And while we're at it, let's also look at the subsequent TV movie version of the same narrative, named after its literary predecessor, and see which among the two works the best (and if you're familiar with all three, you probably know where this is going). So let's talk about the time he adapted his own short story "Trucks" (from the excellent Night Shift collection) into the so-bad-it's-good, AC/DC-scored gore fest called Maximum Overdrive.
Abrams called Castle Rock, which is set in King's fictional town of the same name and the author has already published two new fictional works, co-written with his son Owen and Cemetery Dance founder Richard Chizmar, respectively.Īnd since this is King's year, what better time to look back over his previous work. There are two major cinematic adaptations of his work on the way- The Dark Tower and It there's a new TV show with co-producer J.J. This 1961 Peterbilt 351, complete with its tanker from 1946, is the only surviving truck used in the movie.It's safe to call 2017 "The Year of the King," in that the master of horror Stephen King is all over the place. Since the original truck was destroyed, two more were built to look like it. But after Duel aired on TV, Universal wanted to release it in theaters, and 74 minutes was too short for a theatrical release, so additional scenes were filmed. Only one truck was used while filming the original TV movie, which was famously destroyed when it plunged off a cliff at the end.
Spielberg has made references to it in many of his later movies, from reusing camera angles during the truck chase in Raiders of the Lost Ark to putting cameos of minor Duel characters into his later films. Though a bit rough around the edges-the movie was filmed in just 11 days-Spielberg's unique directorial style is clearly there he credits Duel as his big break. Spielberg made the best of the simple story. Yet it earned number six on The Drive's list of the top ten car movies of all time. The Aficionauto recently took a tour and a test drive of one of the most famous trucks in movie history.įor most people, Duel was a forgettable TV movie with a rather weak plot, nothing more than a beat-up old semi-truck chasing David Mann, played by Dennis Weaver, in his Plymouth Valiant for 74 minutes. Only one example of the film's uncredited main character, a 1955 Peterbilt 281, remains in existence. Few people besides true movie buffs and gearheads have heard of Duel, which was Steven Spielberg's first full-length movie. Before Schindler's List, before Jurassic Park and Indiana Jones, even before Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, there was Duel.
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