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Maximum Overdrive is a 1986 American horror film written and directed by Stephen King, in his only directorial effort. [5] The film stars Emilio Estevez , Pat Hingle , Laura Harrington , and Yeardley Smith .
In 1986, it was adapted for cinema with the King-directed Maximum Overdrive, which King himself described as "a critical and financial flop". [ 2 ] In 1997, it was adapted again as the TV movie Trucks , starring Timothy Busfield , Brenda Bakke , and Brendan Fletcher , which Video Business called "Mindless, but well-executed and rarely boring ...
Such add-on overdrive boxes were available from the 1930s to the 1970s for cars and light trucks. Today, most petrol and diesel cars and trucks come with an overdrive transmission because of the benefit to fuel economy. [4] Overdrive is included in both automatic and manual transmissions as an extra gear (or two in some cases). [5]
Trucks is a 1997 horror television film directed by Chris Thomson, which follows the story of a group of tourists and locals attacked by autonomous trucks and other inexplicable phenomena in a rural town.
Although Subotsky was involved with several King adaptations (Cat's Eye, Maximum Overdrive, Sometimes They Come Back, The Lawnmower Man) the television series never happened due to conflicts with the networks' Standards and Practices. [5] The following film, television, and theatre adaptations are adapted from the stories in Night Shift:
Also according to AC/DC: Maximum Rock & Roll, years later, Stephen King convinced the band to do the soundtrack for his film Maximum Overdrive (the soundtrack released as Who Made Who) by putting "Ain't No Fun" on the record player and singing along to the entire song line-for-line in order to prove how much of a fan he was of their music.
An accident occurred on 31 July 1985, during shooting in a suburb of Wilmington, North Carolina, for Maximum Overdrive. A radio controlled lawnmower used in a scene went out of control and struck a block of wood used as a camera support, shooting out wood splinters which injured Nannuzzi, the director of photography on the production.
Overdrive, forcing amplifier output past maximum; see Distortion (music) Art, entertainment and media ... Overdrive, a 2013 release by Belgian singer Natalia;