Meanwhile, one of Stephen King’s favorite Hollywood collaborators, George A. Romero, was busy expanding his career on the small screen.
That’s the query I’ll be processing in this week’s edition of Adapting Stephen King.
Following the director’s success with Creepshow, interest was developed in the idea of a horror anthology television series, and while rights issues prevented use of the film’s title, Laurel Entertainment produced the first season of Tales From The Darkside in 1984.
It can often be the case that stories about emerging 20th century technologies don’t age well due to how rapidly everything changes in modernity – but is this an example of an exception?