Historically secretive about the plot details for his movies, an approach which largely accentuates your enjoyment of them, it has been revealed that M. Night Shyamalan’s fifteenth feature film Knock at the Cabin is based on Paul Tremblay’s horror novel The Cabin at the End of the World.
All we knew about Knock at the Cabin was that it had wrapped production in June, and that it stars Rupert Grint (Servant), Nikki Amuka-Bird (Avenue 5), Dave Bautista (Dune), Ben Aldridge (Pennyworth) and Jonathan Groff (The Matrix Resurrections).
Well now during an interview with CNBC Tremblay has spoken about how he was made to keep schtum about the fact Shyamalan was adapting 2018’s The Cabin at the End of the World, and how he acted as a consultant rather than have any direct involvement with the screenplay. He said “I have no contractual say over the screenplay or filming,” adding that “Night and I discussed the book and I answered a bunch of his questions about character and story, about why I did what I did. I can’t speak to his screenwriting process.”
The Cabin at the End of the World tells the story of two dads, Andrew and Eric, and their adopted daughter Wen. Having rented a cabin in the middle of nowhere to unwind and decompress, their tranquillity is broken when four strangers show up and tell them that a horrifying decision must be made to prevent the world from ending.
Tremblay reassures us that knowing the novel won’t mean that audiences won’t get their usual dollop of Shyamalan intrigue, saying “I honestly spent a chunk of my 2022 spring quelling internet rumours and putting out Twitter fires connecting the book and movie. It reached a point in early June where that became impossible, however, with all the information out there, including the IMDb page. I have been doing my part to be respectful of movie marketing desires and certainly wouldn’t dream of spoiling anything. Like the majority of adaptations, there will be story changes and differences compared to the book so my readers will still be surprised by the film.”
Shyamalan’s last film was Old, which grossed a pandemic affected $90M worldwide from a budget of $18M, and with a very fitting rating of 50% on RottenTomatoes, proved to be as divisive as most of the director’s post-Signs output.
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Source – ComingSoon
