KRIPKE: To me, it was the tone, more than anything else. That’s awesome! Obviously, not every book translates well to film, so what was it that made you see a film in this? It sounds weird to say, but I took it like it was this sacred job I had to do. I really felt like I owed it to the book to do it right. That book helped me, in a lot ways, and made me realize it was okay to be a little different. It felt like a promise fulfilled to a chubby 10-year-old me. So, to be able to go full circle and actually adapt it, was really important to me. It helped me, in so many ways, become the writer that I was. There’s such a direct line between me writing genre, and being a 10-year-old kid and finding this book. So many of the rules from the world of this book, I took into Supernatural. It’s because of this book, directly, that I wrote Supernatural. It set my career on the path that it went. I felt like I needed to write it, and I would have been really upset had anyone else written it because it meant so much to me. It really was to the point where it was more than I wanted to write it. People throw this phrase around a lot, but it was truly a labor of love. It was such a pleasure to write because you feel emotionally invested. When you get to write your favorite kid’s book as a movie, is it basically just a dream project? He also talked about the 2-hour Timeless series finale, which shoots in October and will air on NBC, whether fans will feel satisfied, and if he could see the story continuing, in some form, as well as his upcoming Amazon series The Boys, adapted from the comic books by Garth Ennis, and how it reflects what’s going on in our world today.Ĭollider: I had so much fun with this movie!ĮRIC KRIPKE: Oh, good! Thank you so much. Zimmerman ( Cate Blanchett), he also accidentally awakens the dead, wreaking havoc in his new but otherwise sleepy little town.ĭuring this 1-on-1 phone interview with Collider, screenwriter/producer Eric Kripke talked about getting to turn his favorite kid’s book into a movie, why The House with a Clock in its Walls is so special, how influential this specific story has been on his own writing, throughout the years, how many Supernatural Easter eggs made it into the film, and whether he’d like to keep the Barnavelt adventures going. As Lewis discovers a hidden world of magic, mystery and the supernatural, and gets to know Jonathan’s best friend and neighbor, Mrs. From director Eli Roth and writer Eric Kripke, and based on the novel by John Bellairs, the family fantasy film The House with a Clock in its Wallsfollows recently orphaned 10-year-old Lewis Barnavelt ( Owen Vaccaro), who goes to live with his rather eccentric Uncle Jonathan ( Jack Black) in a creaky old house full of all sorts of magical wonder.
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