It’s been a while since we last heard any news about Pablo Larraín‘s adaptation of the Stephen King novel “Lisey’s Story,” with the global pandemic still heavily affecting movie and TV productions all over the world. While there’s still no news on the production itself, Stephen King himself spoke about the show, and praised Larraín’s new ideas for the limited series.
In a recent interview with The Washington Post to promote Peacock adding his “Mr. Mercedes” show, King talked about his many film and TV adaptations, including the upcoming “Lisey’s Story” limited series for AppleTV+. “[Larraín’s] got a lot of ideas that don’t depart from the throughline of the story but are beautiful visual things, with a lot of energy involved,” King said. “It’s like having more depth perception, because I’m like one eye and he’s the other eye.”
The author continued, “If you’re going to really succeed in this business, get people you know are talented and then say, ‘Okay, I’m going to step back. I’m not going to be looking over your shoulder and fiddling in your stuff. Go ahead and do the stuff you’re good at doing.'”
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King also took the time to address CBS‘s adaptation of “Under the Dome” as a wrong way to adapt his work. “‘Under the Dome’ was one I felt like went entirely off the rails because the people are doing things that don’t seem realistic,” King explained. “One 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’re cut off from the world. And that isn’t what would happen…If you ask people to accept those ideas, there has to be a sense of realism that goes with it, that pulls you along.”