Reed Faster Speculates: The Watchers Movie vs. Novel
Movies from books are not a new thing. From portions of the Judeo-Christian bible to comic books, we don’t lack for material to bring to the big screen. However, when taking a book to film, many things might have to be sacrificed or changed for the sake of audience understanding or because of the limits of the technology available to produce the material effectively. Many books-to-movies fall woefully short of their source material, often because the vision of the author isn’t easy to translate or because the director has a different view of what is happening. (I’m notably reminded of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining and Stephen King’s dislike of it.) You don’t have to read the book to enjoy the movie, and vice versa. However, I do occasionally catch myself comparing them. My latest foray into this was The Watchers, a book written by A.M. Shine and directed by Ishana Night Shyamalan (child of the famous M.Night Shymalan, who produces this film). Check the trailer below: Now, as far as b
