I'm writing a wikipedia article on the mutant rats featured in James Herberts book series, and I'd like to write a small note on their movie portrayel (I myself havent seen it). Were the rats lead by a giant mutant in the film?
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nope, not that I recall. I watched it a couple months ago
shareI see. Well, heres the article.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Black_Rat
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sounds like you are getting this film mixed up with stephen kings night shift in which there was a giant mutant rat/bat!!!!!!
shareI think he's referring to Herbert's book when he mentions a giant mutant rat. I haven't read all of Herbert's rat books, but I read the first one ("The Rats"), and there were huge mutant rats the size of cats, that led the ordinary rats.
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In Herbert’s Book the Rats are lead by a mutant two-headed white rat.
King admits in dance Macabre that he was inspired to write graveyard shift after reading 'The Rats'
The Film version has almost nothing to do with the original novel.
Herbert sites it as his worst experience (and there have been many bad ones) of having one of his novels adapted for the screen.
LOTS OF DRIED FROG PILLS
Isn't the 2 headed rat from Lair, the second novel?
shareYup.
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The giant mutant rat was from 'Domain' the last in the trilogy.
Set around Chancery Lane/Grays Inn area and post nuclear strike.
But i could be wrong, as i read it about 25 years ago,lol.
the mutant rat pops up in the first books end, and has bigger role in the last 2 novels, hell it even mated in the 2nd book,
what doesn't kill you hasn't been done properly.
He writes about a mutant 2 headed rat at the very end of The Rats as well.
shareFirst things first, the blind, two-headed, hairless white mutant rat is at the heart of all three books in the trilogy, generally as the mother, if you will, of all the others.
Now I have not seen this film and just from reading this page, have no desire to but I would like to say that given the cgi technology available and as witnessed in the brilliant Rise of the Planet of the Apes, why has the book not been optioned and adapted properly to make what would be a most incredible, and hopefully totally faithful, movie.
If James Herbert OBE (and congrats on that, by the way, very well deserved) happens to read this site and sees this comment, write it yourself or at least keep final script approval and please, please, please give the world the proper version of The Rats that it is, or at least I am, crying out for.
"You are the one who was....."
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