A&E announced today that they will air a four-hour mini series based on the novel Bag of Bones by Stephen King and starring Pierce Brosnan and Annabeth Gish. This is mild consolation in the wake of the news that The Dark Tower collapsed at Universal and is in search of a new home, but good news nonetheless. Bones was an excellent read and should make a darn fine movie.
Bag of Bones is the story of Mike Noonan, a writer living in Derry, Maine, a place King fans will instantly recognize. Noonan is suffering from writer’s block after the death of his wife and moves to their lake house for inspiration. Instead he finds a single mom with some serious problems and a ghost that isn’t terribly friendly. This being a King story there is of course a kid involved and an enemy in the form of a rich and powerful man in town. And speaking of The Dark Tower, Bones shares a link with that world as well. I’ll leave it up to you to sort that one out.
Bag of Bones will air this fall on A&E.
