>> How did SK and Rose Red tie into this?

>
> King wrote the screenplay for Rose Red. It was based on a project he
> and Steven Spielberg tried to put together many years earlier, but they
> couldn't agree on the story's focus. So King did it himself.
>
> The company that owns ABC also owns the publisher Hyperion. Someone
> came up with the idea of doing a media tie-in book, but King didn't
> have the time to write it so he suggested his buddy Ridley Pearson, who
> spent time on the Rose Red set. His presence there let him inject into
> the diaries things like a funny allusion to King's cameo in the
> miniseries.
>

>> I thought that Kingdom Hospital was based on The Journals of Eleanor
>> Druse,
>> no? How did SK become involved in this? I would think that with all the
>> wonderful books Steve has out, if he was looking for tv projects, he
>> would
>> have plenty of material to draw from.

>
> No, Kingdom Hospital was based on the Danish miniseries "Riget"
> (Kingdom), directed by Lars von Trier. King rented the miniseries when
> he was in Colorado filming The Shining and felt inspired to acquire the
> American rights to the story. The rights were tied up with another
> company at the time, so he exchanged the film rights to "Secret Window,
> Secret Garden" so he could do the adaptation.
>
> The Journals were another media tie-in idea. King had read some of Rick
> Dooling's novels (one of his examples in On Writing comes from a
> Dooling novel). Knowing Rick's medical background, he asked him to be a
> medical consultant on Kingdom Hospital. That relationship progressed to
> the point where Rick became a co-writer on several episodes. HE was the
> natural choice as the person to write the tie-in.
>
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> Bev Vincent
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