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Mercedes television show is staying faithful to the book, but the writers did make one big change aside from adding new characters. Mercedes - who is actually a disturbed young man named Brady Hartsfield - original actor Anton Yelchin was replaced by Harry Treadaway after his tragic death in 2016. 'When they sent me the first script, I said, 'Hmm, she’s not in the book but she’s so smart and straight ahead and what she says is outrageous… yeah, that could be a Stephen King character.' I loved it,' King told Variety. He specifically points out Holland Taylor, who plays Hodges' neighbor, an original character. The author also seems pleased about the other casting choices in the series as well.

'He looks exactly the way I had imagined Hodges would look,' King said to Variety. When he wrote the book, King says that he imagined Hodges to look similar to actor Brendan Gleeson, who wound up in the role. Mercedes' letter and what he remembers from the case before he retired to uncover the truth. Compelled to investigate, Hodges uses the 'Mr. In the original story, former detective Bill Hodges receives a letter from a man who claims he murdered a group of innocent people with a Mercedes-Benz. You don’t want to think they just bought the launching pad, but they bought the rocket, too.' 'I think it’s good when they stick as close to the story as they can,' he said, 'because that’s what they bought. 'It isn’t a one-to-one translation, it’s pretty close,' King said in the Variety piece, 'but everything that they did really added to it.' King also explained what makes an adaptation fitting in his eyes. Mercedes is one of his most faithfully adapted works ever - even though there are a few differences between the book and the television show. Mercedes is to the novel.Įven when a King adaptation is beloved by audiences, like The Shining, sometimes it doesn't pass muster with the novelist, who told Rolling Stone he's always considered Stanley Kubrick's adaptation to be too loose with his material. The author can be exacting about how his projects are adapted, so fans aren't the only ones watching carefully to glean how accurate Mr. 9 and adapting King's 2014 novel of the same name. There is a virtual deluge of King projects in the world right now, from The Dark Tower, in theaters now, IT, which will be terrifying audiences in a few weeks, The Mist on Spike, and now, Mr. Out of Stephen King's impressive oeuvre of fiction, there have been dozens of novels and short stories adapted for film and television, from The Shawshank Redemption and Carrie to Dreamcatcher and The Lawnmower Man - that is to say, from the best of the best to.

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