{"id":1720,"date":"2012-03-03T00:57:38","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T06:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2012-03-03T00:58:22","modified_gmt":"2012-03-03T06:58:22","slug":"luther-writer-neil-cross-hired-for-raimi%e2%80%99s-day-of-the-triffids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=1720","title":{"rendered":"Luther writer Neil Cross hired for Raimi\u2019s Day Of The Triffids"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The notion of director Sam Raimi bringing his morbid sensibilities to John Wyndham\u2019s classic novel The Day Of The Triffids sounds almost too wonderful to be true. So much so that, when it was announced back in 2010 that Raimi had purchased the film rights, we quickly filed it under a portion of our brain under the heading \u2018will probably never happen\u2019.<\/p>\n

After around 18 months of silence, though, it seems that Raimi\u2019s Triffids movie really is going ahead, with writer Neil Cross hired to get its script together. Cross, as you\u2019re probably aware, is a novelist and screenwriter responsible for Luther, Spooks, and a recent adaptation of an MR James\u2019 story, Whistle And I\u2019ll Come To You.<\/p>\n

At this early stage, it\u2019s not yet clear who will direct; Raimi\u2019s currently busy with Oz: The Great And Powerful, but there\u2019s the outside chance that he may have time to turn his attention to Triffids next year. It would be great news if he did, because Wyndham\u2019s novel hasn\u2019t yet been given the adaptation it deserves; the 1962 movie was pure B-movie schlock, the 1981 TV version terrified the life out of me as a child, but hasn\u2019t aged well, and the less said about the 2009 version, the better.<\/p>\n

Although Triffids\u2019 premise \u2013 killer plant invasion \u2013 may sound daft, there\u2019s a truly nightmarish quality to Wyndham\u2019s novel, and some sharply observed characterisation in there, too. Let\u2019s hope that, even if Raimi\u2019s involvement is as producer rather than director, he can shepherd a worthy Triffids adaptation to the big screen.