How The Changeling Series Approached Adapting Victor LaValle's Novel

Critical reception to Apple TV+’s The Changeling has been mixed so far, a surprising situation considering its source material, Victor LaValle’s 2017 novel, was met with near-universal acclaim. (io9 liked the show, for the record!) But director Jonathan van Tulleken doesn’t sound too concerned by any of the less-than-favorable reviews.

“The challenge was to take all of that first-person internal world that Victor had written about and channel that into something that is experiential visually. Victor created this fairytale version of a place and people who are very rarely represented in fairytales, and I think that’s incredible,” van Tulleken told the Hollywood Reporter in a new interview. In doing that, though, he explained that The Changeling’s approach didn’t take the most obvious and splashiest approach. Instead, its creators wanted “to think of our audience as sophisticated and thoughtful watchers who are in it for the long haul ... we hoped that by building the grounding of the characters, and by building this sort of beautiful world and building their relationship, that would then lay the groundwork for the rest of the story for the narrative. If you just jump into the genre, if you just jump into the horror, then you kind of cheat it,” he said.

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