The Host review

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Review Mark Harrison 2 Apr 2013 - 06:07

Saoirse Ronan stars in the big screen adaptation of Twilight author Stephenie Meyers' The Host. Here's what we thought...

Andrew Niccol is the writer and director who brought us Gattaca and In Time, two science-fiction films that use hypothetical technology to explore societal divides, and navigate the gulf between the haves and the have-nots. You might be forgiven for wondering, then, what on Earth he's doing adapting a Stephenie Meyer book for the big screen.

Yes, after five Twilight films, Meyer's literary canon has not yet been fully mined by Hollywood, and The Host, which was  published between instalments of her best-selling vampire saga, is her run at an alien invasion story. Of course, it's also a supernatural romance story, albeit one with much more intrigue than Twilight.

The invaders, known as Souls, are parasitic organisms that have conquered eleven other planets before Earth, »

- simonbrew

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