King was famously so unhappy with Stanley Kubrick’s version of his classic third published novel that he wrote his own miniseries, with pal Mick Garris directing again. Bangor (that’s King’s hometown for non-diehards). King turns up as a pharmacist, amusingly named Mr. King’s novel (written under the name Richard Bachman) about a heavyset lawyer who is literally disappearing due to a gypsy’s curse was made into a rather forgettable movie starring one-time RoboCop Robert John Burke. One of the passengers is a mentally deteriorating broker named Craig Toomy (Bronson Pinchot), who hallucinates at one point that he’s confronting his oily, money-hungry boss, Tom Holby - played by the author - just before the title monsters gobble him up. One of King’s less well-received miniseries, this weird sci-fi saga takes place on a plane that has become displaced in time.
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