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Shyamalan's new movie radically changes the ending of its source material, Paul Tremblay's novel The Cabin At The End Of The World

, in terms of its ending—especially since one of the first things the director and his cohorts did when adapting Paul Tremblay’s bookAdvertisement

Shyamalan’s co-writers, Steve Desmond and Michael Sherman, don’t mince words about why the ending had to go, either: It was just too damn dark. Both stories center on a family who are accosted by strangers who claim that, unless one member of the family willingly sacrifices themselves to die, the world will end. In the novel, the inevitable confrontations that follow have a horrifying outcome:.

Here’s Desmond and Sherman, talking about why they and Shyamalan ditched Tremblay’s ending in favor of one where Wen survives, with one of her fathers eventually giving his life to apparently she book is the book, and the movie is the movie, and we think they both were exceptional mediums. This is a big, wide release movie that is meant for a very large audience. There are some decisions that the book made that were pretty dark and may have been a little too much for a broader audience.

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