Welcome to my message board.
New member registration has been disabled due to heavy spammer activity. If you'd like to join the board, please email me at MaxDevore at hotmail dot com.
New member registration has been disabled due to heavy spammer activity. If you'd like to join the board, please email me at MaxDevore at hotmail dot com.
Nightmares and Dreamscapes: the series
Sister networks Turner Network Television and TBS Tuesday unveiled extensive development slates that include a limited series based on short stories from horror-meister Stephen King and projects from Courteney Cox Arquette, Whoopi Goldberg and Cedric the Entertainer.
In addition to putting six traditional series in development, TNT has also started development on a limited series based on King’s short-story anthology, Nightmares & Dreamscapes. The network claimed that the project will feature scripts “by some of the television’s industry’s top scribes.”
In addition to putting six traditional series in development, TNT has also started development on a limited series based on King’s short-story anthology, Nightmares & Dreamscapes. The network claimed that the project will feature scripts “by some of the television’s industry’s top scribes.”
Comments
Bill Haber and his Ostar Enterprises are developing this limited series based on the book of short stories by Stephen King. The deal calls for Ostar to develop scripts for eight one-hour episodes. Mick Garris (The Stand, Sleepwalkers) and Mike Robe (News at Eleven, Guts and Glory: The Rise and Fall of Oliver North), Peter Filardi (TNT’s Salem’s Lot, Flatliners), Larry Cohen (Phone Booth, Cellular), April Smith (The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter) and Richard Christian Matheson (Mobius, Dean Koontz’s Sole Survivor) have signed to pen scripts for the series. NIGHTMARES & DREAMSCAPES is based on Stephen King’s 1993 anthology of 20 short stories, whose subjects include murderous revenge, dead rock stars, zombies, an evil toy and a wicked stepfather, to name a few.
I get both of those networks! :-)
As for the stories they will pick to adapt, there's a few I'm confident they won't adapt:
Dolan's Cadillac - Since it will probably be a feature film, starring Freddie Prinze, Jr. and Gabriel Byrne.
The Night Flier - Already exists as adaptation.
Chattery Teeth - Ditto.
"Sorry, Right Number" - Ditto.
The Moving Finger - Ditto.
My Pretty Pony - Doesn't fit in a show like this. Too "gentle" a tale.
The Fifth Quarter - This could be adapted, but I think they'll only pick the supernatural ones.
It Grows On You - Although supernatural, I think this'll be difficult to adapt. It's basically a mood-piece.
The Doctor's Case - A Sherlock Holmes story. Doesn't fit here.
Umney's Last Case - Probably too difficult, but could maybe work.
Head Down - Essay on baseball. Need I say more?
Brooklyn August - Poem on baseball. Nah...
The Beggar and the Diamond - Doesn't fit.
So that leaves us with:
Suffer the Little Children, Crouch End (so, yeah, they would have to shoot this in England), Popsy, Home Delivery (I want Romero for this one!), The Ten O' Clock People, The House on Maple Street, The End of the Whole Mess, You Know They Got a Hell of a Band, Sneakers, Dedication, and Rainy Season (although there's a dollar-baby version of this).
Finally, he provided a short update on the much-anticipated anthology series "Masters of Horror" that is expected to start shooting late April - "John Landis is doing the first, Dario Argento the second, Don Coscarelli the third, Stuart Gordon the fourth, and then Dante, Carpenter, Romero, Hooper, me, and the others in varying order, depending on their schedules. I'm Creator and Executive Producer. We're doing original stories, as well as stories by Barker, Matheson and Lovecraft."
It would have been great with Romero to direct "Home Delivery," but Garris kicks butt too.