A New Game is launched The Institute showrunners explain why the new Stephen King dystopian sci-fi TV series is more timely than ever: “Children shall inherit the earth, but first they have to save themselves” is launched.
The Institute showrunners explain why the new Stephen King dystopian sci-fi TV series is more timely than ever: “Children shall inherit the earth, but first they have to save themselves”new features
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Exclusive: Jack Bender and Ben Cavell say now is the perfect time for an adaptation of Stephen King’s 2019 kid-centered sci-fi drama
The Institute showrunners explain why the new Stephen King dystopian sci-fi TV series is more timely than ever: “Children shall inherit the earth, but first they have to save themselves” new features
The Institute showrunners Jack Bender and Ben Cavell say the new Stephen King adaptation is more timely than ever – because children are the ones leading the change.
“It was following the Parkland massacre shooting in the States, which seems to be an epidemic in our challenged country,” Bender explains to GamesRadar+, when asked why now was the time to adapt King’s 2019 novel into an eight-episode series. “I saw those kids who survived the tragedy come out of that as a group that was becoming political and defying and going to city council meetings and going around and saying, while they were seniors in high school, ‘You adults don’t know. You’ve got to do this. You’ve got to do that. We can fix it, but get out of our way and let us do it.'”
“And when I saw that, I thought, God bless them. They’re right. That’s the future. And we have screwed up as adults. And to me, those kids – when you think of the phrase ‘the meek shall inherit the earth,’ for the show, we think of ‘children shall inherit the earth.’ But first they have to save themselves. That’s very much, I believe, at the heart of what we thought this could be, aside from being a really entertaining, twisted, believable, and compelling series.”