When I wrote it, I tried to divorce myself from thinking about if there was an apocalypse or not. Even more so now that the years have passed.
Because I know some people don’t think my ending is very hopeful, but I find my ending defiantly hopeful. I wanted the book to try to mirror the anxieties and fears so many of us were feeling. What were you trying to explore with it then, and how has its meaning evolved for you over the years?
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Below, the author mulls over the film’s ending and other changes from the book the novel’s five-year journey from page to screen the advice he received from Stephen King on how to handle seeing his work adapted and the tip he’d give to other writers dipping their toes into Hollywood: “Get an entertainment lawyer.” “I think the movie’s ending is way darker than my book,” said Tremblay. Left alone to decide humanity’s fate, they reject the choice itself, defying any god that would put them through hell, enduring hate and homophobia to find their way to happiness, only to take their daughter and still demand more. Tremblay’s book travels a more complex path: Wen is accidentally killed when Andrew and Leonard struggle over a gun, leaving her dads to make their decision in the throes of unimaginable grief. Andrew is later shown with a grown Wen, their family having averted disaster in the nick of time. In the movie, it’s for her future that her fathers make the ultimate sacrifice as Eric - who becomes increasingly open to the possibility that the strangers’ visions are true - makes peace with the gamble and convinces Andrew to kill him.
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While the novel never says if Leonard, Adriane, Sabrina and Redmond’s visions are real - or if the news reports they point to as evidence of the apocalypse are concrete proof, rather than coincidence - the movie makes it explicit, vindicating the strangers’ actions.Īrguably the biggest difference is the fate of the young girl, Wen. Some changes from book to film are relatively minor, such as the order and manner in which some of the home invaders perish, compelled by an unseen power to die in ritualistic violence mostly kept offscreen (a stark contrast to the gory details that lend the book more intense brutality and dread).Ī more significant change involves information that both the characters and audience are given. “There were times where I was tearing up at random things just because, wow, it was right out of the book - and other times I felt like I wanted to run out of the theater,” Tremblay said with a laugh on Sunday, chatting from his home outside Boston. They’re changes the author himself admits he’s still processing, days after watching the film for the first time at its New York City premiere. The film diverges from the novel’s conclusion and, perhaps, what meaning viewers will take from the story. (That’s pretty much the only explanation we get.For much of the film, the screenplay, by Shyamalan, Steve Desmond and Michael Sherman, hews faithfully to the tense beats and details of Tremblay’s novel. How Do the Knock-ees Know This Particular Family Needs to Make a Sacrifice? Per the rules of the knock-ees’ shared vision, they aren’t allowed to be involved in the actual sacrifice - only Eric, Andrew, and Wen are supposed to make the choice and kill the person chosen. Yep, that’s the crux of this old-fashioned trolley problem-esque thought experiment, with the addition of scary-looking handmade medieval-style weapons, which the knock-ees use to keep Eric, Andrew, and Wen hostage (among other things). (If Eric, Andrew, and Wen choose not to sacrifice someone, then the three of them survive while the rest of humanity burns.) So, One Person Has to Die to Save Billions? The knock-ees are Leonard ( Dave Bautista), Redmond ( Rupert Grint), Sabrina (Nikki Amuka-Bird), and Adriane (Abby Quinn), four strangers who have had a shared vision of the apocalypse, which can only be prevented if Eric and Andrew and Wen choose to sacrifice one member of their family. So the cabin being knocked upon is a rental located no-cell-phone-reception deep in the woods, where parents Eric ( Jonathan Groff) and Andrew (Ben Aldridge) are vacationing with their young daughter Wen (Kristen Cui). Okay, Let’s Start With This: There’s a Cabin? Who’s Knocking at It?
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