Don’t get me wrong – I love Stephen King – but when he deviates from his formula, it’s pretty great and The Green Mile is one of those examples.

The film, which was released on Blu-ray this week, stars Tom Hanks as a prison guard who must oversee death row at Cold Mountain Penitentiary which is nicknamed “the green mile” because of the color of the flooring.  It’s a tough job that is only made more difficult by the fact that one of the inmates is a man who might be divine in some way since he’s able to perform miracles.  His gift is misunderstood and, because he is a black man, he suffers due to the ignorance and intolerance of others.

It’s a very long movie (over three hours long) and it’s incredibly emotional but it’s also very interesting and well-made.

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The pair will be working on a limited event series based on King’s Under The Dome under Dreamworks TV.   Of course, the plot unfolds in a small tourist trap of a town in Maine.  Some sort of force comes down on the area and the locals end up at war with each other.

I’m not surprised at all that this all goes down in Maine.  Heck, Stephen King has scared me off the area so much that I have never been there and I used to live so close!

Doesn’t this sound like Storm of the Century and about a million other storylines developed by King?  What makes this one so special?  I guess we’ll have to wait to find out.

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