Koontz, the author of many 1 New York Times. Best known for his thrillers and science fiction, a number of his books-including Invasion of the Body Snatchers- have been made into movies.

Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. Jack Finney (1911-1995) was the author of the much-loved and critically acclaimed novel Time and Again, as well as its sequel, From Time to Time. No word yet on timing for the film or who could potentially direct, but humans and pod people can agree it’s time for a (good) remake of the classic material. As the townspeople are steadily replaced by their emotionless alien counterparts, a lone doctor discovers their secret and sets out to stop them, a terrifying enough prospect made all the more complicated by the fact that it can be impossible to tell the difference between human and murderous alien. Also fun to try to see all the places the cold war paranoia shines through.In 2007, Oliver Hirschbiegel tried his hand at a new take, starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig under the title “The Invasion.” That film was widely derided and is considered the least of the remakes (to say nothing of the behind the scenes drama that necessitated the help of both the Wachowski siblings and James McTeigue).Īt least the material remains as timely as ever, as Finney’s seminal novel took place in a small town unknowingly invaded by aliens who use fast-growing pods to grow copies of the town’s residents.

Full Audio Book recording by Kristoffer Tabori, whose father Don Siegel directed the first film version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers in 1956. First Published in 'Colliers Magazine' in NovemberDecember 1954 and published in book form the following year. There are certain scenes where the narrator's voice drops away and you just get a description of unnerving behavior, like the Body Snatchers slowly falling into order in the town's square, that are quite effective. Body Snatchers, Jack Finney, Sci-Fi, Horror Language English. Scientifically it doesn't really make much sense, even by it's own internal logic, and the characters are pretty thin (and, predictably for 1954, fall into some pretty regressive gender dynamics) but as a pulpy page-turner I think it's well written with some really creepy moments. The 1956 film 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' was remade twice. I was expecting a really long wind-up of 'Oh no, this is preposterous, of course this can't be happening' but the characters pretty much get incontrovertible proof of alien invasion on page 30, and very little time is wasted on scenes of disbelieving characters. I really enjoyed it! I didn't realize as I was reading it that it was originally serialized in Colliers but it makes sense because one of the things I appreciated most was the pace. Recent rewatch of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) had me curious so I grabbed it from the library.

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