Hot off the box office success of IT, King just died for another adaptation of his work.
Over the years, Stephen King has made cameo appearances in a handful of films, mini-series’ and TV shows based on his stories, including Maximum Overdrive, Pet Sematary, Sleepwalkers and “Under the Dome.” He just continued the tradition on last night’s episode of the Audience Network’s “Mr. Mercedes”!
On last night’s sixth episode of the series, an adaptation of King’s 2014 novel, main character Brady Hartsfield had a daydream sequence inside of a diner, wherein he imagined that everyone in the building had been brutally murdered. Among the bodies littering the diner? Stephen King himself, playing a freshly-dead cook.
“Mr. Mercedes” airs every Wednesday night on the Audience Network.
“Mr. Mercedes follows demented killer Brady Hartsfield, who taunts a retired police detective Bill Hodges with a series of lurid letters and emails, forcing the ex-cop to undertake a private, and potentially felonious, crusade to bring the killer to justice before he is able to strike again.”
Brendan Gleeson leads the show’s cast as Detective Bill Hodges, along with Harry Treadaway (Penny Dreadful) as Brady Hartsfield.
