Stephen King himself mentioned earlier this month that his latest book, the gargantuan tome “Under the Dome” (the book clocks in at a respectable 1088 pages) will be headed to the small screen, and now we know a little bit more about the project: besides King, the project will, in all likelihood, headed to a cable network in limited series (aka mini-series) form courtesy of Steven Spielberg and his Dreamworks studio.

Mr. King himself has announced, during a book signing for the so far fantastic “Under The Dome”, that “Under The Dome” will be hitting televisions via HBO. We are not sure when. “Under The Dome” recounts the tale of a small town in Maine that for some unexplained reason (I’m only 115 pages in) gets covered by an impenetrable dome force field. Also, King has finished writing the script for “The Cell”, a zombie book for the modern world about a viral telephone call that turns people into (at first) mindless machines of angry and then later, components of a giant hive mind. Stephen King is an awesome Sci-Fi writer.