Under the Dome

Well, all right.

So, uh, within this movie, as I was watching it, it gave me a lot of feels from Stephen King's Under the Dome, because at the-

Okay.

Yeah.

He starts with the mundane.

He takes a seemingly normal, recognizable, often blue-collar American town, places we've all driven through, like Derry or Salem's Lot or Chester's Mill from Under the Dome.

Towns that feel incredibly real.

Yes, and he meticulously maps out the town's politics, its secrets, and its social hierarchy long before revealing that it is harboring a massive, inescapable, supernatural secret.

My gosh.

But then you go on to CSI: New York, Under the Dome, Secrets and Lies, Kingdom.

I, you just, you keep going.

And a lot of-

You also have a good run with Bialy Thomas with Detroit 1-8-7-

Mm-hmm

... and then coming back to Under the Dome.

You've got a good run with Jen Cooper-

...

Under the Dome or whatever.

Oh, really?

Did he do Under the Dome?

I don't know.

Um, he worked on Lost, also Game of Thrones.

Mm-hmm.

O- oh, yeah.

many movies that I've seen that I didn't know were Stephen King until after.

Under the Dome was way better as a book than the series.

Did they

make a show? They did.

And I feel like I've seen him in a couple other things too.

It, I could be wrong, but I think he was also in Under the Dome.

Uh, which is not a good adaptation [laughs] for the record.

Mm.

Beyond...

Below the Dome or Under the Dome, the Stephen King thing-

Mm-hmm

... was originally supposed to be a limited series, and it, it got a second season.

Totally.

But specifically for King, he's directed Under the Dome, Mr. Mercedes, and The Outsider.

He even goes way back to directing Child's Play 3 in the early nineties, so he deeply understands the specific visceral flavor of terror associated with children.

Jake Dee's article specifically calls Bender one of the more trusted filmmakers to translate King's macabre sensibilities, and that word macabre is so perfect here.