Perhaps it was penance that brought Pierce Brosnan back to Stephen King’s Dominion. After leading 1992’s The Lawnmower Man, an “adaptation” whose producers King sued in a bid to get his name removed, the actor signed onto director Mick Garris’ Bag of Bones, a 2011 A&E miniseries that’s nothing if not faithful to its source material. (That 19 years separate the two projects is surely not a coincidence.)
Brosnan delivers an intriguingly odd performance as Mike Noonan, a character King himself has said is “probably as close as you could get to me,” and Losers Randall Colburn, Mel Kassel, and Dan Pfleegor spend a good chunk of their dissection trying to figure out if it’s so bad it’s good or just, you know, good. Elsewhere, they touch on the scares, the script, and what happens when you excise (most of) the sex from what is easily King’s horniest book.
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