How The Timekeepers Of Eternity Fixes The Worst Stephen King Adaptation
The Timekeepers Of Eternity sets out to retool the Stephen King miniseries The Langoliers, which is often considered one of the worst adaptations of the author's work. Ever since Carrie was published in the '70s, King has been a household name in horror. While his writing has spanned everything from heartwarming drama to fantasy, he's proven time and again with works like The Shining, IT, The Mist and many others that he has a total understanding of the horror genre. That has also been shown by the almost endless movie and TV adaptations of his work.
King's movie adaptations range from the sublime to the unwatchable. For every Shawshank Redemption or Misery, there's aGraveyard Shift or Maximum Overdrive. The '90s was something of a golden age for miniseries versions of his chunkier novels, withIT receiving a solid adaptation in 1990 — featuring a terrifying performance by Tim Curry — and the underrated The Storm Of The Century. However, some of these series missed the mark, as is the case with 1995's The Langoliers.
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Helmed by Fright Night's Tom Holland, The Langoliers adapted a novella of the same name from King collection Four Past Midnight. The story sees a flight of passengers landing at an empty airport and discovering they've passed through some kind of time rift. It's a great story but the miniseries turned out to be a drab, lifeless slog, and it features some infamously terrible CGI to bring the title monsters to life. That said, the Stephen King miniseries is bolstered by the scenery-chewing performance of Bronson Pinchot as a broker named Toomy. While the miniseries is not fondly regarded, a fascinating new art film dubbed The Timekeepers
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