Richard Price's concept of Holly was a little bit different than mine. Which is closer to how you envisioned her? Mercedes and The Outsider, we're now in a world in which there are two Holly Gibneys on television, played by Justine Lupe and Cynthia Erivo. So I think they did the right thing.īetween Mr. We'll just say that there's a jaw-dropping moment at the end of season 2. I'll just say that it seemed like the right thing to do and it comes to a rather spectacular conclusion. Then they had to change things a bit because of the backstory of Finders Keepers. They wanted to keep a timeline, it fit things. Well, I think they did that because they wanted to finish with the story of Brady Hartsfield. What did you think of the show's decision to rearrange the books? So that book 2 was covered by season 3? So I'd love to see it, but the three seasons are there and they're pretty darn good. And then after a while, they're really good at what they're doing and dig deeper into the character. They have a way of settling in - like into a new house.

I think the actors would like to see it happen because they got into those parts. STEPHEN KING: I would love to see that happen. Fans are wondering if a fourth season could happen what are your thoughts on that? Mercedes went through your three books, and the ending was well-received and sort of tied things up.

'Now people are going to get a chance to see it.'ĮNTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: The three seasons of Mr. Mercedes at AT&T we had brought a stadium show to a folk club,' King says.

'I'm so happy that Peacock is doing this because I felt like with Mr. King hopes the drama will have a better shot at finding mainstream success when its first two seasons come to Peacock this week. Mercedes, a series that received strong praise from critics (with a 93 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes) yet reached relatively few viewers on the now-defunct Audience Network. Not to mention, King released another best-selling book this year (a quartet of novellas under the title If It Bleeds) and has two more planned for 2021.ĮW spoke with King about all his TV projects and, of course, dipped a bit into politics as well. Mercedes, which moves to its new home on Peacock on Thursday, Oct. There's HBO's stealth breakout The Outsider, which launched in January CBS All Access' take on King's suddenly timely pandemic classic The Stand which premieres in December, and Audience Network's adaptation of King's Bill Hodges crime novel trilogy Mr. Stephen King may be well into his fourth decade as a blockbuster storyteller, yet TV adaptations of his work have never been more popular. With America experiencing what's objectively its most terrifying year of the 21st century, it's perhaps only appropriate that the master of horror is having one of his best.

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