How do you take Stephen King's words and make them into dialogue.

I started by going into Stephen King's mind, which is a very interesting and surprising place to be. As a writer adapting his stories, you deconstruct what he's done and then help them dramatically to provide the audience insight into where Stephen King wants them to go. In this story, we have a guy who doesn't say anything except in his mind, so he's talking to the audience. For the viewers I created action and emotion around that situation. It is a challenge and a pleasure to dramatize ideas from one of the great writers of our generation.

How do you create tension when your main character doesn't speak to any other characters?

It helps a lot to have an actor like Richard Thomas, who brings such humanity to this character. In a very few series of flashbacks, you know everything about him, his sex life and his desires. When you cut to the autopsy room, the audience really feels for him because of this great character he has already portrayed. There are also other characters who make the story like a wicked farce because they are distracted from a very tense situation. The mystery and suspense comes from the audience not knowing when the coroners are going to cut into the live man on the table, the man they think is dead.

How do you make the story interesting when it all happens in one place?

It is called a "bottle show" for the reason that the entire story takes place in one room. The challenge is to make the voiceover compelling, to make his emotions very accessible to the audience and to have people around him always in motion playing their own track. There are really three or four tracks of drama in this one room: the doctors, the orderlies, his fiancée, and his best friend who found him "dead" on the golf course. All of that is inter-cut in a way that keeps the suspense until the very end, when there is a major surprise.