47 Years Later, One Ambitious Stephen King Thriller Just Got A Huge Upgrade

47 Years Later, One Ambitious Stephen King Thriller Just Got A Huge Upgrade

Warner Bros. TelevisionStephen King’s first novel is only around 200 pages; his follow-up Salem’s Lot is closer to 500. King’s sophomore novel, about a writer returning to a small Maine town from his childhood only to discover the townspeople are turning into vampires, is by no means his longest effort (hello, It and The Stand), but it was long enough that producer Richard Kobritz smartly decided to adapt it as a miniseries rather than a straigh…

47年後，史蒂芬·金（Stephen King）一部野心勃勃的驚悚作品迎來重大升級 – DIR HONGKONG

Warner Bros. Television (SeaPRwire) –   史蒂芬·金的第一部小說只有大約200頁；他的續作《撒冷鎮》(Salem’s Lot) 則接近500頁。金的第二部小說講述一位作家回到童年時居住的緬因州小鎮，卻發現鎮民們正變成吸血鬼。這絕非他最長的作品（想想《牠》(It) 和《末日逼近》(The Stand)），但它足夠長，以至於製片人 Richard Kobritz 明智地決定將其改編成迷你影集，而不是像導演 Brian De Palma 在1976年改編《魔女嘉莉》(Carrie) 那樣拍成一部直述的電影。 意識到金的作品可能最適合小螢幕，《撒冷鎮》以其引人入勝、充滿氛圍的敘事贏得了三個小時的時長——現在它已推出經過4K修復的藍光版本。 《撒冷鎮》發行時的評價如何？ 很難衡量1979年11月在CBS首次播出時，《撒冷鎮》迷你影集的受歡迎程度：The New York Times 的收視率報告隨意提到第一部分在當週57部黃金時段節目中排名第35位；金的兒子…