Special Screening of The Girl With All The Gifts and Q&A with M.R. Carey

On September 20, 2016, I joined M.R. Carey at the Picturehouse at FACT for a special screening of The Girl with all the Gifts. I found the film to be fantastic, and greatly enjoyed our interview afterwards, and the questions from the audience.

M.R. Carey signing my copy of his new novel Fellside, published earlier this year (2016). Photo taken by Glyn Morgan.

Carey wrote both the novel and the screenplay, but rather than the film representing an adaptation of the novel, they were written in parallel - which makes for a fascinating process where the limits and strengths of the novel and film formats mean that differences in characterisation and perspective become especially pronounced. This is especially so given that Carey, as a writer of comics such as The Sandman, Lucifer and Hellblazer, among others, is cognisant of possibilities that visual formats can bring to storytelling.

I reviewed the novel, The Girl with all the Gifts, for the SFRA Review 310, which you can read here. I'd highly recommend watching the film, which was directed by Colm McCarthy stars Gemma Arterton, Glen Close, Paddy Consadine, Sennia Nanua and Fisayo Akinade.

Thanks to Glyn Morgan, Sarah Hughes at Waterstones Liverpool One, and to Michael Fowler at the Picturehouse at FACT for organising the event.