 Nannuzzi briefly worked in the United States in the mid-1980s, and during this period he collaborated with horror novelist Stephen King on "Maximum Overdrive", King's directorial debut.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.