The monsters, depicted in all their '90s-era CGI glory, look grotesquely artificial, but nonetheless have a creepy uncanniness to them. The writing is ridiculous in The Langoliers, and the performances are over the top Holland is obviously better at horror titles with elements of camp and comedy, and The Langoliers should be serious and laden with dread.
While The Langoliers doesn’t offer the kind of lovable, three-dimensional characters we are so familiar with from Lost, it does offer mystery and spookiness galore, and anticipated the weirdly popular 'missing airplane' TV series of the ensuing decades ( Lost, Manifest, Yellowjackets, Missing Nine, Flight 29 Down, The Wilds). He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.Related: Best Stephen King Books and Stories That Haven't Been Made Into a Movie King is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. The long novella is a form King has returned to over and over again, and many have been turned into celebrated films, TV series and streamed events including 1922, Apt Pupil, The Body (Stand By Me), The Langoliers, The Mist and Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption which was the basis of The Shawshank Redemption, IMDb's top-rated movie of all time. Biography: STEPHEN KING is the author of more than seventy books, all of them worldwide bestsellers.Ī spine-tingling, propulsive novella, The Langoliers is a brilliant read from the masterful Stephen King. Which means time is, quite literally, running out. Craig Toomy, an investment banker, believes he knows what's coming. And the sound, like 'radio static', is getting closer. Now he has to try to land the plane.īut the safe haven of Bangor airport is not what it seems. Brian Engle, a trained pilot, remembers something about a strange aurora borealis and turbulence reports over the desert. to Boston, ten passengers wake up to discover everyone else has disappeared.
He believed Flight 29 was heading east on automatic pilot. The flight attendants were gone almost all the passengers were gone Brian Engle was willing to bet the 767's two-man cockpit crew was also gone. 1 bestselling author Stephen King's unforgettable novella - first included in his 1990, award-winning collection Four Past Midnight and made into a highly acclaimed miniseries - about a terrifying plane ride into a most unfriendly sky is now available as a stand-alone publication.
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