Beyond 2010 the adaptations of adolescent novels had their peak. Facing the last installment of Harry Potterother productions managed to make their own fan base as The hunger games, Divergent y Dusk. In the midst of this cluster of films, a science fiction project saw the light that ended up destroying the literary saga of its author.
Released in 2013, The guest It is the film adaptation of Stephanie Meyer’s homonymous novel. Written and directed by Andrew Niccol (Gattaca), The tape was simply a disaster. To start, he received bad criticism and at the box office he only raised $ 63 million with a budget of 40 million. The result: a possible continuity was discarded.
The story presents us to extraterrestrial parasites that have invaded planet Earth. Known as “souls”, its objective is to seize the conscience of human beings. It is there that we will meet Melanie (Saose Ronan), a young woman who struggles to keep control of her mind by filling her with memories of Jared, the man she is in love.
Against all forecast, the protagonist and Wanderer, the creature housed in her body, begin to communicate with each other thanks to the intensity of Melanie’s feelings. It will be then that Wanderer also begins to develop a condition by that young man. Together, take a trip to find it.
Of entry, The constant in the film is romanticism. No matter the stage, the characters, not even the genre, the conflict develops based on a love story. Basically, the same archetype that the novelist previously used in Dusk. It is in this context that several curiosities arise between one film and another.
first, the book of The guest It was published in 2008, the same year when the first installment of the saga starring Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart came out. Only one year after the premiere of Dawn: Part 2this other adaptation saw the light. Maybe, its failure was due to the recent phenomenon of the first franchise and this other went unnoticed.
On the other hand, it is undeniable that the low reception was a key point for not continuing from the cinematographic field. However, this may also affect Meyer who intended to create a trilogy with the sequels called The Seeker y The Soul. Until now, there have been no news if they will take place in the future.
Although the same author came to confess that he would have liked to be remembered for this other novel and not so much for Duskmore than ten years later we know that it was not. If you like to give a chance to The guestyou can find it available through tubi, Amazon Prime Video and Vix.
