Knock At The Cabin Author Reacts To Being Left Out Of Shyamalan Poster

Author Paul Tremblay Reacts To Being Left Out Of Poster For Upcoming M. Night Shyamalan Movie call the booth. The original 2018 novel, The Cabin at the End of the Worldit was written by Tremblay and would go on to win the Bram Stoker Novel Award in 2019. Even before the novel was published, FilmNation acquired the film rights to the book in April 2018. In 2021, Shyamalan was announced to direct the film adaptation of the novel. horror, and that would star Dave Bautista, Rupert Grint, Ben Aldridge and Jonathan Groff. call the booth follows a family of three who vacation at a remote cabin, only to be held hostage by a group of strangers who tell them they must sacrifice a family member to prevent the apocalypse. The film will be released on February 3, 2023.

Recently on Twitter, call the booth shared his first poster and Tremblay points out that something is missing. In the Twitter posts of Tremblaythe author points out that neither his name nor his book appear anywhere on the poster, despite call the booth being a direct film adaptation of The Cabin at the End of the World. Tremblay goes on to suggest that while The Cabin at the End of the World will have a related version of the film on February 7th, the film doesn’t seem to acknowledge its source material at all. Read Tremblay’s posts below:

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while the call the booth The poster appears to have diverged from Tremblay’s original novel, this isn’t the first time a Shyamalan film has downplayed its source material. In 2021, Shyamalan released the thriller Ancientwhich was a film adaptation of the graphic novel by Pierre Oscar Lévy and Frédérik Peeters Sandcastle. Nevertheless, Ancient He likewise stripped himself of any association with Sandcastleleaving many viewers assuming the film was Shyamalan’s original work rather than an adaptation.

Although Lévy and Peeters did not comment on the rather minimal recognition of their graphic novel when it came to Ancient‘s, Tremblay is certainly not doing the same. In response to a Twitter user who said he was uncomfortable with Tremblay’s lack of acknowledgment on the poster, Tremblay responded by saying “there is no need to be uncomfortable to the extent that they bought the rights and the book will appear in the credits of the film..” Tremblay acknowledges that while the rights to the adaptation were purchased, and that The Cabin at the End of the World will receive credit in call the boothyou still want credit where credit is due.

Given Tremblay’s comments, it will be interesting to see how close call the booth it sticks to the plot of its source material. It seems likely that Shyamalan’s film will deviate considerably from Tremblay’s story. call the booth it will be Tremblay’s first film adaptation of his work, and with good reason, he’s not quiet about making sure audiences know where the film’s story comes from. Given that Shyamalan now has a history of not giving authors much credit when adapting his books into movies, Tremblay’s vocal critiques may be key to ensuring this doesn’t happen again with a Shyamalan movie in the future. Although only one poster has been released so far, maybe the future call the booth promotional materials will finally give Tremblay the recognition it deserves.

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