
SPOILER ALERT: people like violence. Twelve million people, specifically, enjoy violent shows on AMC on a weekly basis, so the network will try to duplicate its zombie success with monsters in The Terror, based on the Dan Simmons novel of the same name. Says Deadline, “The Terror is set in 1847 when the crew of a Royal Naval expedition to find the Arctic’s Northwest Passage discovers instead a monstrous predator, a vicious Gothic horror that stalks the ships in a desperate game of survival.” As long as the predator isn’t humanity itself, SOLD.
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I’ve read The Terror and the predator is… unique, I guess. Hella good build up to the climax, though.
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I thought the book was pretty good. I’m not sure i ever really got what the monster was, but the mystery surrounding the lost ship looking for the northern passage is a good one. Great character moments in there. I think this could make for some great TV. I can’t wait to see how they translate the Masque of the Red Death scene to TV.
I hear AMC is doing a show about taxadermy too, don’t know much about it though. Man, if only a website I frequent would jam as many adds about it as possible onto each page…
I’m not sure how this will go on longer than one season, personally. The book is incredibly tense and full of some of Simmons’ best work, but it really doesn’t have enough behind it to sustain multiple seasons. At best, we’ll have 12-13 episodes of good-to-great TV; at worst, we’ll have AMC’s take on Lost, but instead of a tropical island setting, it’s the frozen north and everyone’s stuck on the Black Rock.
If they want to delve into Dan Simmons, though, why not Summer of Night/Children of Night/Fires of Eden? You can tell a lot of stories about those kids and their adult counterparts, it’s a world with supernatural but not overpowering elements, and the last novel (A Winter’s Haunting) would make an excellent final season arc, as the main character comes to grips with everything that’s happened.