Stephen King's Desperation is Stephen King's television movie adaptation of his own novel of the same name, which was filmed in 2004 and broadcast in 2006. The film is directed by frequent King collaborator Mick Garris and stars Ron Perlman as Collie Entragian, Tom Skerritt, Steven Weber and Annabeth Gish. Filming primarily took place in Bisbee, Arizona, in the nearly deserted Lowell borough, with other sequences in Old Bisbee, the outskirts of Bisbee and Tucson, Arizona. During filming, a set in the Tucson Convention Center caught fire. Five people were injured. The fire destroyed... everything on the set, including all production gear and equipment, and the TCC was heavily damaged. The film closely follows the plot of the novel and has received moderate reviews, including a 46 rating from Metacritic. Though originally intended as a two-part miniseries, Desperation aired in its three-hour entirety on May 23, 2006, on ABC, after a red-carpet premiere screening at Tucson's historic Fox Theatre . ABC aired Desperation at the same time as Fox's American Idol, an action that King himself was upset with; thus, it did not do well in the ratings.
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| Release date: | May 23, 2006 |
| Directed by: | Mick Garris |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 180 Minutes |
| Producer: | Stephen King, Mick Garris, Mark Sennet, Bruce Dunn, Kelly Van Horn |
| Screenplay by: | Stephen King |
| Estimated budget: | $12,000,000 |
| Adapted from: | Desperation |