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Print 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 ....
Perhaps the most interesting thing about The Mosquito Coast, which premiered 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 â adaptation is not really the word â 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-apocalyptic cop tale ....