All images shamelessly stolen from the great Stephen King Cover Gallery!
DETAILS
A band of disparate travellers are trapped in a tiny, abandoned mining town out in the Nevada desert where something evil has been unleashed. OK, so that's not the best description but this was the great companion book to The Regulators, another favorite of ours. Desperation was adapted by King himself for a feature to be directed by Mick Garris.PRODUCTION:
Originally at New Line Cinema, the project was shopped to independent production companies. It's now being discussed as a project for television.
CAST:
None yet.
UPDATES
8/1/01 -- Director Mick Garris, whom we know and love from The Stand and The Shining, recently did a round of interviews in which he talked a little about Desperation. Here's what he told 13th Street's Smilin' Jack Ruby:Mick Garris recently told me that CBS has expressed interest in doing Desperation as a miniseries, though both he and King wanted to give first crack to ABC where Garris directed The Shining and The Stand. The script to Desperation was actually written by King himself and was meant to be a feature, but now it's looking more like another miniseries. Read the whole thing HERE (you really should; it's a great article!)
Garris also spoke with Creature Corner's Ryan Rotten and had this to say about the project:
It's a terrific script. It's very hard-hitting. You know, it's very intense and I think New Line didn't want to spend $33 million to do a horror movie that is a real horror movie and isn't about teenagers joking about other horror flicks. The weird thing about it is it may become a miniseries. I've always said that I really don't want to do it for television because I want to keep how aggressive it is. But with King you can stretch the envelope a little bit. You know, THE SHINING would have been rated R had it been a theatrical movie. It gets pretty intense.
Read the whole thing HERE.
For earlier scoops, check out the great Coming Attractions' Desperation page.
If anyone has any images/scoops/news about this film, you know who to write!.