![]() ![]() The story is as ponderous and slow as the written version. His pasty makeup and Pinchot’s ability to play a maniacal ass lifts the story and makes it watchable.ĭavid Morse, who has stellar horror credentials for his work in 12 Monkeys, the Green Mile, and Disturbia, plays Brian and like Pinchot, lifts the moribund script with his excellent acting.ĭean Stockwell plays Bob Jenkins, the know it all mystery writer and actually makes him more likeable than the written character by humanizing the smug writer whose leaps in logic always seem to be correct. Bronson Pinchot – almost exclusively a comedic actor – plays the antagonist, Craig Toomey. One important difference is we learn in the opening moments Nick Hopwell’s true nature and true profession as he is given his orders by an agent to kill the girlfriend of an important politician. ![]() He wasn’t important to the written story and would have been unnecessary baggage in this story. ![]() The only character omitted from the original story is the drunk who sleeps through most of the events. Seldom does a made for television movie series so closely resemble the text of the story as does Tom Holland’s teleplay based on Stephen King’s novella, The Langoliers.Īlmost every element of the story is there, including almost verbatim dialogue. Based on the novella, The Langoliers from the collection Four Past Midnight by Stephen King ![]()
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