We recently reported that Stephen King’s A Good Marriage, from his 2010 four-novella collection Full Dark, No Stars, will likely hit theaters this October, and now another novella from the 2010 collection is getting adapted, this time as a TV movie.
Set to be an original TV movie on the Lifetime channel and expected to air sometime this fall, THR reports that Big Driver (based on the novella of the same name) will star Maria Bello as mystery author Tess Thorne, and if you’ve read the novella, then you know the actress is playing a character that goes through a truly disturbing night before undergoing vast changes of her own in her vengeful journey. Olympia Dukakis, Joan Jett, and Will Harris will co-star in the film, which we’ll keep Daily Dead readers updated on as it moves along in production.
“In Big Driver, Tess Thorne (Bello), a famous and revered mystery and thriller writer,...
Set to be an original TV movie on the Lifetime channel and expected to air sometime this fall, THR reports that Big Driver (based on the novella of the same name) will star Maria Bello as mystery author Tess Thorne, and if you’ve read the novella, then you know the actress is playing a character that goes through a truly disturbing night before undergoing vast changes of her own in her vengeful journey. Olympia Dukakis, Joan Jett, and Will Harris will co-star in the film, which we’ll keep Daily Dead readers updated on as it moves along in production.
“In Big Driver, Tess Thorne (Bello), a famous and revered mystery and thriller writer,...
- 6/24/2014
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Add Big Driver, a short story in Stephen King’s 2010 collection Full Dark, No Stars, to the huge list of works by the living literary legend that are in the midst of being adapted to the screen. Lifetime just green-lit a television movie based on the story and has set A History of Violence actress Maria Bello to star.
Big Driver will center on a successful mystery novelist (Bello) who takes an ostensible shortcut on her way home from an engagement at a Chicopee, Massachusetts, library and falls into a trap set by a sinister trucker, who proceeds to brutally rape her and leave her for dead. After recovering from her injuries, the novelist uses the detective skills she picked up from writing mystery novels to track down and take revenge on the trucker and his accomplices.
It’s pretty disturbing material for a TV movie, and King’s short story was sickeningly graphic,...
Big Driver will center on a successful mystery novelist (Bello) who takes an ostensible shortcut on her way home from an engagement at a Chicopee, Massachusetts, library and falls into a trap set by a sinister trucker, who proceeds to brutally rape her and leave her for dead. After recovering from her injuries, the novelist uses the detective skills she picked up from writing mystery novels to track down and take revenge on the trucker and his accomplices.
It’s pretty disturbing material for a TV movie, and King’s short story was sickeningly graphic,...
- 6/24/2014
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
Lifetime is getting into the Stephen King business. Maria Bello will star in the original TV movie Big Driver, based on the novella from King's 2010 collection Full Dark, No Stars, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Olympia Dukakis, Joan Jett and Will Harris also star in the revenge tale adaptation, expected to premiere this fall. Big Driver marks the first collaboration between King and the A+E Networks-owned female-skewing cable network. Photos 11 Biggest Book-to-Big-Screen Adaptations of the Past 25 Years In Big Driver, Tess Thorne (Bello), a famous and revered mystery and thriller writer, faces
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- 6/24/2014
- by Philiana Ng, Lesley Goldberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Rapid fire is the publishing world's new normal, but inspiring long-form content is not a thing of the past. Enter #LongReads: a weekly post containing what we believe to be 5 of the most compelling pieces of long-form, entertainment-related content circulating around the web. For your post-Sunday Mother's Day Brunch pleasure, here are our 5 picks. We hope they will help you exercise your brain and prepare you for the week ahead. "'I Just Got My Ass Broke All the Time: An Oral History of 'Hill Street Blues'" by Will Harris We take cop dramas on television for granted. But if it weren't for "Hill Street Blues" some thirty years ago, we wouldn't have had "NYPD Blue," "Law & Order" or even "The Wire" for that matter. With "Hill Street Blues," co-creators Steven Bochco and Michael Kozoll completely re-imagined the television cop drama by fearlessly tackling controversial subjects that had never...
- 5/11/2014
- by Shipra Gupta
- Indiewire
The best movie culture writing from around the internet-o-sphere. There will be a quiz later. Just leave a tab open for us, will ya? “Why U.S. Audiences Are More Comfortable With Subtitles Than Ever” — Scott Foundas at Variety chronicles the rising familiarity with foreign-born directors and multiple languages showing up in Hollywood movies. It’s less about the collective psyche of Americans, and more about studios coming to terms with the fact that we’re mostly not idiots who can’t read good and want to learn to do other things good, too. The main lesson is that if you make a subtitled movie, and it makes a billion dollars, studios stop caring about subtitles all that much. “Right the First Time” — Pinging off of Showgirls now being reconsidered as a misunderstood masterpiece of satire, Sam Adams at CriticWire asks the survey crowd about movies that everyone judged correctly the first time around. Heaven...
- 4/23/2014
- by Scott Beggs
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Falling Skies slowed things down a bit this week.
Not every episode can feature a major battle between the survivors and the aliens, for both production reasons and storyline reasons. The show wouldn't last half a season if that were the case.
But Falling Skies has done a strong enough job building up characters that "Grace" felt like more than filler.
I was fully invested in the fate of Mike's son, in Hal's guilt and in the way Anne argued with Dr. Harris. And while the motorcycle excursion felt like a waste at first, it revealed an enemy far more dangerous than the Skitters and the Mechs:
Children.
Tom may have been steadfast in his order that we're "not shooting kids," and the team may have found a way to escape. But what if they face this situation again? What if it's kill or be killed? It might not be...
Not every episode can feature a major battle between the survivors and the aliens, for both production reasons and storyline reasons. The show wouldn't last half a season if that were the case.
But Falling Skies has done a strong enough job building up characters that "Grace" felt like more than filler.
I was fully invested in the fate of Mike's son, in Hal's guilt and in the way Anne argued with Dr. Harris. And while the motorcycle excursion felt like a waste at first, it revealed an enemy far more dangerous than the Skitters and the Mechs:
Children.
Tom may have been steadfast in his order that we're "not shooting kids," and the team may have found a way to escape. But what if they face this situation again? What if it's kill or be killed? It might not be...
- 7/4/2011
- by matt@mediavine.com (Matt Richenthal)
- TVfanatic
One of my favorite Channing Tatum films is his hilarious 2006 hit ‘She’s the Man’. Because I’m such a fan of that movie, I’ve repeatedly told everybody and his mama (literally) that I would Love to see him in another comedy. Chan has told me that comedy makes him a little nervous and that he’s way more comfortable in the dramatic arena…but I still held out hope.
When I recently visited Chan on the set of his crime thriller ‘Son of No One‘ (which also stars Al Pacino, Ray Liotta, and Katie Holmes), I learned about his next film role. When I found out it was going to be a comedy, I realized I’d finally broken him down!
Chan’s role in the Ron Howard directed comedy ‘Cheaters’ was officially announced today, so we can finally give you guys some scoop on the new movie!
When I recently visited Chan on the set of his crime thriller ‘Son of No One‘ (which also stars Al Pacino, Ray Liotta, and Katie Holmes), I learned about his next film role. When I found out it was going to be a comedy, I realized I’d finally broken him down!
Chan’s role in the Ron Howard directed comedy ‘Cheaters’ was officially announced today, so we can finally give you guys some scoop on the new movie!
- 5/11/2010
- by Channing Tatum Unwrapped
- Channing Tatum Unwrapped
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