The Langoliers
The Timekeepers Of Eternitysets out to retool the Stephen King miniseriesThe Langoliers , which is often considered one of the spoilt adaptations of the generator ’s work . Ever sinceCarriewas published in the ' 70s , King has been a family name in repulsion . While his writing has spanned everything from heartwarming drama to phantasy , he ’s proven time and again with industrial plant likeThe Shining , IT , The Mistand many others that he has a total discernment of the repugnance genre . That has also been shown by the almost endless movie and television receiver adaptations of his work .
King ’s motion picture adaptationsrange from the sublime to the unwatchable . For everyShawshank RedemptionorMisery , there ’s aGraveyard ShiftorMaximum Overdrive . The ' 90 was something of a golden eld for miniseries versions of his chunkier novel , withITreceiving a solid adaption in 1990 - featuring a terrifying execution by Tim Curry - and the underratedThe violent storm Of The Century . However , some of these series missed the mark , as is the compositor’s case with 1995’sThe Langoliers .
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Helmed byFright Night’sTom Holland , The Langoliersadapted a novelette of the same name from King collectionFour Past Midnight . The story sees a flight of rider set ashore at an empty airport and discover they ’ve passed through some kind of time rift . It ’s a dandy story but the miniseries turn out to be a olive drab , lifeless slog , and it have some infamously terrible CGI to take the title monsters to life . That said , theStephen King miniseriesis bolster by the scene - chewing performance of Bronson Pinchot as a agent identify Toomy . While the miniseries is not lovingly regarded , a engrossing new art film dubbedThe Timekeepers Of EternitytakesThe Langoliersand whole reinvents it .
How Timekeepers Of Eternity Fixes The Langoliers
The Timekeepers Of Eternitydirector Aristotelis Maragkos print frames fromThe Langoliersand re - worked the story using animation and newspaper collages . The movie sleep together focuses squarely on Toomy and uses his recurring habit of buck paper and make that a visual motif . The Timekeepers Of Eternityuses this technique to startling effect , with the covert constantly tearing , ripping and reforming in new way to represent Toomy ’s increasingly fractured mindset . The focus onThe LangoliersToomy also edit out the runtime down from three hr to a lean 64 minutes .
The Timekeepers Of Eternityis essentially an experimental artwork picture , which will no doubt hold some of the integral fault ofThe Langoliers- which once got aRick & Mortynod- like stilted talks or operation . However , it takes one of the worst Stephen King adaptations and - just like Toomy - rips it up and remold it into something far more interesting . The movie is currently doing the round at various film festivals , though it ’s unknown when - or if - it might get a wider release .
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