UNDER THE DOME certainly has the length and breadth of the chunkier entries. While King has a reputation for doorstop-sized literature, there’s really only a handful of his tomes that truly live up to that reputation. There is an understandable urge to compare this to The Stand. Nobody knows how or why, but by gorry they will try to get out.Ī dome descends on Springfield in The Simpsons Movie In the fictional town of Chester’s Mill, somewhere in King’s Maine Literary Universe, the titular dome has descended over the town. Which is probably the mood that King wanted us Constant Readers to be in when we first cracked open this massive satire of life in post-9/11 America. It’s become a bit of an odd-bird of a pop cultural touchstone, the kind that feels more like a setup to a punchline at times. (King, for the records, claims to have not heard of The Simpsons Movie plot at the time of publication and we can probably put it down to one of those happy coincidences).Įven people who haven’t read UNDER THE DOME, or seen the TV series of the same name, know what it is about.

King had actually been playing with the idea since the late 1970s with the unpublished and unfinished novel The Cannibals, originally titled (you guessed it) Under the Dome. Yet the truth is not as clear-cut as all that. So, when UNDER THE DOME was published in 2009, many were quick to point out the similarities between that film and the plot of the movie and King’s novel. In The Simpsons Movie (2007), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) imprisoned Springfield under a giant glass dome. No matter what scenario you create in pop culture, The Simpsons got there first.

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