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November 9, 2011

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After an extensive search, comic book and Lost writer Brian K. Vaughan has been tapped to pen Showtime’s drama series adaptation of Stephen King’s 2009 novel Under the Dome, from DreamWorks Television.

The supernatural thriller revolves around locals at a Maine vacation spot who battle one another when a force field suddenly surrounds their town and cuts them off from the rest of the world.

DreamWorks’ Steven Spielberg and Stacey Snider originally secured the rights to King’s novel shortly after it was published in November 2009. The project was set up as a series at Showtime in August when the producers and Showtime launched a search for a writer.

Under The Dome is executive produced by King and DreamWorks TV’s Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank. Vaughan is a familiar name for comic book and sci-fi fans. He is best known for writing the comic book series Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina, Runaways and Pride Of Baghdad and for being a writer on ABC’s popular series Lost during seasons 3-5.

Hmmm ...

Interesting.

I haven't been able to bring myself to read that book. It's a monster.

I hope this adaptation goes better than most SK book adaptations.

I liked the book. Not my favorite, but decent, nonetheless. Jury in my head is out about a series....though The Stand was pretty good.

I finished the book, but I found it very tedious.

I don't know how I feel about it being a "drama series".

But I'll watch it, of course!

i'll check it out

King and his dumb plots.

Have to read the book first, but it seems that the adaptions for tv turn out better than some of the recent ones for the movie theatres.

this is a great "Simpsons did it" moment

A 2009 interview of King discussing the novel, Under The Dome.