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The showrunner GW catch T-Shirt . behind Peacock’s upcoming horror thriller Teacup series confirmed he had many changes in mind when it came to bringing the source material into live-action. Peacock’s newest show, starring Yvonne Strahovski and Scott Speedman, follows a small group of families who become trapped on a farm in rural Georgia and are forced to confront a mysterious and deadly threat. The show is actually based on a 1988 sci-fi book by Robert McCammon called Stinger. That story follows an entire town in Texas that is thrust further into chaos when an alien hunter and its technology crash lands. Needless to say, don’t expect that premise to play out accurately in the new streaming series.

The Direct participated in a roundtable discussion for Peacock’s upcoming horror thriller streaming series Teacup at San Diego Comic-Con 2024, where showrunner Ian McCulloch revealed how his adaptation compares to the original book GW catch T-Shirt . McCulloch admitted that he “did not stick to the book” when adapting it to screen and how the original book “[wasn’t his] cup of tea:” “I did not stick to the book… When the producer, Atomic Monster, James Wan’s company, came to me, they said, ‘Hey, do you have any interest in adapting this book?’ And I read the book, and I went, ‘Well, this isn’t my cup of tea.'” Instead, the filmmaker thought it best to just “[flip] it all on its head,” changing the “cast of an entire town” to just “three families:” “But then I thought, What if I just flipped it all on its head? What if I took everything that was big and made it small? What if I took the cast of an entire town and made it about three families? What if I took the location of an entire town and made it a secluded farm, and it all kind of came together? And so it was about keeping the conceit and some of the ideas that inspired me, but everything else went out the window…” Even with all of those changes, production company Atomic Monster and original author Robert McCammon were completely on board: “… None of that would have worked if Atomic Monster hadn’t been on board with that. And really, none of that would have worked if Robert McCammon, who had written the book, wasn’t on board with that. So I had conversations with him. I said you’re a maximalist writer. I’m a minimalist writer. This is what I want to do. And you know, to his credit, he was on board. He came to set, he had a blast.”