HBO is making a show about those who did n’t get spirited away after God ’s Rapture ? Awesome . Damon Lindelof is behind it ? Ehhhhhhh .
fortuitously , the premise is establish off of Tom Perrotta‘s ( Election ) book The Leftovers which is trades the Left Behind Bible - clunk for literal intrigue . Either manner , we ’re one footstep nigher to seeing this actually happen , becauseVultureis reporting that HBO has ordered a pilot for the series . If the show sticks close to the ledger , the whole thing should take place three year after the global Rapture . Perotta is impound to produce ( and hopefully pen a few episode , should the thing go to series ) and Lindelof is reportedly on board as showrunner . Here ’s hoping Perotta does n’t let this one sink into another Lindelof morass of Daddy issues and pregnancy fixation . Here ’s the official synopsis of the novel fromAmazon :
What if your life was upended in an wink ? What if your better half or your child disappeared powerful in front of your eyes ? Was it the Rapture or something even more difficult to excuse ? How would you reconstruct your life history in the wake of such a annihilating event ? These are the enquiry confronting the mazed citizens of Mapleton , a formerly comfortable suburban community of interests that lost over a hundred people in the Sudden Departure . Kevin Garvey , the new mayor , want to move forward , to bring a mother wit of renewed hope and purpose to his traumatized neighbors , even as his own family disintegrates . His wife , Laurie , has allow him to enlist in the Guilty Remnant , a homegrown furore whose member take a vow of secrecy but frequent the town ’s streets as “ life reminders ” of God ’s judgment . His son , Tom , is move , too , overlook out of college to follow a crooked “ prophesier ” who calls himself Holy Wayne . Only his teenaged daughter , Jill , remain , and she ’s definitely not the sweet “ A ” student she used to be .
Through the optical prism of a single house , Perrotta illume a familiar America made strange by heartache and apocalyptic anxiety . The Leftovers is a knock-down and deep go book about regular multitude clamber to hold onto a feeling in their futures .
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