Paul Tremblay, author of “The Cabin at the End of the World,” explains why M. Night Shyamalan’s adaptation of his book veers away from the original novel’s message.
I think people see my ending as darker because Wen died. That doesn’t happen at the end [of the film]. It’s undoubtedly super dark, but I think a lot of people are interpreting, “Oh, these two men said no. Now, the world’s going to be over.” I never said that’s the ending. It’s up to your interpretation. But I purposefully divorced myself from thinking about whether or not the apocalypse is happening when I wrote it. I wanted the evidence to be equal on both sides.
It’s a great question. In the late ’80s, nuclear war was one of my biggest fears and something that still really upsets me. I can’t usually watch movies or read books that involve that, because it’s too much for me. Part ofwas my fear of the apocalypse. The reason I wanted to leave [the ending] ambiguous was to reinforce the idea that, “Hey, every time you turn on the TV or look at your phone, or look at your feed, it feels like the world is ending.” This is just how we live.
His name, “Jeff O’Bannon”—if that’s his real name—I was playing with Steve Bannon’s name and Trump’s first attorney general, Jeff Sessions. When I was writing, Trump decided to. What I mention in the book is that, as they’re watching the news, there’s a bird flu. I partly wanted to not go overboard and be too didactic, but I also didn’t want to go overboard naming specific religions, too.
As long as they read the book! The truth of it is, and it’s a weird thing—I’ve talked to other people who’ve been through the adaptation part of it—movies and television have been the dominant cultural force for a long time. Especially in comparison to books. A movie like this, so many more people are going to see the movie than read the book. It’s the greatest problem in the world to have.
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