FIT FOR A KING! UNEARTHING THE "BAG OF BONES"

Tragedy and death make their mark in Stephen King's BAG OF BONES. Image: A & E.

With the huge worldwide success of new modern horror shows THE WALKING DEAD and AMERICAN HORROR STORY, its nice to see that the high quality bar for the scare 'em and thrill 'em genre is continuing afoot with the news that A & E NETWORK, alongside SONY PICTURES, have snapped up the filming rights to one of prolific and legendary scary writer Stephen King's most popular novels - BAG OF BONES, and that they've equally managed to acquire such a prestige cast and behind the scenes team, including film director Mick Garris, in order to bring it to unsettling life (or should be that death?) as a two part, four hour slice of moody and no doubt gory event TV.

Just what we like, eh?!

As a former James Bond, the always likable Pierce Brosnan, making a rare and obviously confident return to the small screen, was used to making the most of his license to kill in sending people to their graves, but, now playing widower Mike Noonan, just how will he come terms with the visions of his recently dead wife, Jo (played by THE X-FILES Annabeth Gish), as he tries to regain his life and sanity in the Maine town that they once shared and fell in love with? And just what bearing do these visitations, and other spectral associations, have in his soon-to-be involved custody battle between an attractive widow, Mattie Devore, her daughter and their powerfully wealthy real-estate owning grandfather? As trouble builds, and past truths are unearthed, what stirs beneath the waters of the mysterious, past shrouded realms of the nearby Dark Score Lake?

Trailer/behind the scenes: Stephen King's Bag of Bones - Trailer - YouTube

With a talented guest cast that also includes Melissa George (as Mattie), Jason Priestley and William Schallert, this ambitious adaptation, courtesy of Matt Venne, looks set to retain all of the key ingredients of King's work that make him the true and undisputed master of the genre: from tragedy, mis-spent youth, community nostalgia and cruelty, to lost love, revenge and visceral terror, backed up with stunning cinematography of colour and darkness courtesy of acclaimed Dutchman Joachim Ladefoged. Keep an eye out (or two) for BAG OF BONES chilling presence across US television just in time for the colder, darker nights of December.

An online prequel to the mini-series scam be found via the goose-bump inducing website:  Stephen King's Bag Of Bones - A&E Television