Time Traveler Wife

Audrey Niffenegger is working on the novel's sequel, titled The Other Husband.

As of 2019, Audrey has confirmed that she is still working on the sequel, telling The Star: "Well, the interesting part is that the book is still not finished… Audrey has been working on the book for quite some time now, and opened up about what to expect on Reddit back in 2014. She said: "I started working on Alba's life because Zola Books was issuing the ebook for [Time Traveler’s Wife] and they asked for an 'extra'. Then I got a bit obsessed with her, and decided to keep working on it.

The series was primarily shot in New York City. Rose Leslie as Clare Abshire & Theo James as Henry DeTamble. HBO.

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Adapted from the international best seller by Audrey Niffenegger, it tells the story of Clare Abshire (Rose Leslie) and Henry DeTamble (Theo James), couple who ...

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The Time Traveler's Wife is a romantic, science fiction drama created by Steven Moffat and based on the novel of the same name by Audrey Niffenegger.

The first episode sure is lukewarm but, if the show focuses more on staying connected to the book it might just stand out. Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time Traveler’s Wife has already been adapted once, so the question that arises for HBO Max’s this limited series is: Is it even necessary? However, as much as the series tries to entice us, there is one big aspect of the show that just does not sit well in the 21st century- an older Henry befriending a young Clare during her childhood.

The new show is the second adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger's 2003 bestselling novel of the same name; the first was a 2009 movie starring Rachel McAdams and ...

“The Time Traveler’s Wife” season one features six episodes. HBO Max does not offer a free trial, so you’ll need a subscription to watch “The Time Traveler’s Wife.” If you buy them, we may get a small share of the revenue from the sale from our partners. You can watch “The Time Traveler’s Wife” exclusively on the HBO cable channel and HBO Max streaming service. For $15 a month, you can upgrade to HBO Max ‘s ad-free plan, which adds 4K playback support for select titles and the ability to download shows and movies to watch offline HBO Max is available on most major media devices, including smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, streaming, sticks, and streaming boxes. HBO Max starts at $10 a month for ad-supported access to the service’s entire streaming library.

Written by a Scot, adapted from an American novel, with a US director and two Brits playing Americans in the lead roles, HBO and Sky Atlantic co-production ...

As well as The Time Traveler’s Wife, he played male lead Sidney Parker in Jane Austen adaptation Sanditon, and can soon be seen in season two of Mike White’s acclaimed The White Lotus. Rose Leslie isn’t the only Time Traveler cast member to have made an early appearance in Downton Abbey, British actor Theo James played the brief but certainly memorable part of Kemal Pamuk, the Turkish (James, who is married to Irish actor Ruth Kearney, is part Greek) diplomat who dies suddenly of a heart attack while in bed with Lady Mary Crawley (Michelle Dockery) in the very first episode. Written by a Scot, adapted from an American novel, with a US director and two Brits playing Americans in the lead roles, HBO and Sky Atlantic co-production The Time Traveler’s Wife could scarcely be more transatlantic.

Audrey Niffenegger's best-selling 2003 book, The Time Traveler's Wife, has been reinterpreted as a TV series and will debut on Sky Atlantic.

©2022 Home Box Office, Inc. All rights reserved The story of this complicated marriage also lends itself perfectly to a TV series where all the intricacies of the relationship are explored in more detail and through a lens of retrospection rather than time travel, as Moffat notes. Another interesting reinterpretation of the book and movie is how Rose and Henry chronicle their story via on-camera confessionals, something you’re more likely to see in a documentary or reality show than a drama series, which adds to the realism of the unbelievable situations they both find themselves in throughout the series. Rose’s on-screen husband Henry DeTamble is played by Divergent star Theo James, and in the first trailer released their on-screen chemistry is apparent from the get-go. ‘What is thrilling of the interaction of time travel and a love story here, is it makes the most common phenomenon of a completely happy marriage, interesting again. ‘By scrambling it all up and constantly reminding you that love is inextricably linked to loss, which is a cheery thought, you make this very common phenomenon of a happy marriage, thrilling and full of attention and tragedy.’

The Time Traveler's Wife writer Steven Moffat reveals an early Doctor Who episode of his was actually based on the novel by Audrey Niffenegger.

While Moffat has never revealed exactly what the author's reaction to River Song's storyline on Doctor Who was, it can't have been too harsh, as she gave Moffat permission to adapt her book for the screen. The character of River Song (played by Alex Kingston) serves as the titular Doctor's wife, and must live with the fact that she will always be meeting the Doctor out of order, due to his constant time travelling. As The Time Traveler's Wife is based on a novel, and there has already been one film adaptation starring Rachel McAdams back in 2009, the property comes with a fanbase who have some pretty high expectations of Moffat. Of course, he is no stranger to dealing with passionate fanbases.

Steven Moffat brings back to life the Audrey Niffenegger novel as it arrives on the small screen. Here's how to watch The Time Traveler's Wife online where ...

Find out how to watch The Time Traveler's Wife online and stream the 2022 TV series where you are. Unfortunately, those in the UK will have to buy or rent with no current streaming home for the 2009 romantic sci-fi. New customers can enjoy a 14-day free trial of the service, after which plans start from $10 a month with its Basic plan. Crave Mobile costs $9.99 a month (+tax), limiting you to one stream at a time. Based on the best-selling novel by Audrey Niffenegger, Steven Moffat (Doctor Who, Sherlock) brings The Time Traveler's Wife to the small screen in the second adaptation of this sci-fi romance story. Henry DeTamble (James), a librarian living and working in Chicago, suffers from a rare genetic disorder that causes him to travel back in time to significant places and people throughout his life.

Rose Leslie and Theo James star in Steven Moffat's sometimes uncomfortable but often rewarding adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger's novel The Time Traveler's ...

Sometimes it is spiky and uncomfortable, often by accident and sometimes seemingly without realising.; at other times, there’s something genuinely affecting about it, using the sci-fi contrivance as a way to say things about lingering trauma and the unpredictability of love. The Time Traveler’s Wife comes across not as a retread but as an evolution, maybe even a maturation, of his work on Doctor Who. It’s not the first time he’s tackled these themes, but as The Time Traveler’s Wife continues (a second series is currently in development) it might one day grow to become the best. The series is grounded by James and Leslie, who each have quite difficult jobs here – him playing Henry at different ages and as fundamentally different people, her as the closest thing The Time Traveler’s Wife has to a still point to anchor itself around. There’s a real emotional clarity to the series, cutting through the complexities presented by time travel – she’s disappointed he’s not yet the man he’s going to become, but he only becomes that man with her influence – to get to the heart of the romance underneath. The Time Traveler’s Wife invokes a particular tradition of children’s literature, drawing on stories like Tom’s Midnight Garden to lend scenes with the young Claire an almost fairytale-aesthetic - but there’s something quite jolting about how that childhood innocence is then juxtaposed with sex scenes. What it also means is that when he meets Claire Abshire (Rose Leslie) for the first time at 28, she already knows who he is – she’s met his future self, and she knows they’re going to be married one day.

Warning: Spoilers for The Time Traveler's Wife Season 1, Episode 1 follow. The series opened with an interview with Henry and Claire, at two very different ages ...

It certainly makes having a love affair — or at least having one in any semblance of order — challenging to say the least. One causes your blood platelets to not clot with each other; the other causes your existence to not clot with the timeline. But where stories like The Fault In Our Stars have one of the two lovers dying of cancer, Henry’s genetic disorder causes him to become unstuck in time. (1970’s Love Story is a classic of the genre.) The Time Traveler’s Wife features a love story with a very unusual structure. Just because younger Henry had his head up his read end (or does currently) at being told he’s met his future spouse was not a good reason to give up on the love they will eventually have.

…OK, there is one timey wimey mystery-box element, because Moffat. Spoilers for The Time Traveler's Wife pilot. In case you need a reminder, Niffenegger's novel ...

Despite older, married Clare telling the camcorder that the hardest part of their relationship is waiting, what we’re actually witnessing is the dissonance for Clare, who has fallen in love with her idealized older Henry—just gray and just grave enough to project stability and unconditional love—only to discover that she doesn’t get to be with him. On the same day that 28-year-old Henry meets Clare for the first time (for him), he also goes back in time to start training his 7-year-old self on his (their) first bout of time travel. The future spouses’ first linear meeting in 2008 also triggers 36-year-old Henry to go back into the past so that he can start interacting with 6-year-old Clare (cementing their present), only to detour into that present on his way home so that he also ensures that 20-year-old Clare gives his asshole self a second chance. He said, ‘You have two things to do with your time on this Earth: one, find the love of your life; and two, die as slowly as possible.’ You did part one tonight, part two starts now. Not today.” As established with the blood, this means that somewhere else in time, another version of him is having what will no doubt be the worst time jump of them all. Older Henry calling his younger self Junior is delightful (and perhaps an Indiana Jones reference?), but then he drops the bombshell on this scared kid who, he just told Clare, time travel has never done anything good for: For however much time we have together discussing this show, let’s refer to the present-day (that is, 2008) lovers as Henry and Clare. He’s 28, she’s 20, they’ve just met for the first time chronologically. And then the young Mr. DeTamble—who has had twenty years of experience running, fighting, and talking his way out of every dangerous time-travel situation—steps deeper into the shit by somehow blaming Clare for him having a girlfriend he just cheated on, then basically calling Clare crazy and implying that that was the more compelling reason for him to fuck her than the idea of them being soulmates. Their personalities clash in little discoveries about one another, but for each misstep there’s a frisson of tension to paper that up, and it’s a foregone conclusion that they’ll be going home together. The snappy banter is reminiscent of Coupling, with the Möbius strip of their argument less about the mechanics of time travel and more the romance premise of you mean to say I fall in love with you? The pilot doesn’t make the best first impression, starting out overwrought thanks to dual voiceover, a cringey home-video frame story (with unfortunate aging makeup), and the dare-we-say-twee note of recreating the book cover in its opening credits. But because he hasn’t yet started traveling back in time to meet her, he has no idea why this hot redhead is looking at him like he’s the Holy Grail.

The newest TV adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger's 2003 novel is raising eyebrows, as some reviewers and viewers have noted the 'uncomfortable' timeline of ...

He makes himself the man she wants him to be because he loves her,' he went on to say. She continues: "And I'm not the only one." Henry flows around Clare like a river around a rock. In the 2003 book and its latest TV adaptation, Henry travels back in time to when Clare is six-years-old From Clare's perspective, she meets Henry for the first time when he is 31 and she is six. Some viewers said the fact Henry and Clare once meet when she is six and he is 31 was 'creepy' and 'grooming'

Henry DeTamble, the time traveler, calls his special capability a disability, knowing how it has affected the normalcy of his life. The series stays true to the ...

This hints at the fact that the blood that Henry had witnessed was the blood that he would lose as a result of a probable accident. While both “The Time Traveler’s Wife” film and the series have their obvious sets of similarities, there is a clear difference in treatment, making it quite interesting to watch. One was to find the love of his life, and the other was to die as slowly as possible. In that video, Henry is bound to a wheelchair, indicating how he would eventually lose his feet. He went closer to the source and found his severed feet. She wanted answers from Henry, who informed her that he had a girlfriend named Ingrid. He did not reveal the truth to her because he wanted to take advantage of the situation, as well as because he could not make himself confess the truth, knowing that the woman in front of him believed she would be his wife. He said that he was advised by an old man to do so, referring to his older self, who was bound to a wheelchair. To her surprise, Clare went to the washroom and found the clothing of another woman. HBO’s “The Time Traveler’s Wife” series brings a freshness to the story after the 2009 film adaptation of the same name. Because 28-year-old Henry had never met Clare before the library incident, that version of himself did not know about the impact Clare would have on his life. Those were the things he had to learn to survive against the odds he had to encounter. The series stays true to the ending of the book authored by Audrey Niffenegger, confirming the loss of his feet in the first episode itself.

Based on the bestselling 2003 debut novel by author Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife tells the story of Henry DuTamble, a time traveler whose ...

This model of temporal mechanics essentially means The Time Traveler's Wife should not be judged as a love story at all. This makes The Time Traveler's Wife unique in its romance, a story unlike any other. Here's exactly how time travel works in this story - and what this model of time travel means for Henry and Clare. On the more sinister side, The Time Traveler's Wife episode 1 ends with the revelation Henry's feet will be amputated at some point, and are also jaunting through the timeline with impunity. Based on the bestselling 2003 debut novel by author Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife tells the story of Henry DuTamble, a time traveler whose ability is rather more of a curse than it is a blessing. HBO's The Time Traveler's Wife introduces viewers to a very different form of time travel - and here's how it works.

Rose Leslie plays the eponymous wife opposite Theo James in this new adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger's bestselling novel.

In flashbacks, a younger Clare interacted with different versions of Henry, as he popped up at inopportune moments: we saw him pinging back to the early 90s, when he met her as a child; later, as a callow 28-year-old, he “connected” with her again (and failed to tell her he had a girlfriend). He doesn’t even get to meet any dinosaurs, as his time travel is restricted to his own lifespan. Leslie’s latest project, The Time Traveler’s Wife, finds her collaborating with another icon of geekdom: Sherlock/ Doctor Who writer Steven Moffat. The opening episode proved a match forged in magical realist heaven, with Leslie adopting an American accent and excelling as the spouse of a man cursed to flip backwards and forwards through time forever.

Steven Moffat's adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger's 2003 bestseller is witty and well done, but it can't overcome the novel's depressingly old-fashioned and ...

The first is the ick factor occasioned by Henry’s many visits as a grown man to Clare as a child. The great trauma of Henry’s past (and future, as he returns to the scene at various ages, always powerless to avert his mother’s fate) is unpacked, while troubles are foreshadowed from different angles and eras before they come to pass. James makes credible Henry’s evolution from brash young “asshole” – Clare’s word – to god among men, even if the camera panning mournfully across the piles of clothes he leaves behind every time he vanishes is always inescapably amusing. It is, in short, guff of a high order. He learns to find his feet (and some clothes) a little faster each time. Alan Bennett once defined a classic as a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

Rose Leslie and Theo James lead this new iteration of the doomed romance tale.

This is not the story of a man trapped in a Sisyphean nightmare, bound to revisit the worst events of his life, but a quirky romcom about an often-naked man and his beautiful child bride. “Are we the bad guys?” an eight-year-old Henry asks his older self, on the first occasion that he time travels. He proceeds to visit her – arriving, let’s not forget, naked as the day he was born – 152 times over the course of her childhood. Let’s get the creepy stuff out of the way. The two Brits (both comfortable playing Americans) make for a good-looking couple, and while their performances might lack that deep star-making charisma, they are both very at home on a more diminutively proportioned screen. Henry (Theo James, a built-in-a-lab Hollywood man) is a time traveller.

Former Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat responds to concerns over grooming in his new adaptation of The Time Traveler's Wife for HBO.

All in all, it seems that viewers are hoping for a passionate and nuanced romance to be formed over the course of the show. In an interview with TV Line, Moffat pushed back against the notion of "grooming" and explained his approach to handling the main couple's relationship during Claire's childhood: That's because Steven Moffat and HBO's The Time Traveler's Wife, based on the popular book by Audrey Niffenegger, has just premiered.

The Time Traveler's Wife episode 1 openly admits the core problem with Audrey Niffenegger's story - a problem in every single adaptation.

There is no freedom of choice, only destiny - as the dramatic ending of The Time Traveler's Wife episode 1 demonstrates. This is because, unfortunately, the problems lie at the very heart of the story. Clare met a future version of Henry when she was just a child, and she formed herself around this relationship, knowing for most of her life this was the man she was destined to marry.

Rose Leslie and Theo James lead this new iteration of the doomed romance tale.

This is not the story of a man trapped in a Sisyphean nightmare, bound to revisit the worst events of his life, but a quirky romcom about an often-naked man and his beautiful child bride. “Are we the bad guys?” an eight-year-old Henry asks his older self, on the first occasion that he time travels. He proceeds to visit her – arriving, let’s not forget, naked as the day he was born – 152 times over the course of her childhood. Let’s get the creepy stuff out of the way. The two Brits (both comfortable playing Americans) make for a good-looking couple, and while their performances might lack that deep star-making charisma, they are both very at home on a more diminutively proportioned screen. Henry (Theo James, a built-in-a-lab Hollywood man) is a time traveller.

Theo has made appearances in Downton Abbey, the Divergent Series and The Inbetweeners Movie.

He would go on to feature in two sequels and the Divergent series proved to be successful. This taste of stardom would late prove useful for Theo, as he would go on to star in the Divergent series of films. The role put Theo in the public-eye on a level that he had not achieved before. Theo would have a promising start to his career on the small screen in 2010 with appearances in Downton Abbey, Bedlam and a role that most people will know him for - The Inbetweeners Movie in 2011. Theo, born in Buckinghamshire in England, is the son of a business consultant and an NHS worker. The Time Traveller's Wife recently began airing on Sky Atlantic and viewers have been wondering where they have seen lead star, Theo James, before.