| Rose Red |
Thursday June 14, 2001 Rose Red companion book. The 6 hour mini-series Rose Red, which will be airing in February 2002, has a tie-in book. Hyperion will be publishing it in January. It will be called The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red, which is supposedly a journal kept by one of the miniseries' characters. It's supposedly edited by Joyce Reardon, Ph.D, which could possibly be King himslef. stephenkingnews.com reports "The always informed Bev Vincent passed along a description of the (hardcover) book: "At the turn of the twentieth century, Ellen Rimbauer became the young bride of Seattle industrialist John Rimbauer, and began keeping a remarkable diary. This diary became the secret place where Ellen could confess her fears of the new marriage, her confusion over her emerging sexuality, and the nightmare that her life would become. The diary not only follows the development of a girl into womanhood, it follows the construction of the Rimbauer mansion -- called Rose Red -- an enormous home that would be the site of so many horrific and inexplicable tragedies in the years ahead. The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red is a rare document, one that gives us an unusual view of daily life among the aristocracy in the early 1900s, a window into one woman's hidden emotional torment, and a record of the mysterious events at Rose Red that scandalized Seattle society at the time -- events that can only be fully understood now that the diary has come to light. Edited by Joyce Reardon, Ph.D. as part of her research, the diary is being published as preparations are being made by Dr. Reardon to enter Rose Red and fully investigate its disturbing history." ______________________________________ Rose Red tv mini-series in post production. Rose Red, the ABC tv mini-series, wich will be directed by Mick Garris ( The Stand and The Shining mini-series) about a haunted house written by Stephen King, is in post production. Lakewood's Thornwood Castle will provide the exterior, at least for the house. A 3 million dollar set has been built, complete with cobwebs, moving walls, and all that other good stuff, that will serve as the interior for the fictional house, Rose Red. It is reported by Entertainment Tonight that King will have a cameo in the mini-series, portraying a pizza man that shows up at a critical point during the minin-series. David Dukes, who died of an apparent heart attack after a game of tennis toward the end of the crew's taping at Thornewood Castle in October,will appear in the final version of the film. He had completed most of his appearances, but had not yet filmed spots during which he reappears as a ghost. This scene will be added "tastefully". |
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| Picture from the mansion where some of it was filemed. |