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| Together but separated: the nightmare of virtual separation begins in the latest Stephen King TV translation: UNDER THE DOME. Images: AMBLIN. |
It doesn't pay to be a character living in small town, especially one located in New England, when you exist within the incomparable mind set imagination of a Stephen King novel. Such types have encountered and fought vampires, voodoo, and all manner of alien invasions. And now comes UNDER THE DOME, the new US series about to make a big impact thud on the UK's CHANNEL 5 starting on Monday, as the small town inhabitants of Chester's Mill wake up one bright morning to discover their entire community mysteriously, inexplicably sealed within a transparent dome, totally isolating them from the outside world, and all they've ever known and loved. As tensions build and their soon rudimentary existences are threatened, the secret underpinnings and inter-relationships of this diverse mix of characters soon become apparent, with greed, paranoia, revenge, murder and dark tragedy thrown into the mix, of which things will never be the same again. Whilst the ultimate background and disturbing revelations of their surrounding bubble await discovery...
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| The mysterious dome surrounding Chester's Mill. |
▶ Under the Dome - Trailer - YouTube |
| Trials and tribulations ahead for the Chester's Mill residents. |
Making critical, sometimes controversial changes to the original 2009 book (in order to transform it to a possible long-term weekly series), UNDER THE DOME, starring Mike Vogel, Natalie Martinez, Jeff Fahey and Samantha Mathis, is claustrophobically adapted for the screen by a production team used to building tension and mystery within a large group of characters: LOST veterans Brian K. Vaughan and talented visualist Jack Bender. Made for Steven Spielberg's AMBLIN, it all looks set to be another intriguing addition to the world of Stephen King making the transfer from page-turning literature to hopefully, equally addictive reality...
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