Natalie Martinez & Alex Koch Cast In CBS’ ‘Under The Dome’ Series

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• Wasn’t that a subplot in The Simpson’s Movie? They should totes sue!!!

  Comment by Jan — Tuesday January 22, 2013 @ 9:46pm PST  Reply to this post

• Okay I’ve gotten SICK of people who think The Simpsons invented the “city in a dome” trope, it’s as old as the hills or at least Wlliam Shatner. Star Trek had an episode like that (For The World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky). Dark city also used that idea. More here: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CityInABottle.

  Comment by sffan — Tuesday January 22, 2013 @ 9:58pm PST  Reply to this post

• King with Spielberg in a miniseries, this sounds very promising for me. A real surprise for me CBS shows here an active and courageous step. And concerning the above subplot-criticism with The Simpsons / Under the Dome: Certain parallels can be found in many movies/TV-Shows/reality TV anywhere, provided you look for it and focus solely on a detail and not the whole picture. Just my two cents.

  Comment by Leo — Wednesday January 23, 2013 @ 1:28am PST  Reply to this post

• Is Brian K. “Mr. Personality” Vaughan still showrunning this or have CBS put one of their guys on it?

  Comment by INterested Observer — Wednesday January 23, 2013 @ 2:08am PST  Reply to this post

• So will Natalie still be on CSI: NY? Love her on there this season..

  Comment by Jeff H — Wednesday January 23, 2013 @ 2:38am PST  Reply to this post

• Really. Would you stop with that stupid Simpsons reference? Nobody except Simpsons fans remember it or cares.

  Comment by Shy — Wednesday January 23, 2013 @ 2:59am PST  Reply to this post

• The one-woman version of the invisible barrier idea, done exquisitely, is 2012′s The Wall (Die Wand) based on Marlen Haushofer’s 1962 novel. Saw it at PSIFF. Discussed it for days.

  Comment by lux — Wednesday January 23, 2013 @ 7:57am PST  Reply to this post

• CBS is my favorite network and I am super excited to see how this turns out. I think the casting has been good so far, but, does anyone know who will play Barbie?

  Comment by stephanie — Wednesday January 23, 2013 @ 11:03am PST  Reply to this post

• It was first aired as a twilight zone episode, which King even states in the preface was his inspiration for the story. Don’t just say he ripped someone off, though, guys. This story is incredible. I have read it 3 times and it’s over 1000 pages…

  Comment by anonymous — Wednesday January 23, 2013 @ 12:41pm PST  Reply to this post

• It’s the Gardol Invisible Protective Shield dammit!

  Comment by Gordon Cole — Wednesday January 23, 2013 @ 2:05pm PST  Reply to this post

• Mightn’t wish to compare King’s “Under the Dome” to “The Simpson Movie.” The Simpson’s used the “dome theme” for laughs, and it scored. The first ten minutes of the silly movie will illicit more than one burst of laughter. The first ten pages of King’s book will leave your jaw hanging.

  If one wishes to compare King’s “Dome” to another motion-picture, the better choice would be Hitchcock’s “Lifeboat” because it’s all about the evolving and devolving relationships between people who are helplessly confined in a small, dangerous place.

  Like the small number of Hitchcock’s varied personalities who find themselves trapped in a small lifeboat after their passenger ship is sunk by a German U-boat during WWII, King’s characters will also be forced to determine their survival or annihilation based on their ability to make critical decisions. Each of King’s characters is endowed with personal motivations and objectives. As soon as the mysterious dome cuts the community off from the rest of the world, conflicts arise among the survivors and hidden agendas are exposed.

  King’s book is a character study about how inescapable isolation can affect people and their interpersonal relationships. The Dome merely magnifies the characters’ propensity for heroism or malevolence. As for the evil-hearted characters trapped “Under the Dome,” be assured: The monsters and demons so typical in King’s work are here, too.

  Comment by Emmett Glenn — Thursday January 24, 2013 @ 1:41am PST  Reply to this post

• Sorry the book was made way before the simpsons movie so he should sue

  Comment by Andres — Monday February 4, 2013 @ 10:50am PST  Reply to this post

• People really need to do their research. King had the idea for putting a town under a dome in the ’70s, during which he started (but never finished) a manuscript for a novel called ‘The Cannibals’ which later became ‘Under the Dome.’

  He addressed the Simpson’s similarity in 2009 before ‘Under the Dome’ was published. King had this to say:

  “Several Internet writers have speculated on a perceived similarity between Under the Dome and The Simpsons Movie, where, according to Wikipedia, Homer’s town of Springfield is isolated inside a large glass dome (probably because of that pesky nuclear power plant). I can’t speak personally to this, because I have never seen the movie, and the similarity came as a complete surprise to me…although I know, from personal experience, that the similarity will turn out to be casual. Unless there’s deliberate copying (sometimes known as “plagiarism”), stories can no more be alike than snowflakes. The reason is simple: no two human imaginations are exactly alike. For the doubters, this excerpt should demonstrate that I was thinking dome and isolation long before Homer, Marge, and their amusing brood came on the scene.”

  Pretty much speaks for itself.

  Comment by Dan — Tuesday February 5, 2013 @ 6:48pm PST  Reply to this post