{"id":264316,"date":"2021-06-02T02:16:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T23:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/stephen-king-adaptation-liseys-story-should-have-stayed-on-the-shelf\/"},"modified":"2021-06-02T02:16:51","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T23:16:51","slug":"stephen-king-adaptation-liseys-story-should-have-stayed-on-the-shelf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/stephen-king-adaptation-liseys-story-should-have-stayed-on-the-shelf\/","title":{"rendered":"#Stephen King Adaptation &#8216;Lisey&#8217;s Story&#8217; Should Have Stayed on the Shelf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Stephen King Adaptation &#8216;Lisey&#8217;s Story&#8217; Should Have Stayed on the Shelf<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">\n                <\/aside>\n<p><!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 3.7.9--><em>Welcome to\u00a0<strong>Up Next<\/strong>, a column that gives you the rundown on the latest TV. This week,\u00a0Valerie Ettenhofer reviews Lisey\u2019s Story, a Stephen King adaptation for <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">App<\/a>le TV+.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><strong>Stephen King<\/strong> has written more than eighty books, many of them now considered classics, but when asked about his favorite, he <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2017\/tv\/news\/stephen-king-mr-mercedes-it-movie-what-scares-him-1202518482\/\">often cites<\/a> a lesser-known title: <strong><em>Lisey\u2019s Story<\/em><\/strong>. The 2006 fantasy romance is partly <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/moviemaker.com\/stephen-king-inspiration-liseys-story-apple-tv\/\">inspired by<\/a> the aftermath of an incident that almost killed him. It\u2019s a complicated story about processing grief, unveiling childhood trauma, and delving into the imagination. I wish audiences could see what King sees in it, but at least on screen, in an Apple TV+ limited <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> directed by <strong>Pablo Larra\u00edn<\/strong> (<em>Jackie<\/em>) and written by King himself, the story is utterly incomprehensible.<\/p>\n<p>On paper, this ambitious adaptation of<em> Lisey\u2019s Story<\/em> has everything going for it, from a star-studded cast including <strong>Julianne Moore<\/strong>, <strong>Clive Owen<\/strong>, <strong>Jennifer Jason Leigh<\/strong>, <strong>Joan Allen<\/strong>, and <strong>Dane Dehaan<\/strong>, to <strong>J.J. Abrams<\/strong> being counted among its producers. It\u2019s also one of only a handful of times that King himself has written the teleplay for an adaptation of one of his works.<\/p>\n<p>Despite all this, the resulting series is so muddled and overstuffed with time (and world) jumps that it\u2019s difficult to even tell what story is being told. This much is clear: Lisey (Moore) is the widow of a famed writer named Scott Landon, who almost died after being shot by a crazed fan \u2014 and who did die sometime later. A professor (<strong>Ron Cephas Jones<\/strong>) has been pressing her for any unpublished writing her husband may have left behind, and he\u2019s recruited an out-of-control superfan (Dehaan) to shake her up a bit. Meanwhile, Lisey and her sister Darla (Leigh) are trying to help a third sister, Amanda, (Allen), who is alternating between cutting fits and periods of catatonia.<\/p>\n<p>Got all that? Well, that\u2019s only the half of it. There\u2019s also the matter of Scott\u2019s repressed childhood memories \u2014 or, rather, Lisey\u2019s apparently repressed memories of him telling her his memories. These memories involve, among other things, a paranoid, abusive father, a potentially demonic child, and another world called Boo\u2019ya Moon. The series spends a lot of time in Boo\u2019ya Moon, a purple-hued realm that seems to consist solely of cottony-looking plants, a seashore full of figures wearing what appear to be latex veils, and a monster that\u2019s both gross and inexplicable. On top of all that, the characters also <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a> to Boo\u2019ya Moon via water \u2026 by regurgitating streams of water into each others\u2019 mouths.<\/p>\n<p>As you may have gathered, <em>Lisey\u2019s Story<\/em> is all a bit silly. The few parts that aren\u2019t silly are disorienting, such as the poor transitions between multiple timelines, including some that seem like they\u2019re meant to be many years earlier but make no attempt to de-age or recast their leads. The editing and direction fail to cohere, to the point that, with so many timelines in play, it\u2019s sometimes difficult to tell which characters are even in the same room together within a scene. There\u2019s no internal logic to<em> Lisey\u2019s Story<\/em>, and there\u2019s little formal filmmaking logic, either.<\/p>\n<p>The series is also frequently overwrought; Lisey spends a lot of time desperately screaming to the heavens, at her dead husband, or at whoever happens to be around. The score works overtime to create a sense of drama, often crowding out the dialogue in the process. And while King\u2019s works always have a unique vocabulary, this story in particular is crammed with goofy phrases that undercut any sense of tension, from the term \u201cbool hunt\u201d to Lisey\u2019s nickname of \u201cBabylove,\u201d to a creature called \u201clong boy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So the series might be incoherent to casual fans, but will King aficionados enjoy it? Well, not necessarily. Much of <em>Lisey\u2019s Story<\/em> hinges on Lisey\u2019s love for Scott, but it\u2019s a love that\u2019s explained rather than demonstrated. We see scenes from early in their relationship, sure, but they\u2019re devoid of chemistry, or even any convincing evidence that either half of the couple is a real person with interests or personality. We\u2019re meant to believe Lisey loves Scott because the series says she does, again and again. All of the parts of the story that echo King\u2019s real-life \u2014 Scott\u2019s fear during his near-death experience, Lisey\u2019s strength in the face of hardship, and even the tangled relationship between writers and fans \u2014 are hollowed out on screen, lacking any ability to make emotional impact thanks to the disjointed series structure.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few scenes in<em> Lisey\u2019s Story<\/em> that work well, namely those that include all three adult sisters \u2014 a trio of powerful actors \u2014 and some of Scott\u2019s childhood memories. Young actor <strong>Sebastian Eugene Hansen<\/strong> plays Scott as a sympathetic child, and these scenes provide the series\u2019 most tense and unpredictable moments. Unfortunately, there\u2019s so much going on in <em>Lisey\u2019s Story<\/em> that they also feel as if they could belong to a different series altogether.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re living through a Stephen King adaptation renaissance that began with 2017\u2019s <em>IT<\/em> and has included works like <i>Gerald\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Game<\/a><\/i>, <em>Doctor Sleep<\/em>, and <em>The Outsider<\/em>. With roughly two dozen different King-inspired projects <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000175\/\">in development,<\/a> Hollywood will have plenty more chances to get the horror master\u2019s best works right. 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This week,\u00a0Valerie Ettenhofer reviews Lisey\u2019s Story, a Stephen King adaptation for Apple TV+. Stephen King has written more than eighty books, many of them now considered classics, but when asked&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":264317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Liseys-Story.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[7152,58690,108036,26017,105410,20973],"class_list":["post-264316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-mediaa","tag-apple-tv","tag-jennifer-jason-leigh","tag-joan-allen","tag-julianne-moore","tag-liseys-story","tag-pablo-larrain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}