20 Mind-Blowing Facts You Never Knew About Stephen King
8. ...Who Might Have Ripped Him Off
That said, King mightn't be leaping at the chance to jam with Groening again. The author has a number of so-called trunk novels books which he got a fair ways into, or even completed, only to put them away in a drawer of trunk to be rediscovered and dusted off years later, if at all. 11/22/63 is one such book, and his rejected early novel The Long Walk was later published as a Bachman book.
Another such book was Under The Dome, which was finally finished in 2009 and has recently been turned into a decidedly middle-of-the-road TV series. Even for King, it's a big bloody phonebook of a novel, telling the story of a small American town that finds itself enclosed under a huge dome for reasons unknown.
Sound familiar? Yep, pretty much the same premise as The Simpsons Movie. King started on Under The Dome then called The Cannibals all the way back in the eighties. The Simpsons Movie came out in 2007. The author has stated that he sees nothing more than a casual connection between the two works, but c'mon, besides Spider-Pig? Basically identical.