Brian K. Vaughan to Adapt Under the Dome

So after last night’s story about Bryan Fuller making a television adaptation of Hannibal Lector (and sadly not making The Pie Maker of Fleet Street), today we learn that another great writer named Brian is developing a television adaptation of a property.  Brian K. Vaughan, creator of Y: The Last Man, Runaways, and Ex Machina (all great comics worth checking out) and a staff writer for later seasons of LOST, will be adapting Stephen King’s Under the Dome (which, if I remember correctly, includes a fictional LOST spin-off).  I’m not much of a King fan (The Shawshank Redemption and Kubrick’s version of The Shining were fantastic, though), but I’ve heard good things about Under the Dome, and Vaughan is a great writer, so I may have to check this out.

The Pie Maker of Fleet Street

It was announced today that Bryan Fuller, creator of Wonderfalls, Dead Like Me, and Pushing Daisies, sold a television show version of the Hannibal Lector stories to NBC.  To me, this news did nothing more than remind me that Pushing Daisies is no longer on the air.  (Sadly, I forgot to mention both Pushing Daisies and Deadwood in my Greatest Shows No One Watched post.)  Fortunately, there are many others like me out there, and, like with Stratford-On-Hellmouth, a new dream was born: Sweeney Todd with the cast of Pushing Daisies.

Led by Stratford-On-Hellmouth’s Les and joined by Kate, we set about filling all the roles.  We ended up with the following:

Sweeney Todd: Lee Pace

Mrs. Lovett: Kristin Chenoweth

Judge Turpin: Stephen Root

Beggar Woman: Ellen Greene

Beadle Bamford: Chi McBride

Aldolfo Pirelli: Paul Reubens

Anthony Hope: Raul Esparaza

Johanna Todd: Anna Friel

Toby: Field Cate

Ghost Narrators: Jim Dale, Sy Richardson

If Joss Whedon can do Shakespeare in his spare time, Bryan Fuller must be allowed to do this.