Trivia / Repairman Jack

• Development Hell: Years ago F. Paul Wilson sold film/TV rights to The Tomb to Beacon Films. The idea had been to title a film "Repairman Jack" and turn Jack into a franchise character. The project has spent over 20 years in development hell, chewing up 6 or 7 writers who've churned out reams of scripts. Since late 2012, the talk has been to produce Repairman Jack as a TV series but nothing to date has come of it.
• Executive Meddling: There is no tomb in The Tomb the publisher insisted on the title. Wilson had just released The Keep and the publishers wanted to maintain the naming convention despite it being (at the time) unrelated. Why Wilson didn't at least call it "The Temple" or "The Freighter" (creepy locales it does include) isn't clear.