Author Emily St. John Mandel was not involved in the HBO adaptation of her hit novel 'Station Eleven.' But series creator Patrick Somerville had her blessing to change it.
Tweaks are inevitable in any spine-to-screen adaptation, and this 10-episode series “departs significantly [from the book] in details, events, characters and characterizations,” writes Times critic Robert Lloyd, who has also. “It jumps between periods to build out character relations and motivations, and to plant the seeds of coincidence that will flower into closure.”
Throughout the process, the creative team prioritized expectations from the wide “Station Eleven” readership. “The bar is incredibly high, not just in casting and storytelling but also in the details: How do you make these things, which someone just wrote from her imagination, functional and real on-screen?” says executive producer Jessica Rhoades. “Authors everywhere create things, but you actually don’t have to make choices about what they look like.
Readers may be taken aback by the series’ pairing of Jeevan with Kirsten , a child actor in the aforementioned play who is unable to reunite with her parents, for numerous foundational scenes. “In the book, the experience of the chaos from the pandemic is all internal and independent, but telling a story that way on TV is not very interesting,” says Somerville.
“We started from scratch with Miranda in terms of where she came from and how that graphic novel is incredibly grounded in her character,” Somerville says of the comic that shares the title of the series. “We wanted to show the life of an artist and not do it in an eye-roll way. In the end, to us, she feels like a real person.”
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