran of roughly every major publishing format available, is opting to keep his new horror novel Joyland strictly as a paper book. "I have no plans for a digital version," King says. "Maybe at some point, but in the meantime, let people stir their sticks and go to an actual bookstore rather than a digital one." Does King count Amazon as an "actual bookstore," though? Because Joyland is available for pre-order there. Also: What does "stir their sticks" mean?
Thanks to Lou Sytsma
Justin Long replaced by Chris Evans?
Posted: May 20, 2013, 15:21
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Looks like Justin Long might be replaced by Chris Evans in The Ten O'Clock People. Here is the news from Dread Central.With Tom Holland's adaptation of Stephen King's The Ten O'Clock People currently making the sales rounds at Cannes, word has come that Chris Evans (Captain America, Snowpiercer) is in talks to replace Justin Long, who had to drop out due to a scheduling conflict.
Per Deadline, the plan is to shoot The Ten O'Clock People, an adaptation of King's short story of the same name that was first published in Nightmares and Dreamscapes in 1993, this fall in Atlanta. Holland, the 1980s horror maven who wrote and directed Fright Night and Child's Play and previously tackled King’s Thinner and The Langoliers, will direct.
Thanks to Ari
Mackenzie Lintz as Norrie Calvert in Under the Dome
Posted: May 20, 2013, 13:16
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With all of the news about CBS’ Under the Dome, Stephen King‘s new books, and Joe Hill and Owen King‘s new works, I completely have been neglecting to announce the emergence of a new significant Under the Dome actor. Well, actually, I was aware of her presence for months now. However, I was not sure how major her role was until recently. Her name is Mackenzie Lintz. This young actor is relatively new to professional acting, since she’s, well, so young and all. However, Mackenzie has already racked some impressive credits before getting cast as Norrie on Under the Dome. These small projects include The Hunger Games, and the TV series, Drop Dead Diva. She comes from an acting family. Her sister, Madison is an actor with credits like AMC’s The Walking Dead and Parental Guidence. Her brother, Matt, is a young actor who was a recent episode of NBC’s Revolution, which films in the same town (Wilmington, North Carolina) that UTD does. She also has another brother, Macsen, who appeared in Scary Movie 5. This is definitely her first Stephen King-related project.
Anniversary editions
Posted: May 20, 2013, 12:13
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PS Publishing To Release Special Slipcased Anniversary Editions of Stephen King’s Thinner & Skeleton Crew In The Spring of 2014
Next year (spring and late winter respectively), PS Publishing will release special slipcased Anniversary editions of Stephen King’s Thinner (originally published under the by-line of Richard Bachman) and Skeleton Crew.
Stepping up to the plate for artwork chores on Thinner is Les Edwards while multiple Jack Kirby Award-winning comic book artist Stephen R. Bissette is already going hell-for-leather on color spreads for Skeleton Crew plus art-headers for each story.
The publisher is planning on including Pete Von Sholly’s storyboards for Frank Darabont’s movie adaptation of The Mist.
Future updates regarding these two books will include: the details of introductions, afterwords, signatures, etc.
Joe Hill interview
Posted: May 17, 2013, 16:40
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Phil & Sundance
Posted: May 17, 2013, 12:34
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MAJOR UNPUBLISHED WORK NEWS! Recently, news of a previously unheard-of Stephen King work leaked to the internet. King experts didn't know about it. I didn't know about it. The only people who knew about it were Stephen King and the person for whom he wrote it (more details as I get them).
The work is called "Phil & Sundance", an unfinished 80-page novella Stephen King wrote in 1987. Numerous sources have checked and it is, indeed, a legitimate Stephen King piece of fiction. French website Club Stephen King posted a scan of the very first page, with a note from King on it, indicating that it might be a piece intended for young people. You'll see that page to the right (click on it to read it more clearly).
Right now, no one knows what the plans are for "Phil & Sundance." Will King finish it and publish it? Will he post the unfinished work to his site, a la The Cannibals? Will it remain unfinished and unpublished, like "Comb Dump"? No one knows. In any event, this is one of the most exciting Stephen King finds in the last decade, and you can expect the Stephen King community to be abuzz about it for awhile. As of right now, books by Justin Brooks (Stephen King: A Primary Bibliography) and Rocky Wood (Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished) are delightfully out-of-date.
New trailer for Under the Dome
Posted: May 17, 2013, 11:10
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New hope for DT movie?
Posted: May 17, 2013, 10:07
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After getting rejected by two studios on an ambitious multi-platform treatment of Stephen King’s seminal novel series The Dark Tower, Grazer, Howard, Akiva Goldsman and King streamlined their original ambition to adapt nine volumes into three features and two limited-run TV series. Now, Media Rights Capital is committed to make a single movie with Russell Crowe as the gunslinger Roland Deschain, with more movies coming if the first gets results. This isn’t set in stone, as Grazer tells me that he has just been approached by a Silicon Valley investor willing to finance Dark Tower as originally constructed, Now it’s a matter of deciding what path to take.
So, what do you Think? Will Russell Crowe be a good Roland?
Thanks to Herbert, Anders and Ari
More info about Hard Listening
Posted: May 17, 2013, 10:03
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This was released on King’s site:On June 18, 2013, a new eBook will be released by Coliloquy.com titled Hard Listening, an anthology written by members of the Rock Bottom Remainders. Of particular interest to fans of Stephen's: his contributions to the book include a new essay, a new short story, and several candid email exchanges. There is also a featured writing contest, in which several of the authors (including King) contributed short stories written in the author’s style. Readers then get to vote on which piece was actually written by King before seeing the results.
From the table of contents we learn that there will be letters and an essay from King called Just A Little Talent by Stephen King.
Read more here and check out an excerpt here.
Joyland review
Posted: May 17, 2013, 09:01
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King coming to Europe
Posted: May 17, 2013, 08:30
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We have the dates and cities all set up but the publisher needs to find venues in a couple of the locations. The tour in Europe is a lot farther behind in the planning other than having the couple of weeks in November set aside and that France and Germany will be the only countries involved this time around.
Thanks to Club Stephen King
A look at Carrie
Posted: May 16, 2013, 11:07
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New Ghost preview
Posted: May 16, 2013, 08:44
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Here is a new song from Ghost Brothers in Darkland County for you to check out.
John Cusack filming Cell in September
Posted: May 16, 2013, 08:38
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From the Press Release
On the eve of the Cannes Film Market, Benaroya Pictures and Miscellaneous Entertainment’s newly formed international sales company, International Film Trust (IFT), has added a new title to their Cannes slate - the Stephen King adaptation CELL, starring John Cusack - it was announced today by IFT President Ariel Veneziano.
IFT has acquired the remaining international territories for CELL, based on the novel by Stephen King, with Benaroya Pictures now on board to finance and co-produce.
CELL stars Golden Globe nominee John Cusack (2012) and will be directed by Tod "Kip" Williams (PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2, THE DOOR IN THE FLOOR).
Richard Saperstein (THE TOXIC AVENGER, HANCOCK, SE7EN) and Michael Benaroya (LAWLESS, MARGIN CALL) are producing along with The Genre Company's Brian Witten and Shara Kay. Marina Grasic and Jan Korbelin of Cargo Entertainment will executive produce.
When a powerful signal is broadcast across mobile networks worldwide, cell phone users' minds are instantly and dangerously re-programmed. Heading north through New England in search of his wife and son, Clay Riddell (Cusack) is joined by a group of survivors hoping to fend off the bloodthirsty and hyper-connected "phoners."
The film is currently in pre-production with principal photography set to begin in September.
Under the Dome scenes include fake gun fire
Posted: May 15, 2013, 00:33
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WILMINGTON, NC (WECT) – Crews with Under the Dome continue filming in the Wilmington area Tuesday.
Don't be alarmed if you hear gunfire near Church Street, some of the scenes could include possible fake gun fire.
According to film permits, the scene involves a character breaking into a house while another actor comes out of the home with a fake rifle to prevent the crime.
They will be working on the scene until 11:00 Tuesday night.
The locally-filmed mini-series is based on a Stephen King novel with the same title.
Under the Dome is about a fictitious town called Chester's Mill that finds itself surrounded by a mysterious barrier that won't allow people to travel outside of it.
The series will air on CBS in June.
The Dark Man: An Illustrated Poem
Posted: May 14, 2013, 23:23
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New ed. of The Shining
Posted: May 14, 2013, 14:35
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Titles of Under the Dome episodes
Posted: May 14, 2013, 10:14
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Episode 1.04 – “Outbreak”
An epidemic breaks out in Chester’s Mill, and the clinic is running out of medicine to treat people.
Episode 1.05 – “Blue On Blue”
A soldier outside the dome tells Barbie that the military is getting ready to leave, and that the government is afraid that the dome is starting to affect magnetic fields.
Episode 1.06 – “The Endless Thirst”
Store looting becomes a problem when the townspeople worry that water and food are running out.
Episode 1.07 – “Broadcast Signal Intrusion”
Joe and Norrie head for the center of the dome to try to find what's causing it. Harriet goes into labor.
More international covers for Joyland
Posted: May 13, 2013, 16:37
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Thanks to those who send these in.
Lilja's Library Exclusive Joyland news!
Posted: May 13, 2013, 14:13
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TO BE PUBLISHED IN SIGNED, LIMITED HARDCOVER EDITIONS
Hard Case Crime Announces Collectible Hardcover Editions
of Stephen King’s New Novel
New York, NY; London, UK (May 13, 2013) – Stephen King’s new novel JOYLAND, which will be published as a paperback original on June 4 by the award-winning Hard Case Crime line from Titan Books, will also be released a week later in three hardcover limited editions for collectors, two of them signed by the author. All three hardcover editions will feature both a new cover painting and nine black-and-white interior illustrations by the legendary Robert McGinnis, the painter responsible for more than 1,000 classic book covers as well as the iconic movie posters for Breakfast at Tiffany’s and the original Sean Connery James Bond movies. JOYLAND will be the first book ever fully illustrated by McGinnis, whose 70-year career includes induction into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame alongside Norman Rockwell and Maxfield Parrish. In a nod to the look of classic crime novels, the hardcover editions will also feature a map on the back cover, drawn by Susan Hunt Yule, of the Joyland amusement park where the story takes place.
The three hardcover editions will be available from Titan Books and can be pre-ordered starting today from the following web page: www.titanbooks.com/joylandlimitededition. There will be a numbered edition of 724 copies signed by the author, priced at $75 (£55.99), as well as a rarer lettered edition of just 26 copies priced at $200 (£150) that will be signed by the author and packaged in a handmade collectible traycase. An unsigned gift edition of 1,500 copies will also be available for $40 (£29.99).
Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, JOYLAND tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever. JOYLAND is a brand-new book and has never previously been published. One of the most beloved storytellers of all time, Stephen King is the world’s best-selling novelist, with more than 300 million books in print.
International covers for Joyland
Posted: May 13, 2013, 13:14
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Which cover do you like the best? Click on them to see where they are from.
Episode 17: Lilja, Lou Try To Untangle Themselves From The Mangler
Posted: May 12, 2013, 21:48
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Episode 17: Lilja, Lou Try To Untangle Themselves From The Mangler - of the Lilja & Lou Podcast is now out.
Last podcast we discussed the pinnacle of King movie adaptations with The Shawshank Redemption. This time we head the other way and descend to the depths of horrible film making to discuss The Mangler.
We hope you will all enjoy this episode and as usual we want to hear from you, good or bad, we want it all!
You can leave us comments, questions, topic suggestions at:
1) FaceBook - Lilja's Library
2) Twitter - @LiljaLouPodcast - please use the hashtag #LiljaLouPodcast
3) Audio Message - Speak Pipe widget on the right hand of the podcast page (send voicemail)
In this podcast:
1) 00:56 - Lilja and Lou Intro.
2) 01:31 - In The Death Room: Stephen King News
3) 13:35 - Reviews from The Night Shift: The Mangler
4) 30:38 - Preview for next podcast and Signoff
Intro Music - Don't Fear The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
Outro Music - Stand By Me - Ben E. King
Listen here or on iTunes.
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To Mother from Carrie
Posted: May 12, 2013, 21:32
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Two more illustrations from Doctor Sleep
Posted: May 11, 2013, 11:53
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For more, go here.
Stephen Lang enters 'A Good Marriage'
Posted: May 11, 2013, 11:49
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Stephen Lang joins the cast of A Good Marriage. Lang will play a retired investigator from the Maine Attorney General’s office who is obsessed with solving the crime.
Hill on Under the Dome
Posted: May 11, 2013, 05:50
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Well, we have received our first official review of the Under the Dome pilot…and it comes from none other than author Stephen King ‘s son, author Joe Hill. This means, A. the pilot is actually done, or at least in a fine cut at this point, B. Stephen King does not dislike it enough to not allow his son to see it, and C. Joe Hill likes to go public with nearly everything he thinks. The Under the Dome pilot does not air on CBS until June 24th, so it is not uncommon for a pilot to be finished this long before a premiere date. Pus, CBS gave an order to make Under the Dome a straight-to-series type of series. This means, that they decided to go forward with 13 episodes without even seeing a pilot. This used to never happen, especially. when shows like Michael Bay’s The Last Boat get a order and they decide to wait a full calendar year between shooting the pilot and the first regular episode. However, these days, anything is possible in television, even broadcast television. Of course, comparing it to Lost is a little unimaginative for a best-selling author, but I am sure he is not allowed to say much more. Conjuring up memories of Lost is probably what the Under the Dome producers want him to do anyway. Whatever works for ratings, I guess.
Plot info about Haven season 4
Posted: May 11, 2013, 04:49
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When Haven premieres this October, Colin Ferguson (Eureka) returns to Syfy playing William, a handsome mysterious stranger, whose secret agenda leads him to Audrey (Emily Rose).
Season 4 of Haven picks up six months after the devastating events of the Season 3 cliffhanger in which the town was pummeled by a violent meteor storm. Audrey and Duke (Eric Balfour) vanished into thin air leaving an injured Nathan (Lucas Bryant) marooned in Haven.
Big Jim just sold King a used car
Posted: May 11, 2013, 03:46
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Home Again from Ghost Brothers
Posted: May 11, 2013, 02:40
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Now you can take an exclusive first listen to "Home Again," a sparse acoustic number tinged with simple percussion and deep, chilling harmonies from Sheryl Crow, Dave Alvin, Phil Alvin and Taj Mahal.Listen here.
If you got nothing...
Posted: May 11, 2013, 00:30
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Read more here.
Ghost Brothers Road Trip
Posted: May 10, 2013, 23:34
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October
10 – Bloomington, IN – Indiana University Auditorium
11 – Louisville, KY – Whitney Hall *
12 – Knoxville, TN – Knoxville Civic Auditorium
13 – Asheville, NC – Thomas Wolfe Auditorium **
16 – Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium
17 – Evansville, IN – Aiken Theatre at The Centre
18 – Indianapolis, IN – Clowes Memorial Hall
19 – Akron, OH – Akron Civic Theatre
22 – Columbus, OH – Palace Theatre
24 – Ft. Wayne, IN – Embassy Theatre
25 – Madison, WI – Overture Hall
26 – Rockford, IL – Coronado Performing Arts Center
27 – Appleton, WI – Fox Cities Performing Arts Center
29 – Milwaukee, WI – Riverside Theatre ***
31 – Minneapolis, MN – State Theatre
November
1 – Sioux City, IA – Orpheum Theatre
2 – Ames, IA – Stephens Auditorium
3 – Davenport, IA – Adler Theatre
5 – South Bend, IN – Morris Performing Arts Center
6 – Grand Rapids, MI – DeVos Performance Hall
For more info, head over to King's official site.
Thanks to Lou Sytsma
Haven casting news
Posted: May 8, 2013, 16:24
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Former Eureka star Colin Ferguson is back at Syfy, joining the upcoming fourth season of the network’s drama Haven for a season-long arc. On the show, based on Stephen King’s novella The Colorado Kid, Ferguson will play William, a handsome mysterious stranger, whose secret agenda leads him to FBI agent-turned cop in the small town of Haven, Main Audrey Parker (Emily Rose).
Dome pilot ready?
Posted: May 8, 2013, 08:39
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New trailer for Under the Dome
Posted: May 7, 2013, 12:15
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New ending and a second season ?
Posted: May 7, 2013, 09:06
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1. What is this new ending...
2. What happens if there is a second season?
3. If there isn't a second season, will we get a satisfying ending?
"Under the Dome" is coming to CBS this summer, the story of a small town that suddenly finds itself encased in a giant dome. Creator Brian K. Vaughn teases the outline of the show for SFX, which he says will have three distinct sections.
"The first section is fate. The second section is fear. And the third section is fascism. I won't say who is the fascist or what exactly that means, but I think you get the sense that things are going to go wrong very quickly under the dome, and we're going to need an iron fist keeping order," says Vaughn.
He also reassures fans that people who have read the book won't necessarily know exactly what's coming.
"There's sort of a perhaps slightly different explanation for the dome," says Vaughn. "I nervously pitched Stephen King what a different version of the ending might be ... He said, 'I wish I'd thought of that.'"
"Which, I suspect, is just Stephen being kind," laughs Vaughn. "But he's been great."
Neal Baer, the showrunner, adds that the series can be seen as a parable for the times we're living in.
He tells Huff Post Live, "What does it mean for your town when you start to run low on food, fuel, medicine? What happens when the dome gets a little polluted when you're burning stuff for heat? It's not a big step to think about what that means for us, running low on fuel, running low on water, what about pollution."
"We can do a show that touches on these issues -- that's why we call it a parable for our time without being preachy or pedantic."
It all leaves us wondering -- what does a Season 2 look like? That's a little cart-before-the-horse, but CBS is not running "Under the Dome" as a miniseries, meant to only air this summer.
If it is successful, the show will be renewed for a second season. We wonder what happens then -- will there be more story to tell? And if it doesn't get renewed, will Season 1 wrap up the story in a satisfying way?
"Under the Dome" premieres Monday, June 24 on CBS.
Sneak Peek of Rose
Posted: May 7, 2013, 00:00
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Vincent Chong turned in the rest of his original color interiors for our special edition of Doctor Sleep by Stephen King, which sold out just one week after it was announced, and we thought you might like a little sneak peek at another of the main characters, Rose Flanagan, who is known as Rose the Hat by the True Knot, the nomadic family she travels with:
The Dark Tower comics coming to an end...
Posted: May 6, 2013, 22:55
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Marvel concludes its Dark Tower saga with this all-new one-shot!
How does the Gunslinger’s quest echo the legendary battle between a young Arthur Eld and a towering Lord Perth? Find out here!
Only 49 days left...
Posted: May 6, 2013, 11:55
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