{"id":105870,"date":"2020-11-06T01:00:17","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T22:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/stephen-king-on-under-the-dome-and-mr-mercedes-film\/"},"modified":"2020-11-06T01:00:17","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T22:00:17","slug":"stephen-king-on-under-the-dome-and-mr-mercedes-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/stephen-king-on-under-the-dome-and-mr-mercedes-film\/","title":{"rendered":"#Stephen King On Under the Dome and Mr. Mercedes \u2013 \/Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Stephen King On Under the Dome and Mr. Mercedes \u2013 \/Film<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Stephen King<\/strong> isn\u2019t shy when it comes to talking about adaptations of his work. Heck, King has spent the last 40 years complaining about Stanley Kubrick\u2019s\u00a0The Shining<\/em>. And now, the master of horror has opened up about two recent adaptations \u2013 the TV shows\u00a0Under the Dome<\/em> <\/strong>and\u00a0Mr. Mercedes<\/em><\/strong>. Both shows ran for three seasons, and in King\u2019s eyes, only one was successful:\u00a0Mr. Mercedes.<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019m a pretty big Stephen King fan, but I did\u00a0not<\/em> watch\u00a0Under the Dome<\/em>. In fact, I don\u2019t think I know a single person who did. But the show ran for three seasons, so it must\u2019ve been doing something right \u2013 right? Well, not according to Stephen King. In an interview with the Washington Post<\/a>, King was asked his thoughts about some of the TV adaptations of his work, and he didn\u2019t mince words when it came to\u00a0Under the Dome<\/em>.
\n\u201cUnder the Dome<\/em>\u00a0[on CBS] was one I felt like went entirely off the rails, because the people are doing things that don\u2019t seem realistic,\u201d King said. \u201cOne thing that killed me was you never hear the sound of a generator anywhere. The electric power is fine. Everything looks clean. Everything is great, except that they\u2019re cut off from the world. And that isn\u2019t what would happ<\/a>en.\u00a0If you ask people to accept those ideas, there has to be a sense of realism that goes with it, that pulls you along.\u201d<\/p>\n

In King\u2019s sprawling novel, a small town is caught under a giant impenetrable dome set up by aliens (yes, really). The book itself was King\u2019s satire of the Bush administration, complete with an evil Dick Cheney stand-in manipulating a dumb Bush-like figure. It\u2019s not one of King\u2019s better works, I\u2019m afraid \u2013 which is why I never even bothered to check out the show.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve\u00a0also<\/em> never watched\u00a0Mr. Mercedes<\/em>, the series<\/a> based on King\u2019s Bill Hodges Trilogy. The Bill Hodges books are mysteries, and that I prefer King in horror mode. But King is clearly a fan of the series, primarily because he thinks it does a good job creating believable characters. King himself is great at character building, so it would make sense for him to gravitate towards that.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe characters seem true to me,\u201d he said. \u201cOne of the things I try to do in the books is play fair with all the characters and try to respect them and love them. What I really love to do, and I think I\u2019ve had some success for this, is for readers to feel like they know all the characters. That they\u2019re getting a feel of roundness in the characters, the good stuff the bad stuff. I want you to care about the people. The good people, I want you to fall in love with. \u2026 The bad people, I want you to see\u00a0why<\/i>\u00a0they\u2019re bad.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cA series like Mr. Mercedes, how many episodes are there total? Probably 28 or 29 in three seasons. That\u2019s enough time so that if the characters are just cardboard cutouts after all that time, then you did something wrong, and the people you hired to adapt this thing and who were interested in it did something wrong.\u201d
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