As is true of most film adaptations, the timelines were a bit off. And while the show was, for the most part, a brilliant and comprehensive adaptation of the novel, it was, by no means, perfect. When Erebus and Terror quickly become frozen in hundreds of miles of uncharted sea ice, their crews must survive not only the extreme cold, starvation, and illness, but a mysterious beast intent on hunting and killing off the men until none remain.įirst and foremost, the decision to adapt this seven hundred eighty-four-page novel into a ten-episode television series instead of an hour and a half-long movie was not only wise, but absolutely critical. The novel was adapted into an AMC television series of the same name in March of 2018. American author Dan Simmons’ 2007 novel, named after the latter vessel captained by Francis Crozier, combines what is known of the ships’ fate with his own fictionalized account of what may have been. In 1845, two vessels of the Royal Navy, the HMS Erebus and the HMS Terror, under the command of Captain Sir John Franklin, set out on a perilous, arctic expedition to locate and chart the illusive Northwest Passage.
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