The Time Traveler’s Wife Trailer: Audrey Niffenegger’s Time-Travel Romance Heads To HBO In May
HBO By Sandy Schaefer/March 15, 2022 1:01 pm EST
A love story centered on a wayward time-traveler with “Sherlock” alum Steven Moffat serving as the head writer and executive producer — is this a new season of “Doctor Who”? Nah, but you would be forgiven for assuming as much after watching the trailer for “The Time Traveler’s Wife.” In actuality, it’s a series based on Audrey Niffenegger’s best-selling 2003 novel of the same name. This isn’t the first time the author’s story has made its way to the screen, either. In 2009, Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana starred in a film adaptation of the book, assuming the roles that are played by Rose Leslie (“Game of Thrones”) and Theo James (“Divergent”) in Moffat’s show.
“The Time Traveler’s Wife” follows Clare Abshire (Leslie), a woman whose relationship with her husband, Henry DeTamble (James), is complicated by Henry’s unusual genetic disorder, which causes him to fall back and forth in time at random and without warning. “I can’t keep hold of a current moment. I just slide off,” as Henry explains it in the series’ teaser.
The Time Traveler’s Wife Trailer: Audrey Niffenegger’s Time-Travel Romance Heads To HBO In May
HBO
By Sandy Schaefer/March 15, 2022 1:01 pm EST
A love story centered on a wayward time-traveler with “Sherlock” alum Steven Moffat serving as the head writer and executive producer — is this a new season of “Doctor Who”? Nah, but you would be forgiven for assuming as much after watching the trailer for “The Time Traveler’s Wife.” In actuality, it’s a series based on Audrey Niffenegger’s best-selling 2003 novel of the same name. This isn’t the first time the author’s story has made its way to the screen, either. In 2009, Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana starred in a film adaptation of the book, assuming the roles that are played by Rose Leslie (“Game of Thrones”) and Theo James (“Divergent”) in Moffat’s show.
“The Time Traveler’s Wife” follows Clare Abshire (Leslie), a woman whose relationship with her husband, Henry DeTamble (James), is complicated by Henry’s unusual genetic disorder, which causes him to fall back and forth in time at random and without warning. “I can’t keep hold of a current moment. I just slide off,” as Henry explains it in the series’ teaser.
“The Time Traveler’s Wife” follows Clare Abshire (Leslie), a woman whose relationship with her husband, Henry DeTamble (James), is complicated by Henry’s unusual genetic disorder, which causes him to fall back and forth in time at random and without warning. “I can’t keep hold of a current moment. I just slide off,” as Henry explains it in the series’ teaser.
Watch the Time Traveler’s Wife teaser
Full cards on the table: After a strong start, I felt Moffat failed to realize the loftier ideas he introduced early on back when he was head writer on “Doctor Who.” Even worse, as the show went on under his watch, he started resorting more and more to his worst motifs as a writer (like his habits of penning overly quip-y dialogue and intriguing sub-plots that flame out in frustrating ways). I know others have had similar feelings about his work in the past, be it “Jekyll,” “Sherlock,” or the “Dracula” series he co-created with Mark Gatiss. It’s why I’m wary of him taking on “The Time Traveler’s Wife,” least of all because Niffenegger’s novel really doesn’t lend itself to his style of storytelling.
That being said, it would be great if Moffat evolved his writing to better fit “The Time Traveler’s Wife” and its themes about love, loss, and life, and not vice vera (as skeptical as I am about assuming he did). We’ll just have to wait and see what happens when the show arrives on HBO in May.
