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Flanagan has brought other Stephen King novels to the screen before, but those have tended to be much more faithful to the source material.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
"Polymer source material is abundantly available from consumer waste, and our catalyst system, aluminum molten salts, is very cheap," Qiu said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
The six-chapter season does make one tweak to its source material that’s certainly for the better: In the old stories, T&T took over a detective agency called Blunt’s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
An improvement on the source material: HBO’s new show Lanterns takes a character with an embarrassing history and makes him fascinating.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026
This was primary source material, research papers based on direct experimental data, involved theoretical constructions utilizing a complex vocabulary and containing a wealth of original ideas—and he was breaking his head on it.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
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