From Thehorrorchannel, "Finally we have some more cool stuff to look at from the upcoming TNT series Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King, the miniseries/anthology that will be debuting this summer. TNT has setup an official site for the show, and with it a whole slew of pictures have shown up which the cool kids at Lilja's Library were nice enough to show off to the world.
Various entries are featured, like "Umney’s Last Case" starring William H. Macy, "You Know They Have a Hell of a Band" starting Stephen Weber, "The Road Virus Heads North" starring Tom Berenger, and a lot more. The shot here is from the "Band", which was one of my favorite King stories when I first read it back when the Nightmares & Dreamscapes collection was released.
Check out TNT’s Nightmares & Dreamscapes site for more info on each of the episodes. The first entry, "Umney's Last Case" will show without any commercials and is set to debut on our around June 15th."
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Excellent!
Each decade has its own Stephen King collection; this was probably my second favorite. They go:
Night Shift (1970s)
Skeleton Crew (1980s) (The worst) (Naturally)
Nightmares and Dreamscapes (1990s)
Everything's Eventual (2000s)
The flavor of N+D is uniquely contemplative and nasty; the stuff is as vicious and chilling as the best of Skeleton Crew and as humanistic as the stuff in Night Shift. By the time of Everything's Eventual he'd started publishing in The New Yorker and he'd won the Booker Prize, so, you know, my criticism of the great man is basically rendered irrelevant (but there's at least one stunner in there).
I've said it before, I much prefer his short stories than his 2000 page novels (although his early stuff is fantastic). There's some great stuff in N&D, which could translate well in an anthology show if the dread is properly maintained. I'm always a bit wary when people try to take on King's material, mostly because the bad film translations outweigh the very few good ones.
It's usually HIS fault when the movies go bad (either his script or some other untoward influence from King himself). The man has absolutely no idea how to get ideas onto celluloid. He's completely hamfisted at it; as inept and misguided as he is gifted on paper. It's amazing, really; in his nonfiction commentary he admires movies like "Rosemary's Baby" and "Halloween" but somehow when he's in control you get complete crap like "Pet Sematary" and the TV "The Shining." It's like listening to Eddie Murphy sing. When they shove him out of the room, you get "Shawshank Redemption" and "The Dead Zone," but when he's involved it's "The Stand" on televsion with Kareem Abdul Jabar in front of a matte painting.
That's so true! For years he's been saying that The Shining sucks, and then he goes ahead and makes a version that actually sucks. Didn't he direct Maximum Overdrive? Bleeeechh!
I'm actually still cracking up at the image of them shoving King out of the room.
My buddy Jed used to do this fantastic Stephen King impression wherein he would end an email with "If you know what I mean...and I think you do, my friend."
I was about to say "Night Shift's the worst? I loved those stories!" when I realized that wasn't what you said.
"For years he's been saying that The Shining sucks, and then he goes ahead and makes a version that actually sucks." That is hilarious, both the quote and the concept.
It's also like when certain actors do "their" stuff, and you get bland, cheesy affairs like Sean Connery's "Entrapment" and DeNiro's "The Score." Although that isn't quite the same puzzle, because the best actors can be complete idiots.
I thought Jordan said that Night Shift sucked as well! I was surprised because SOOOOOOOOOO many good stories come from that book. To this day I can't get the image of the hand with eyes out of my head, yuck! Shudder.
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