Somerville said it's the instinct to want to help that was important for Jeevan. And in our version, we decided just to take that piece away," Somerville said. "In the novel, Jeevan is an EMT in training, and I think his rush to the stage is somewhat motivated by a sense that he's the guy to help. It was here that Somerville makes his first tweak from the novel. ![]() When Arthur begins to falter on stage, an audience member, Jeevan (Himesh Patel), is the first and only person to react, rushing the stage. That includes his estranged wife, Elizabeth, and their son, Tyler his longtime frenemy, Clark and his ex-wife Maria, whose titular graphic novel becomes somewhat of a sacred text to both Tyler and Kirsten in the wake of the outbreak. Leander is the hub character whose orbit connects most of the cast. The main protagonist is Kirsten, who at the time of the outbreak is performing in a presentation of Shakespeare's "King Lear" in Chicago when the lead, Arthur Leander, has a heart attack on stage. The show and novel follow a small and loosely interconnected group of characters as they navigate the initial outbreak and the "after" as the world as we know it collapses. So, we needed to tell the story in a way that let the different timelines proceed together." "It's about before and after, not just one or the other. " 'Station Eleven' needs to be out of time because it's about memory," he continued. I just happened to learn about it from one of the best and also learn about it again from Emily's novel," Somerville said. "I'm not a writer who needs to tell a story out of order. In many ways, the nonlinear, multiple timeline, puzzlebox structure of "Station Eleven" echoes that of "The Leftovers," and Somerville said that isn't coincidence. "So, I got to watch for two years what it looked like when a TV writer, who had made 120 whatever episodes of 'Lost' with cliffhangers and twists and turns, was in a dialog with a novelist who was protecting and maintaining the spirit of the novel that he had written," Somerville said. Somerville got a front row seat to watch Lindelof and Perrotta work together to expand Perrotta's world, but in Lindelof's domain as a master television storyteller. "The novelist who wrote the novel 'The Leftovers' was Tom Perrotta, and very unusually, he was in the writers' room for seasons two and three after they had exhausted the material that was in the book," Somerville told WPR's " BETA." And further, he cut his TV writing teeth with Damon Lindelof ("Lost" and "Watchmen") on the similarly themed and critically acclaimed HBO series, " The Leftovers," which dealt with another global "rapture" and its aftermath. One, he was a successful novelist himself. Somerville had two big pluses heading into this job. They optioned the book for a limited series months before an actual pandemic hit the globe and tapped Wisconsin native Patrick Somerville to adapt it for television. Others, however, found it a bit "too soon" for COVID-19 reading. The author was deemed prophetic in some circles for her story about a Georgian flu that wipes out 99 percent of the world's population and the survivors' plight in the aftermath. John Mandel's 2014 novel, "Station Eleven" began popping up on popular reading lists. ![]() In early 2020 as most of the world retreated into quarantine, author Emily St.
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