David Lynch tried to give Stephen King a filmmaking lesson in directing the most overriding

Stephen King is one of the most respected storytellers of his generation – or anyone. The word abundantly deals with the output of the man, from his earliest works as “Salem’s Lot” to more recent masterpieces as “revival.” For decades now, King’s works have inspired dozens of various quality TV films and TV shows. In each of those years, King directed one of those movies himself in form “Overdrive maximum,” a piece of truly bonkers cinema with a wild story behind. At least one small part of that story contains none other than David Lynch.

King recently appeared as a guest “The Kingcast” And discuss the film. Released in Summer ’86, the film was based on the short story “Trucks” from the short story collection “Night Shift.” It rises after a strange comet passes the ground, causing lorries and other machines to come to life. They start killing people quickly. The majority of the story takes place at the Dixie Boy truck stop where a Ragtag group finds itself trapped. Disorder follows.

“At that time, I was doing a lot of cocaine and I drank a lot,” King reflected. That explains why King has repeatedly apologized for making the film over the years. The author further explained that Lynch happened to be filming his nearby “Blue Velvet” masterpiece.

“I thought I knew how to make movies,” King said. “I learned so much ‘maximum override.’ It was like this intense seminar.

The crew, as it happened, mainly did not speak English, which produced on “upper overdrive” is extremely difficult. “The only thing I learned is how to swear in Italian,” said the king. This became a problem when a King crew member, Camera operator Daniele Nannannedzzi, was trying to explain why a blow he wanted was not going to work. The language barrier was succeeding.

“I had a certain way that I wanted to move the camera and it would have said, ‘No, no Stephen! It crosses the line!’ We can’t really understand it, “King explained. “The way you shoot threesome is English freshness, and this cross is like a seminar.”

What Nannannion was trying to explain was something called 180 degree rule. I’m not a movie maker, but basically the rule says when you shoot two people, you stay on the same side to 180 degrees because if you cross that line , It messes with the ability of the audience to know where characters are in relation to each other and the environment. The people made a great video riot explaining it, you can watch here.

For experienced filmmakers, this is a accepted rule. For King, writer, it was a foreign concept. Enter the recent, great David Lynch, who died recently at the age of 78. King ran into Lynch after wrapping up filming one day and deciding to run this little issue by him. Lynch did his best to explain to King, but things didn’t go out exactly.

“I had finished shooting for the day, and I said, ‘May I talk to you for a minute?’ He wears his trademark white shirt, he had khaki pants on, he smoked a cigarette, I was smoking a cigarette, and I said, ‘What is this about the line?’ He tried to explain how, if you have the camera on one side, you can shoot the other side, and if you have there, you can shoot the other. He said, ‘I don’t know, just shoot it your way.’ He didn’t know what he was either.

The movie turned out how he turned out, which was a bit of a wreck. King has not been kind to his work on “upper overdrive” over the yearsBut the film has gone on to find something of a zealous cult following. Co-host “The Kingcast” is one such fan, and that’s what prompted the conversation in the first place. If nothing else, it is quite wonderful to imagine these two myths meeting in the ’80s to have such a discussion over a cigarette.

You can grab the Collector’s edition of “Overdrive Maximum” on Blu-ray from Amazon.