In one way, adapting Stephen King’s 2018 novel “The Outsider” into a 10-episode series for HBO was old hat for writer and producer Richard Price. He has adapted his own novels for…
” is an almost 600-page tome that starts out seeming like a regular detective novel . Small town detective Ralph Anderson arrests a little league coach for the brutal rape and and murder of a neighborhood kid. The coach, Terry Maitland , insists he is innocent and provides witnesses and video to back him up. But the cops also have witnesses and video that say he is guilty.
To that end, he had no qualms about “adding and reinventing and creating people that weren’t in the book” to further flesh out the story. As a detective, “he believes only in things like witnesses’ statements, interviews, DNA,” Price says. “His goal is finding hard stuff that will lead to a conviction. He’s not going to worry about child psychology; he’s not going to worry about philosophy. He’s, ‘Where are the prints? I think that witness was lying, bring him back.'”
Price also tweaked the character of Holly a bit. A modern King classic, Holly first appeared in his 2014 novel “Mr. Mercedes” and is actually a character on AT&T Audience Network’s adaptation of that novel, as well. Price says he has only seen “maybe 20 minutes” of “Mr. Mercedes” and admits he didn’t want to know much about her in that show or in the book on which it is based.
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