Steven King is one of his most respected storytellers - or any generation. The word fruitful hardly covers the production of man, from his earliest works as "Salem of Many" to the recent masterpiece -"Renaissance". For decades now, King's works have inspired dozens of films and TV shows of varying quality. In all those years, King directed only one of those films in the form of "Maximum Excessive", really a piece of cinema with a wild story behind it. At least a small part of that story includes no one but David Lynch.

King recently appeared as a guest of "King" and talked about the film. Published in the summer of '86, the film was based on the story "Trucks" from the "Night shift" story collection. It rises after a strange comet passes by Earth, causing trucks and other machines to revive. They quickly start killing people. Most of the story takes place on the Dixie Boy truck, where the Ragtag group is captured. Chaos follows.

"At the time, I was doing a lot of cocaine and I drank a lot," King reflected. That explains why King was constantly apologizing for filming the movie over the years. The author further explained that Lynch also happened to film his masterpiece -"Blue Velvet" nearby at the same time.

"I thought I knew how to make movies," King said. "I learned so much making" maximum excessive ". It was like this intensive seminar.

Crew, as it turned out, mostly did not speak English, which made the production of "maximally excessive" too hard. "The only thing I learned is how to swear in Italian," King gave up. This became a problem when a member of King's crew, camera operator Daniel Nanuzi, was trying to explain why the footage he wanted to achieve will not work. The language barrier was moving on the road.

"I had a way that I wanted to move the camera and he would say," No, no, not Stephen! Crosses the line! "I couldn't understand that," King explained. "The way you shoot a threesome is freshman English, and this line crossing is like a seminar."

What Nancuzi was trying to explain was something called the 180 -degree rule. I'm not a director, but basically, the rule says that when shooting two people, you stay on the same side of 180 degrees because if you cross that line, it interferes with the ability of the audience to know where the characters are about each other and the surroundings. People in the movie Riot made a great video explaining that, that you can see it right here.

For experienced directors, this is an accepted rule. For King, a writer, it was a foreign concept. Enter the late, great David Lynch, who recently died at the age of 78. King ran to Lynch after finishing filming one day and decided to lead this little question. Lynch did his best to explain it to King, but things didn't miss things right.

"I ended up shooting for that day and said," Can I talk to you for a minute? "He carries his trademark white shirt, he had khaki pants, smoked a cigarette, smoked a cigarette and said," What about the line? "He tried to explain how, if you have the camera on one side, you can shoot it The other side, and if you have it there, you can shoot the other. Shoot characters around a moving table, it's really confusing. 'Then he said, "I don't know, just shoot your way." He didn't know what it was. "

The film turned out to be a little train. King was not kinded with his work on "maximally over -over" over the yearsBut the film continued to find something of a dedicated cult. Co-host "King", Eric Wesp is one such fan, which is what caused the conversation in the first place. If nothing else, it is quite wonderful to imagine these two legends meeting in the 1980s to have such a cigarette discussion.

You can grab it Blu-ray collecting edition of Amazon's "Maximum Excessive".