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TIL Stephen King’s fictional town of Castle Rock was inspired by the fictional mountain fort of the same name in Lord of the Flies, in turn inspired the name of Rob Reiner’s production company, Castle Rock Entertainment, which produced the film Lord of the Flies (1990).

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