![]() A religious nutjob exposing morality in a Stephen King story - stop me if you've heard that one before. While the werewolf being Marty's beloved cool uncle certainly would have been an interesting plot development, the real villain is McGill, who plays Reverend Lester Lowe.Īfter being found out, Lowe, in hammy glory, explains that everything serves the will of God, even killing people as a literal monster. Who is the werewolf anyway? The two top-billed actors are Busey and McGill, both of whom usually play villains, so that's a major clue. Al is mentioned to have won "a couple" medals serving in Vietnam, while in the movie, Red can build Marty these tricked-out, go-kart wheelchairs seemingly from scratch. In both versions, he appears to be an irresponsible layabout with hidden depth, but in different ways. Marty's uncle, Al in Cycle, Red in Silver Bullet, has also undergone a significant change. In the film, where the celebration has been changed to an October carnival, the uncle has them because … well, he's as eccentric as any character played by Busey, so maybe he drives around with fireworks on him at all times. In Cycle of the Werewolf, Marty's uncle has fireworks in his car because it's the Fourth of July. RELATED: The Story of Stephen King's Disastrous Attempt at Directing Instead of spanning an entire year, the film starts in May and ends in October. ![]() Silver Bullet also takes place over a much shorter timeframe. Silver Bullet is much more serialized, with Marty and his family being front and center from almost the movie's beginning. It wasn't long before he started chafing under the 500 words per installment requirement that he had set.Īfter various roadblocks and hurdles towards completing the calendar, King sat down to write the July section, which would be about a kid who uses a wheelchair named Marty Coslaw (played by Haim in the movie), who would be heavily dismayed about the Fourth of July fireworks show being canceled, so much so that he would shoot off his own, supplied to him by his uncle.Ĭycle of the Werewolf is very episodic, with Marty, the protagonist, not being introduced until a little over halfway through. He writes six pages a day every day for the entire year. Something that would prove he was just a regular guy who wasn't in it for the money. ![]() ![]() Zavisa caught King at the right time because he was one, drunk, and two, looking to do something small. In the forward, King recounts how Cycle of the Werewolf began at the 1979 World Fantasy Convention, where Christopher Zavisa approached him about doing a "story calendar." Each month of the year would contain a vignette that added up to a complete story, accompanied by an illustration done by Berni Wrightson, co-creator of the Swamp Thing character. ![]()
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