The Silence (Tim Lebbon)
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MemberPraetorianMay 31, 2019Tim Lebbon author of Alien: Out of the Shadows and the AVP Rage Wars trilogy has a novel called The Silence which was recently released as a Netflix film.
Although the Film was a poor mish-mash of other films like The Mist, Bird Box and A Quiet Place I feel there was a lot of content omitted to the make the film adaptation more mainstream action-suspense. There were alot of unanswered questions, introduced concepts that weren't explored and stupid rushed/forced conclusions like a certain scene involving a mulcher.
Has anyone read the novel and able to elaborate?
The point I want to discuss is the novels antagonistic force the 'Vesps', a horde of subterranean bat-like creatures with wasp-like parasitic reproductive methods.
The creatures are blind and are attracted to sound, hunting en masse towards any sound that is made.
In the film they appear to lay eggs in the dead whom feed on the dead then emerge in groups.
I feel Lebbon, after having written for the Alien franchise has used his experience and inspiration to try and create his own xenomorph-like creature. But I also feel the film adaptation has probably stripped his ideas down to a diluted and weak experience.
The biggest upgrade in terms of Xenomorph vs Vesp is the Vesp's ability to use the dead as a host and to impregnate them with multiple embryos increase their reproductive capacity to 1:1 ratio to about 9:1
I enjoyed Lebbon's Alien novels, and his writing is better than this film would suggest. His usual attention to detail and thoughtful plots are missing in the film.
