Predestination: Book vs. Movie
The Spierig brothers' Predestination (2014) adapts Robert A. Heinlein's short story All You Zombies. Ethan Hawke plays a time-traveling agent whose encounter with a young writer, played by Sarah Snook, becomes central to his mission.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Robert A. Heinlein
- Year
- 1959
- Pages
- 1Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 3 hr 12 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Spider Robinson
A bartender listens to a young writer recount a childhood in an orphanage, a devastating romance and the disappearance of a baby. The bartender offers an extraordinary bargain: a chance to return to the past and confront the person responsible. This short story follows their journey through a series of encounters that make personal history increasingly difficult to untangle.
- Director
- Peter Spierig, Michael Spierig
- Writer
- Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
- Year
- 2014
- Runtime
- 1 hr 37 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook, Noah Taylor, Christopher Kirby
- Genre
- drama, dystopian, intersex, science fiction, thriller, time-travel
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
A time-traveling agent has spent his career trying to stop a bomber whose attacks always slip beyond his reach. Working undercover as a bartender, he meets a young writer with an extraordinary account of abandonment and betrayal. Offering the writer a chance at revenge draws both into a mission where changing the past may be inseparable from fulfilling it.
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