Related to my previous post...

Here's some more info on the book my sister has vague memories of that she thinks Passengers might be based off of:

"I think it's a relatively older one though. I believe I was in middle school and it wasn't new at that point either.*

 

The main character is a guy. He's the only one awake and the ship I'm pretty sure has a female voice that can talk.... Maybe. That memory could be incorrect

 

I do know that there was a robotic android bartender that the guy would talk to

My sister called me up as I was getting ready for work this morning. Her question: "Hey, have you seen the trailer for the movie Passengers? Is it based on a book? Because I had serious deja vu when I saw that the bartender was really a robot."

I've been doing some checking, and I've seen some mentions that Passengers is an original script and some mentions that it's based on a book. This article says it's based on a book of the same title, but it doesn't say who the author is. I had thought this would be easier to figure out than it's turning out to be.

Anybody know what book, if any, the movie is based on? Who's the author? The only other thing I can think of is that the script writer originally wrote it as a book and then re-wrote it as a script when it didn't sell, and that's why some sources keep saying it's based on a book, but you'd think someone would mention that if it were the case.

But, Aryn!  The book was published in 1971, and was based on a case from the 40s!  Give the doctors a break.

No.

But why?

Because.

Because, I see the same attitudes in the way we treat childhood illness today.  Nah, that kid doesn't need therapy, (s)he just needs Ritalin!

Annnnnyway, the book definitely lost points for the doctors' stupidity because it just took me out of the story and into my ranting place.

I wonder if this story had something to do with my mother's aversion to Ouija Boards when I was growing up.  Man the shitstorm that caused, when she found me playing with one of those the first time (and every time after that).

Really a pretty fucking creepy story.  Yes some of it is slow moving, but I was given chills in ways that books haven't accomplished for me in years.  The evil that made itself known through such an innocent child was just truly terrifying.  

The fear that Regan expresses as the possession progresses simply makes it all the scarier -not only does the bed shake, but Regan is terrified of it.  She is truly trapped, her consciousness pushed to the side, her body hijacked.  How scary must it be to watch yourself, from some remote place doing things that hurt and disgust?  That loss of control is one of the scariest aspects of the whole story, for me.