Hill was asked to contribute a prose story to the 2009 tribute anthology He Is Legend, which featured writers’ takes on their favorite Matheson works, and he immediately thought of Duel and wanted to do something with his father.
“We shared that movie together. That was something that mattered intensely to both of us,” Hill says.
“He had an idea about a motorcycle gang and a trucker who’s following them, and it looked like pure action from beginning to end,” King recalls. “I said, ‘Let’s do it, let’s step on it.’ “
The two finished the story in about a week, each rewriting the other’s chunks of prose, “and it all blended together into one smooth creamy us milkshake,” Hill says.
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