Meanwhile on TV, Showtime's series based on King's Under The Dome has finally nabbed a new writer, in the form of Brian K Vaughan. Dolores Claiborne - a similarly atypical King melodrama - made for a solid two-hander for Kathy Bates and Jennifer Jason Leigh back in the 90s, but with its melding of kitchen-sink and mythical quest, Sheridan will have to work hard to stop Rose Madder from appearing head-spinningly peculiar oncsreen. The adaptation is being penned by Naomi Sheridan, whose only previous writing credit seems to be In America, directed by her father Jim. And there's some business with a magic tree. And then it's back to the real world, where our heroine finds she may be inheriting Rose Madder's mental health issues. Once through the looking glass she encounters the insane Rose Madder, and undertakes a quest to face down a minotaur in its labyrinth. It involves a woman on the run from her violent husband, who acquires a painting that she can actually go inside. King's fantastical 1995 story is part domestic saga, part fairytale and part Greek myth. The brave souls at production company Palomar Pictures have just picked up **Rose Madder as part of a three-film* deal with Grosvenor Park. Not so Rose Madder, which is so odd that nobody had seemed to want to go near it. There are relatively few novels by Stephen King yet to be filmed, and of those, most have been optioned and are languishing in development hell.
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