Given that he is one of the most popular novelists in the history of American literature, it is not surprising that Stephen King’s novels and short stories are adapted to films and television countless times since his first book, Carrie’s publication in 1974. Meh-good that exists.
Yes, there was a big studio transfer “Atlantis Hearts” with Anthony Hopkins and new Anton JelchinAnd no, you imagined the “night flyer” or “mercy”. Television adjustments are especially easy to forget, because it is good that most of them are completely, aggressive. “Rose Red” miniseries Really happened, and “despair” was actually turned into a TV movie. With a frightening exception, television has not made King well. Even when King himself has been involved (for example, in the CBS All Access version, “Stends”), the results tend to be lower at best.
Therefore, you cannot blame the author for attempting to shake things by adjusting someone else’s work to change – what Kings did with Kingdom Hospital in 2004. Based on the horror miniser “Kingdom”, which Lars Von Trier created on Danish television in 1994 (and continued the series in 1997 and 2022), initially designed as the miniseria itself. But King saw the potential in the material of the current series, and ABC was probably also interested in the show’s premiere of the network at the highest rating of drama debut that season.
If you are trying to remember what happened in the series, like me, you may not remember why this second season has never come true. The answer will not surprise you.
The Kingdom Hospital was not suitable for the king, even more horror king
Although the king Told the New York Times In 2004, “Kingdom Hospital” was “the thing I like best of all the things I’ve done,” the audience apparently disagreed. The series’s ratings fell from the cliff after the premiere and lacked the critical support that was needed to ABC think that the second season could be valuable.
My series memory is that it was long set and short shipping. This is a shame because the medical procedure is a popular genre on American television and thus spread with potential if you come from an odd point of view. Installing a series in a ghost hospital inhabited by staff belonging to a secret society seemed to be a winning idea (after all, von Trier did miracles with it), but the show simply couldn’t go into your hooks. Even with the cast of dynamite showing Bruce Davis, Ed Begley’s latest (hospital show veteran, which gave his work “St.
King had a plan for the second season and his heavy fans lobbyed on behalf of the series but without critical support (the show sports below the average level Metacritical The result 47), there was simply no chance that the ABC would support what happened quite an expensive show. Given that each episode was led by Craig R. Baksley, an underestimated action filmmaker responsible for “Action Jackson” (one of /Movies 101 Best Activity Movies) and “Stone Cold”, no one wanted this series to work more than I. It just wasn’t on the maps. And now you can come back to forget “Kingdom Hospital” ever existed.
