![]() ![]() It’s also not the only one of those works to hit the screen in fact, the Bill Hodges trilogy was similarly turned into a series (see: Audience’s cruelly ignored Mr. It’s one of a handful of novels King has written over the last 10 years that capitalize on the true crime wave, focusing less on the things that go bump in the night, and more on the forensics and procedurals that have since turned everyone on Reddit into a pathologist. In that respect, The Outsider makes perfect sense for Price, at least if he’s going to venture into King’s Dominion. ![]() You know, stuff that hits home, makes us think, gets under our skin. For HBO, he’s written some of their sharpest offerings in this century, from The Wire to The Night Of to The Deuce. For decades, the guy’s built a reputation of delivering tough-as-nails thrillers, all steeped in reality, and awash with the kind of stakes that feel less like fiction and more like headline news. Not that he’s above the Master of Horror or anything, but seeing Richard Price attached to this project still feels like a lucid dream. The Price You Pay: HBO spared no expense for this Stephen King adaptation, and it shows, but particularly off screen. ![]()
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