If there’s one thing TV needs more of it’s Brian K. Vaughan. The comic book icon/television writer has an impressive track record. He’s worked on LOST and created comic book smashes Y: THE LAST MAN, EX MACHINA and THE RUNAWAYS. He’s also a dapper dresser.
That’s why so many Stephen King fans are happy to hear that Vaughan will be the one adapting King’s massive UNDER THE DOME for Showtime. It was announced that Steven Spielberg and Stacey Snider had secured the rights to the book awhile ago. More recently, we learned that the show had landed at Showtime. The network began a search for a suitable writer to take on King’s mammoth novel.
The book is about Chester’s Mills, Maine, a small town that suddenly becomes surrounded by an impenetrable force field. Cut off from the rest of the world, the residents of Chester’s Mills soon draw allegiances and fight for control of the small town. It was a fun book, long but never dragging, full of memorable characters and complicated and interwoven in a way that only a book (or TV show) can be.
With Vaughan involved, fans can assume that UNDER THE DOME won’t be a cheap, soft King adaptation. We want to see destruction and violence, dammit!
Thanks to Deadline for the story.
