Stephen King's thriller 'Mr. Mercedes' gets another chance
The IndependentFor free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. And that was enormously frustrating,” says director Jack Bender “Hopefully it’s going to get the audience it’s always deserved." The pitch-dark series — adapted by David E. Kelley and starring Brendan Gleeson — is based on Stephen King’s bestselling Bill Hodges trilogy and follows a retired, ornery detective tormented by a seriously troubled serial killer who announces himself by mowing down dozens of people in line for a job fair in a stolen Mercedes. “My intention was always to do a character driven, scary show about the monster inside these people instead of the monster outside the people,” says Bender. Mercedes” and calls him “a unique, brilliantly drawn, complicated character.” He calls the story “electric.” Treadway says one of his most powerful memories is watching King's “The Shinning” with Jack Nicholson and called King's trilogy “such a page-turner.
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Stephen King’s thriller ‘Mr. Mercedes’ gets another chance
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