Dear Friends,
A lot of new material related to the forthcoming MR MERCEDES TV series was released, as well as art that will be used for the US tie-in edition. First, here’s the artwork:
Here’s the teaser trailer:
https://sonarent.com/titles/mr-mercedes
Parts of the teaser trailer were used for exclusive content on USA Today:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2017/06/02/exclusive-sneak-peek-stephen-king-mr-mercedes-series/102393064/
Here’s a link to the newly-launched website, which includes new photos, character bios and clips:
http://start.att.net/exclusive/audience/mr-mercedes/index.html
New York Times bestselling thriller writer Dennis Lehane (MYSTIC RIVER, SHUTTER ISLAND) wrote four of the ten episodes (including the season finale) and had this to say in a recent interview (the full content of which can be found below:
You’re adapting Mr. Mercedes for TV right now. What’s that been like?
I think it’s a really good examination of the post-2008 meltdown in America and the rage and helplessness that went along with that. It’s not a mistake that the book was set in Ohio. It starts off with a bunch of job seekers — job seekers — getting run over by someone in a Mercedes — these are all metaphors… I locked into the material in a way that I’ve never locked into anything else in TV. We’re writing about the America that got left behind, the America that just decided the 2016 election. The America that feels very angry and very abandoned and no matter how I feel about their election I think their feelings are absolutely understandable. We left them holding the bag. We left them with a bunch of empty factories, a bunch of holes in the ground and lots of lost manufacturing jobs. That’s the prism through which I’ve written Mr. Mercedes. There’s not a single scene in that show that I’m not filtering through that idea. I think we’ve got something really cool.
http://www.torontosun.com/2017/06/05/dennis-lehane-talks-new-novel-since-we-fell-adapting-stephen-king-and-why-well-never-see-a-sequel-to-mystic-river