

At more than a thousand pages, it overflowed with characters and storylines that have been tweaked, cut or entirely re-imagined for a tighter TV focus. The producers faced a similar situation when wrangling King's sprawling opus. "When things run amok, you've got to do something." "What do you do when you run out of fuel, or there are no doctors because they're all trapped outside? How do you start over?" Baer asks. He's got no problem with that being an issue." And before you can say, "Holy fascist state!" tough decisions are made to save what's left of the group's resources and sanity. "He does whatever he can, and if murder happens, it happens. "He's such a fun character to play, because while the dome is a tragedy for everybody else, for him it's an opportunity," Norris says. If that weren't enough, there's a secret surrounding Big Jim's stockpile of propane, and he has a killer Alexander Haig-ish plan to take charge of the terrified town. This is dire news for a diabetic ( Samantha Mathis) who is traveling through town with her partner ( Aisha Hinds) and their rebellious daughter ( Mackenzie Lintz) when the mysterious dome drops. Teens start having seizures and babbling about "pink stars falling," the local radio team ( Jolene Purdy and Nicholas Strong) picks up signals of unknown origin, military forces fail to breach the barrier and medical supplies slowly start to dwindle. Battle lines get drawn." And bad things begin to happen. "Changes must be made, and a lot of those shifts are internal. And like the passengers of Oceanic Flight 815, Baer says, the folks of Chester's Mill "come together.in the beginning."Īfter the initial shock, however, "it becomes one of those situations where life as you know it can no longer continue," Lefevre says. In this case, it's not a plane crash but the sudden appearance of an almost undetectable bubble over the town. Although there are no smoke monsters or sideways timelines, Dome does focus on a group of survivors - anchored by drifter Dale "Barbie" Barbara ( Bates Motel's Mike Vogel), journalist Julia Shumway ( Twilight's Rachelle Lefevre), frisky candy striper Angie McAlister ( Secret Circle's Britt Robertson) and local councilman/megalomaniac Big Jim Rennie ( Breaking Bad's Dean Norris) - who are cut off from the rest of mankind after a violent, life-altering experience. "He sent me the script, and it was the first thing I'd read in a long time that I really loved.

"I was taking some time off, trying to find something I really wanted to do, and Brian called me," Bender says.
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Vaughan, who penned the series and previously worked with Bender on ABC's mystery-island hit. In addition to King's built-in appeal, Under the Dome- which was originally developed at Showtime - boasts a roster of heavy hitters behind the scenes, including Steven Spielberg's Amblin Television, executive producers Neal Baer ( Law & Order: SVU) and Jack Bender ( Lost), and comic-book writer Brian K. Not that the 13-week "TV event," as it's being hyped, is much of a risk. Yet CBS is hoping for a captive audience when the network unveils its ambitious adaptation of Stephen King's novel about a quaint Maine town with a big problem. A terrible place to be trapped beneath an invisible force field. On June 5th, 2018, YouTuber Aerofiles uploaded "Deja Vu meme compilation" a supercut of videos using "Deja Vu." The post (shown below) received more than 6 million views in three years.Chester's Mill: A nice place to visit. The video (shown below, right) received more than 273,000 views in a year and a half. Two months later, on June 11th, 2016, the song was used in the video "I've just been in this meme before," which was uploaded by YouTuber MashAllPotatoes. On April 18th, 2016, YouTuber Naaquh uploaded "Eurobeat/Initial D WEBM Compilation #1." Within the compilation, several of the videos use "Deja Vu." As of January 2018, the video (shown below, left) has received more than 644,000 views. SUPER EUROBEAT presents INITIAL D SUPER EURO-BEST

Later that year, on November 22nd, 2000, the song was included on the Initial D compilation "Super Eurobeat Presents Initial D Super Euro Best." Several months later, on January 20th, 2000, the song was included on the 13th episode of Initial D Second Stage. On November 10th, 1999, the song "Deja Vu" by Dave Rogers on the compilation album Super Eurobeat Presents Euromach 2 (song heard below).
