How? As in any adaptation, there are minor changes throughout, like the physical appearance of supporting characters, which always changes through casting but there are also some fairly significant departures that make this version of The Outsider unique.įirst, a quick refresher. And when the first episode of The Outsider sped through basically the first third of the book, it was clear once again that things were going to be different from the source material. Not only has King been notoriously difficult to adapt, it’s not something that would interest a writer as talented as Price if he couldn’t put his own fingerprints on it. When it was announced that HBO had tapped Richard Price to adapt Stephen King’s hit 2018 novel The Outsider for a ten-part miniseries, it was clear that the author of Clockers and co-writer of HBO’s The Night Of would be adding his own voice to the project. Ralph Anderson (Ben Mendelsohn) and Holly Gibney (Cynthia Erivo) function in The Outsider more or less the same as in Stephen King’s 2018 novel, but significant tweaks to the characters underscore themes that are unique to the HBO miniseries.
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