Salem's Lot

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1. #001

   According to Rob Lowe, during the filming of the final confrontation with Kurt Barlow, Rutger Hauer went off-script but stayed in character and launched into a strange, rambling monologue about wanting to be a cowboy. Director Mikael Salomon was unimpressed, quickly shouted "Cut!" and asked Hauer what he was doing. After a very tense negotiation, Hauer agreed to stick to the original script, but he had not bothered to learn the two-page original speech he had written, so he had to read it from cue cards.

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2. #002

   During production, James Cromwell (Father Donald Callahan) was married to Julie Cobb, who had played Bonnie Sawyer in the previous adaptation, Salem's Lot (1979).

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3. #003

   Around three hundred extras were used during production.

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4. #004

   Andre Braugher, who played Matt Burke, went on to play another character with the surname Norton in the later Stephen King film adaptation The Mist (2007).

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5. #005

   In the novel the town is called Jerusalem's Lot, and both it and Sidewinder from "The Shining" appear in another Stephen King novel, "Doctor Sleep."

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6. #006

   The character Matt Burke was Ben Mears's eighth-grade English teacher. In real life, Andre Braugher was only two years older than Rob Lowe.

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7. #007

   In Salem's Lot (1979), Ben Mears (David Soul) drove a yellow Jeep. In this miniseries, Susan Norton (Samantha Mathis) drove a yellow Jeep.

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8. #008

   Actor Donald Sutherland died exactly 20 years before the date this miniseries aired (June 20, 2024). He was 88 years old. His death came only a few weeks before the 40th anniversary of the death of James Mason, who died in July 1984. Mason had also played the character Richard Straker in the original screen adaptation of Salem's Lot (1979) 25 years earlier.

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9. #009

   One of the men on the search team refers to his dog as Cujo, a reference to Stephen King's novel of the same name.

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10. #010

    During the karaoke scene, the song Stand By Me can be heard (and its lyrics can be seen on screen). King also wrote The Body, the novella on which the 1986 film Stand By Me was based.

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