skyesspot 0 #1 March 2, 2004 I just can't wait til tomorrow nite. I LOVE Stephen King. Who else has been counting down the days (or am I just strange?) Life is too short. Don't sweat the small stuff. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Girlfalldown 0 #2 March 2, 2004 Um hello!!!! You know I'll be watching it. Maybe you should come over and watch it with me... -------------- (Do not, I repeat DO NOT, take my posts seriously.) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
moodyskydiver 0 #3 March 2, 2004 Another big King fan here. I'll be watching tomorrow too and counting down the days til the next Dark Tower book is released this summer. "...just an earthbound misfit, I." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Girlfalldown 0 #4 March 2, 2004 Yeah! 3 chicks that are King fans! Gotta love it. PM me when it's over and let me know what you think. -------------- (Do not, I repeat DO NOT, take my posts seriously.) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skyesspot 0 #5 March 2, 2004 So does that mean that us women are more warped? Life is too short. Don't sweat the small stuff. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Girlfalldown 0 #6 March 2, 2004 I can't speak for all women but there's definitely something very wrong with me. Go on, ask around. You'll see. -------------- (Do not, I repeat DO NOT, take my posts seriously.) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Luna 0 #7 March 2, 2004 I've BEEN counting down the days, for weeks now! Also for the new DT book, which they moved up to a JUNE release!! YIPPEE! I can't get enough SK! I'm walking a marathon to raise money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Click Here for more information! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skyesspot 0 #8 March 2, 2004 That must be why we get along so well. Life is too short. Don't sweat the small stuff. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Michele 1 #9 March 3, 2004 Um, can someone fill me in? I know, I'm a dingbat, but whatever...Kingdom? Ciels- Michele ~Do Angels keep the dreams we seek While our hearts lie bleeding?~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PLFKING 4 #10 March 3, 2004 Kingdom Hospital, Wednesday night on ABC (I think). Don"When in doubt I whip it out, I got me a rock-and-roll band. It's a free-for-all." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Michele 1 #11 March 3, 2004 Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...I shall make sure I watch it. Thanks, Don.... Ciels- Michele ~Do Angels keep the dreams we seek While our hearts lie bleeding?~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mikkey 0 #12 March 3, 2004 If this is just remotely similar to the original "Kingdom" by Lars von Trier (which it supposedly based on) then you are in for a fascinating but weird ride. I enjoyed the original one immensely.--------------------------------------------------------- When people look like ants - pull. When ants look like people - pray. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
moodyskydiver 0 #13 March 3, 2004 From The Official Stephen King website (yes I'm that much of a weird fan).... The official series premiere is Wednesday, March 3, 9:00-11:00 PM (ET) on ABC. The subsequent episodes will air Wednesdays from 10:00-11:00 PM (ET). Click Here for more information from ABC.com "...just an earthbound misfit, I." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Michele 1 #14 March 3, 2004 Ah, thanks, Moody. Is this a series or a mini series? I haven't watched "regular" tv in years - I tend to stay over on the cable things.... Also, this seems to be based "loosely" on his accident, and is set in the hospital he was treated in. any idea if this is what happened? He's soooooo twisted...and he's sooooooo great. Did you read that 'Salem's Lot is being redone w/ Rob Lowe and will come out sometime this year? Someone make sure I see that, too...'cause I'm likely to miss it (like I did with Ellen Rimbauer...) Ciels- michele ~Do Angels keep the dreams we seek While our hearts lie bleeding?~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Luna 0 #15 March 3, 2004 It's going to be 14 or 15 episodes, so that qualifies as a real series I think. I've heard they are already talking about a second season. SK's accident I think is just a peripheral story, though he is saying what is depicted is very close to what actually happened. The series really is going to focus on the hospital and the things that went on and are going on there I think (not the actual hospital he was treated in...the one in his twisted imagination). They put out a book called The Journals of Eleanor Druse: My Investigation of the Kingdom Hospital Incident that gives much background to the series. It says it was written by Eleanor Druse, a main character in the series, so it's hard to say if SK wrote it or not...he did not write the Limbauer book, so who knows, but it's still a good and quick read with good background information going into the series. There's also a rather interesting web site that ABC put up for the show: www.kingdomhospitalofmaine.com. I'm walking a marathon to raise money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Click Here for more information! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mikkey 0 #16 March 3, 2004 QuoteThey put out a book called The Journals of Eleanor Druse: My Investigation of the Kingdom Hospital Incident that gives much background to the series Druse is a fictional character and the "book" is part of the plot line. The following article from AP gives you some background: Stephen King has embedded knowledge of 'Kingdom Hospital' By Bridget Byrne Associated Press LOS ANGELES - Stephen King still isn't sure whether he'll pop up in one of his Hitchcock-style cameos in ''Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital.'' ''You can't call what I do acting. But if they find a cameo, I may do it because I've got a lot of sliced ham in my personality. ... A lot depends on how well I feel,'' said the horror genre master. ''I feel a lot better than I did,'' he added. ''Finally, my body seems to be winning.'' The 56-year-old King, seemingly recovered from his near fatal injuries from being hit by a van in 1999, was very hands-on when filming began last year on this 15-hour, 13-part ABC series. Then he was hospitalized again with pneumonia and an intestinal infection. But next week - after a brief detour to catch the Boston Red Sox in spring training - he's heading from Florida back to Vancouver where filming continues on the humorous horror series, which premieres with a two-hour episode 9 p.m. Wednesday. ''Kingdom Hospital'' was inspired by ''Riget'' (''The Kingdom''), a 1994 miniseries by Danish director Lars von Trier, who shares executive producer credit with King and Mark Carliner on this adaptation. King saw the original in 1997 and ''was just amazed by it.'' He then hoped to adapt it for U.S. audiences, but was initially stymied because Sony/Columbia had the rights to make a feature film. The studio eventually made a deal with King to co-produce the miniseries in exchange for the rights to his novella, which has been adapted into ''Secret Window,'' the Johnny Depp movie that opens March 12. King wrote all but four episodes of ''Kingdom Hospital.'' (Richard Dooling penned the rest.) His viewpoint on both the natural and supernatural aspects of a hospital environment was deeply enhanced by his own long bout in the ICU. He created an alter ego character, Peter Rickman (a heavily bandaged Jack Coleman), who is hospitalized after being hit by a van. ''His injuries are much worse than mine ever were. He's got head injuries and spinal injuries, because that makes the story work better,'' King said. This choice also was inspired by the thought processes of the bed-bound patient at the heart of Dennis Potter's 1986 black comedy ''The Singing Detective,'' which King believes is '''The Citizen Kane' of miniseries.'' But he remained faithful to von Trier's original, keeping ''the really scary and really funny'' but removing some of the confusing gothic, ghostly background. ''We took away a lot of the clanking.'' Major characters he retained: Dr. Hook - ''the one doctor who is not a laggard, a layabout, an incompetent or a slacker'' - and the renamed Dr. ''Steg'' Stegman, who is definitely evil. Andrew McCarthy plays Hook; Bruce Davison is Steg. Diane Ladd portrays Sally Druse, who constantly checks herself into the haunted hospital to use her powers as a medium, while Ed Begley Jr. is the incompetent Dr. Jesse James. King, long an admirer of Davison (a supporting-actor Oscar nominee for 1990's ''Longtime Companion''), insisted on his casting: ''Nobody can smile and be mean the way Bruce can.'' Stegman does lab work with rats, which gave King the inspiration to write a scene that evokes the rat-infested ''Willard,'' Davison's 1971 cult hit. ''Steg represents so much of what's really wrong with this country. It's all about power and control and it's just run amok,'' said Davison, relishing this villain's role. ''He's bad and he pays the price for it, too, because it's the sure way to insanity.'' Davison and McCarthy, briefly in Los Angeles to promote the series, seemed sort of cheerfully spooked by their duties on what Davison calls ''Doctors Gone Bad!'' ''I think Stephen really appreciates everybody's quirks ... When I met him he was interested in the weird little things of my personality,'' said McCarthy, declining, with a grin, to reveal what they are. King, who has already created a synopsis for a possible second season of episodes, insists the show is ''a bit different'' from the mainstream. ''This is a little bit oddball, a little bit strange. It's not a 'CSI' clone; it's not a 'Law & Order' clone; thank God, it's not a reality show - it's not about carrying a tiki torch up the side of a volcano.'' And it's not like a regular series, he said, ''which has a beginning, a middle, a middle, a middle, a middle ... ''The promise that we make to the audience is the same promise that I always make. I will tell you a story and it will have a beginning, a middle and an end!''--------------------------------------------------------- When people look like ants - pull. When ants look like people - pray. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
