In 1996, Stephen King wandered into a video store and picked up the Danish film Riget (The Kingdom). The thriller, directed by Lars von Trier (Dancer in the Dark) and set in a haunted hospital, spooked even the King of Creepy. "I thought, We really ought to do this for American TV," he recalls.
King continued to covet the project even after film studio Sony acquired it. Then, in 1998, he was hit by a car in rural Maine and confined for months in--that's right--a hospital. Inspired and determined, he made a deal with Sony, secured a series with ABC and...
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