The backstory: King originally began work on his sprawling eco-parable bestseller in 1976, then shelved the project for a couple decades before picking it up again and ultimately publishing the novel in 2009. In the meantime, 20th Century Fox released The Simpsons Movie in 2007 with a broadly comic take on the same concept. Fox’s series The Simpsons then mocked the coincidence in a 2010 episode where Monty Burns begins to seal Springfield with a giant dome while brandishing a copy of King’s book before realizing this has already been done once before.
Now the upcoming series version of Under the Dome will throw a reference back to The Simpsons in its third episode. “We do make a reference to The Simpsons Movie,” showrunner Neal Baer told EW. “We have a ‘recharge party’ in episode 3 and the kids are watching it.”
looks like it could be cool. I know the book has some dark stuff in it (haven't read it), do you think it will suffer being on network tv vs say, HBO/cable?
looks like it could be cool. I know the book has some dark stuff in it (haven't read it), do you think it will suffer being on network tv vs say, HBO/cable?
The search for the next Lost continues. I wish I was an ABC exec
I kinda wanted to read the book, but lol 1300 pages, nope.
fixedI kinda wanted to read the book, but lol 1300 pages, nope.
It actually goes pretty quickly into the trash.