When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. This was a good show and well worth the time spent watching the entire eight episode run.Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. As good as this episode was, it ranks in the middle of the pack. The Nightmares & Dreamscapes miniseries was well executed with some first rate talent doing the writing and directing in the eight episodes that were drawn from stories published in Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Everything’s Eventual, and Night Shift. There could be no dramatic end just a slow fade. But taking the story any place else other than where King took us at the end would have belied story. The end of the story is rather anti-climatic and may not have made for the best television. Particularly subtle, yet chilling, is the television reporter stumbling over her script as dozens of happy, mindless people look on from behind. This may have turned off those expecting to see a King monster movie, but to more discerning audiences who enjoy subtlety and nuance in their horror, Salamon directing was masterful. King's story is cerebral and none of that is lost in Cohen’s script. That’s a good change that saved us from a number of “John Boy Walton” moments where we see the writer writing with the actor doing voiceover.
So, instead of sitting down to write it all, he sits before a camera and recites it.
The main deviation from King is the main character is not a writer, but a film maker. Salomon directed the 2004 television miniseries, ‘Salem’s Lot.Ĭohen sticks with King’s story, padding it here and there to make it move. He also scripted the television miniseries, It, and The Tommyknockers. Cohen was the first man to take King from the book to the screen, penning the script for the Brian DePalma film version of Carrie in 1976.
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