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.
Variety reports that the TV division of Spielberg’s Dreamworks has optioned the King novel, and will be looking to create an “event series” based on it. This will be the second time King and Spielberg have worked together, counting the author’s “The Talisman”, which has yet to reach the screen, though IMDB.com has it listed as a possible mini-series in 2010.
King’s “Under the Dome” revolves around the drama that unfolds after an invisible force field suddenly and without warning descends on a small vacation town in Maine. Cut off from the rest of the world, the locals must fight for survival as the town descends into warring factions led by enigmatic characters, each with their own agendas.
Dreamworks TV will now look for a writer to adapt the mammoth book.
