King is historically open to adaptations of his work, with some exceptions. He said, “There’s only one element of my novel that absolutely had to be the same in the novel and the show, and that’s the Dome itself.” He also says that “the writers have completely re-imagined the source of the Dome,” so I guess he’s just saying that there needed to be a dome in Under The Dome. The TV show also makes a lot of changes to characters and plot points, but King argues that the core of his story is still recognizable in it. King explained that some of the changes in Under The Dome were necessary due to the format, as the TV version stretches out the length of time that Chester’s Mill, Maine is enclosed in a mysterious dome from days in the book to several months or more. Vaughan‘s adaptation of his 2009 novel, some of which were consistent with King’s approach to the many, many film and TV versions of his work, and some which were more intriguing for the TV show’s future. He provided a variety of reasons why changes were needed for Brian K. The TV adaptation of Stephen King‘s novel Under The Domeon CBS got off to a cow-slicingly good start last week, and the author himself spoke out on his website in defense of the many changes the TV series will take from the book.
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