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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
They wouldn’t need to be professional or perfect, just well-intentioned and armed with uncontroversial foundational source material.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Pyrobitumen is an insoluble form of organic carbon that develops when buried crude oil or kerogen -- a source material for natural gas -- is subjected to intense heating deep below the surface.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
They both saw in the source material a story that was a combination of classic 1970s films like “Network” and “Dog Day Afternoon.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Pulcinella is sparklingly inventive with its source material but it is nevertheless the musical equivalent of placing the Art Deco spire of Manhattan's Chrysler Building on top of Christopher Wren's Greenwich Hospital.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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