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Description: Rose Red is an original TV screenplay that is an expansion of a previously written, but unpublished, work. It is a 3 part, 6 hour miniseries for ABC, and aired during 3 consecutive nights in February 2002. The story is about Rose Red, a haunted mansion built by an Oil magnate in the early 1900's. Joyce Reardon, a psychology professor, employs an autistic girl to wake the ghosts of the people that have died there in the past. The cast includes Nancy Travis, Kimberly Brown, and other names such as Judith Ivey, Julian Sands, Matt Keeslar, Kevin Tighe, Emily Deschanel, Yvonne Scio, Matt Ross, and Tsidii LeLoca. King is returning as an executive producer along with Mark Carliner, and the series is to be directed by Craig Baxley, and produced by Thomas Brodek. Hyperion is putting out a tie-in book in January 2002 called The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red, reportedly a journal kept by one of the miniseries' key characters. It's edited by Joyce Reardon, Ph.D. Here's SK's description of the evolution/devolution of Rose Red: It went into turnaround. Steven Spielberg and I have tried to work together on a couple of occasions, starting with "Poltergeist," and we've never been able to do it. I think it just wasn't meant to happen. I don't have anything for him except the best feelings in the world. What happened with "Rose Red" was that he stayed in touch and asked if I still wanted to a haunted house story. So I did this screenplay and Steven said, "Yeah, this is great. This is going to be fantastic and I have a couple of ideas." The thing is, if you stand too close to that guy you get flash burns, that's how bright he is. And he will wear you out. So I incorporated the ideas he had -- because they were fabulous ideas. And he looked at the screenplay and said, "Well, OK, but this isn't motivated, and by the way I have a couple of other ideas." So I did a third draft. And by then it had gotten a pretty good distance away from where I started and Steven knew that. Steven also wanted a bigger, more positive kind of feeling than I wanted to go for. He wanted the WHOOOOOSH thing and I wanted to scare the sh*t out of people. We finally got to a point where it seemed like the best thing for me was to step away. Characters:
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