Stephen King Wants Netflix to Bring Back Under the Dome

In Under the Dome, Chester’s Mill is trapped under the titular dome as military forces, the government, and the media positioned outside the barrier attempt to break it down, while the residents trapped inside must find their own ways to survive with diminishing resources and rising tensions. A small group of people inside the dome must also unravel complicated mysteries to figure out what the dome is, where it came from, and when (and if) it will go away. While King served as an executive poducer on the series, his tweet at Netflix — which suggests they “actually do the book” — suggests he may not have been entirely satisfied with how the series turned out.

King’s earliest adaptations were all feature films or TV miniseries, which limited the amount of changes taht could be made to the source material. The shift to premium TV for some of the King adaptations is likely to result in more serious, broader-reaching changes. While King is generally supportive of the content based on his work, it is not hard to imagine that he might be frustrated when something goes afield and then doesn’t work. Hell, he famously disliked changes made to The Shining for Stanley Kubrick’s movie, which has proven with time to be a classic. His stance there seems to have softened at least somewhat, though, with the Doctor Sleep movie apparently striking a middle ground.