Watch A New Preview For Stephen King’s ‘Under The Dome’

Following last week’s first look at the wildly anticipated series, CBS today released a new preview for Brian K. Vaughan’s adaptation of Under the Dome. First published in 2009, Stephen King’s Under the Dome takes the plot of 2007’s The Simpsons Movie, and makes it real and scary.

Based solely on the fact that Vaughan is handling the adaptation (and also the fact that the plot sounds pretty damn cool), I can’t wait for this one to premiere. Brian K. Vaughan not only wrote my favourite comic series ever (Y: The Last Man), but also penned some of the best episodes of Lost, and his current books, Saga and Private Eye, are both incredible pieces of literature (and art) themselves.

Watch Under the Dome‘s new preview below, and let us know what you think! The show is set to premiere this Summer!

On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener’s hand is severed as “the dome” comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when—or if—it will go away.

 

Dale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a short-order cook, finds himself teamed with a few intrepid citizens—town newspaper owner Julia Shumway, a physician’s assistant at the hospital, a selectwoman, and three brave kids. Against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a politician who will stop at nothing—even murder—to hold the reins of power, and his son, who is keeping a horrible secret in a dark pantry. But their main adversary is the Dome itself. Because time isn’t just short. It’s running out.