![]() While making his way through Nevada, he came upon a seemingly empty town called Ruth, and two thoughts instantly sprung to mind: “They’re all dead” and “Who killed them?” The answer he conjured was that the local sheriff had gone on some kind of homicidal rampage – and with that he started to come up with Desperation’s monstrous antagonist, Collie Entragian. The novel’s origins are documented on the author’s official website, and note that the idea for the story was born in 1991 when Stephen King was driving across the United States in his daughter’s car. ![]() There are many more examples of this in the King canon – and Desperation is very much a part of that group. ![]() “Children Of The Corn” drops its East coast protagonists into the vast emptiness of Nebraska. The Shining traps its characters alone in a Rocky Mountain hotel. Salem’s Lot was inspired by the idea of a secluded Maine town being quietly annihilated. Stephen King obviously understands the horror potential in isolated places. (Image credit: ABC) What Desperation Is About #STEPHEN KING BOOK AND MOVIE BITING THE BULLET TV#It wasn’t until years later – after the men collaborated on the 2004 super flop Riding The Bullet – that ABC convinced them to rework King’s screenplay as a teleplay, and what was going to be a big screen film was turned into a TV movie. The studio balked at the idea of making a straight horror feature while witnessing the demand for what Garris calls, “self-reflective, nudge, nudge, wink, wink, teenage horror movie spoofs,” and the project went on the backburner. Unfortunately, Hollywood trends ended up providing a roadblock.Īccording to Mick Garris on Desperation’s DVD commentary, Stephen King sold his script to New Line Cinema, but it hit a wall following the blockbuster success of Wes Craven’s Scream. The book was brand new at the time (it hit stores in September 1996), and initially, the idea was for King and Garris to make it as a theatrically released follow-up to The Shining. ![]() The project was one of two adaptations that began their Hollywood journey on the set of the 1997 miniseries remake of The Shining (also written by King and directed by Garris) – but while Frank Darabont’s pitch for The Green Mile quickly got traction at Castle Rock and was made into a feature film that hit theaters in 2001, Desperation’s path toward release was a lot rockier. ![]()
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