The Man Who Fell to Earth is a 1987 television pilot created by an attempted television series based on Walter Tevis's 1963 novel and Nicolas Roeg's 1976 film.
There are some distinct changes from the novel. Most notably, the names of the main characters have been changed - while the World Enterprises retains its name from the source material, Thomas Jerome Newton's name has been changed to John Dory (Lewis Smith), Oliver Farnsworth's name become...
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The Man Who Fell to Earth is a 1987 television pilot created by an attempted television series based on Walter Tevis's 1963 novel and Nicolas Roeg's 1976 film.
There are some distinct changes from the novel. Most notably, the names of the main characters have been changed - while the World Enterprises retains its name from the source material, Thomas Jerome Newton's name has been changed to John Dory (Lewis Smith), Oliver Farnsworth's name becomes Felix Hawthorne (James Laurenson), and Nathan Bryce's name becomes Vernon Gage (Bruce McGill). Yet, in spite of these changes, the plot itself and much of the detail remains intact from the source material; when John Dory meets Hawthorne the dialogue is almost identical to the original dialogue between Newton and Farnsworth.
In some ways, this adaptation was closer to the source material than the 1976 film adaptation - the alien's affection for oatmeal is retained in this adaptation, as is his tendency to sleep rarely. With improved special...
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