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25th July 2011 09:58 AM
Darren Allan
Stephen King has of course written many, many horror books, and a large number of them have made it to the big screen since the very first adaptation of Carrie way back in 1976.
Or indeed the small screen, and the latest King title to make the leap to the visual medium is his 1998 novel Bag of Bones.
Actually, this has been a project on the go for a while, and was originally planned to be a film. However, the latest buzz on the web indicates that it has been transformed into a TV mini-series, to be aired on the A&E Network (Arts & Entertainment) in the US.
It’ll be a four hour affair split into two episodes, with a former Bond taking the lead role in the story which focuses on an author who is plunged into a nightmarish world after his wife dies.
Pierce Brosnan, who was Bond in the late nineties and early noughties, plays the writer Mike Noonan. Brosnan was in Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief recently, and later this year will appear in Johnny English Reborn.
Annabeth Gish will also be starring, you’ll likely know her better as Agent Monica Reyes if you watched the later X-Files post Scully and Mulder.
Production is set to begin next month in Canada, Nova Scotia, and hopefully after its airing in the States it’ll be picked up quickly enough this side of the pond.
Darren Allan
Stephen King has of course written many, many horror books, and a large number of them have made it to the big screen since the very first adaptation of Carrie way back in 1976.
Or indeed the small screen, and the latest King title to make the leap to the visual medium is his 1998 novel Bag of Bones.
Actually, this has been a project on the go for a while, and was originally planned to be a film. However, the latest buzz on the web indicates that it has been transformed into a TV mini-series, to be aired on the A&E Network (Arts & Entertainment) in the US.
It’ll be a four hour affair split into two episodes, with a former Bond taking the lead role in the story which focuses on an author who is plunged into a nightmarish world after his wife dies.
Pierce Brosnan, who was Bond in the late nineties and early noughties, plays the writer Mike Noonan. Brosnan was in Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief recently, and later this year will appear in Johnny English Reborn.
Annabeth Gish will also be starring, you’ll likely know her better as Agent Monica Reyes if you watched the later X-Files post Scully and Mulder.
Production is set to begin next month in Canada, Nova Scotia, and hopefully after its airing in the States it’ll be picked up quickly enough this side of the pond.
