puts its central family, the Foxes, on the run from its very first episode, which premiered on April 30. The sepia-toned drama stars Justin Theroux and Melissa George as married couple Allie and Margot Fox, who are escaping from their murky past and the American government, taking their teenage children Dina (Logan Polish) and Charlie (Gabriel Bateman) along for the ride. After perilously crossing the desert to enter Mexico, the family finds surprising refuge in a Mexican hacienda under the roof of a powerful matriarch, played by famous singer and actress Ofelia Medina. But is it really a safe space? In this exclusive
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To say that Paul Theroux, the acclaimed novelist and travel writer, author of 57 books of fiction and non-fiction, is having a moment is an understatement.
His 14th novel,
The Mosquito Coast, published 40 years ago, has just been adapted into an AppleTV+ series, which premiered on April 30. It stars Justin Theroux, Paul s nephew, and both Justin and Paul are executive producers. The adaptation was written by Neil Cross, the British novelist and scriptwriter who created the multi-award winning BBC crime series,
Luther (starring Idris Elba).
The book has not been out of print since its publication an authorial dream. It was also made into a feature film, in 1986, directed by Peter Weir and starring Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren. And it s had another, exceedingly rare accolade: Banned in South Africa during apartheid, it was un-banned by Nelson Mandela after his 1994 ascent to the South African presidency and in 1995 selected by South Africa s department
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Perhaps the most interesting thing about “The Mosquito Coast,” which begins Friday on Apple TV+, is that it stars the nephew of the man who wrote the book on which it is (kinda) based. Justin Theroux (“The Leftovers”) takes the lead in what seems intended as a multiseason variation adaptation is not really the word of Paul Theroux’s 1981 novel about a paranoid Yankee crank who hauls his family to the jungles of Honduras to escape everything that bothers him about America, which is just about everything.
Where Peter Weir’s 1986 big-screen translation, which starred Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren and River Phoenix, faithfully followed the lines of the book, as stripped apart and beefed up for television by “Luther” creator Neil Cross, “The Mosquito Coast” has become an antiheroic action thriller whose spiritual cousins are shows like “Breaking Bad,”“Ozark” and “The Americans.” (It’s not surprising to learn that Cross, who also penned the pre-