The Body feat. Greg Steffensen

This month on a special episode of Unnatural Selection, join Emma and their partner Greg on a journey along the train tracks to find the adaptation process of Stephen King’s The Body. How did they get the film title Stand By Me? Why is this Emma’s favorite movie? Would Pokémon be the same as we know it today if the adaptation had kept more of the classic Kingian gross-outs?   Content warnings for The Body include: death of a child, child abuse, death of a sibling, PTSD, fatphobia, leeches, vivid descriptions of vomit, and a very bitter narrator.   Content warnings for Stand By Me include: all of the above, period-standard homophobia, heavy-handed 50’s nostalgia.   Additional content warnings for this episode include: discussions of child actors and the common abuses they face, sexual misconduct in Hollywood, and references to drug overdose.   The articles and interviews Emma references in this episode can be found here: https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2571820/adapting-stephen-king-the-body-reflecting-nostalgic-beauty-stand-by-me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxOou0vBRf0 https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/aug/09/how-we-made-stand-by-me-kiefer-sutherland-rob-reiner https://deadline.com/2023/12/kiefer-sutherland-stand-by-me-river-phoenix-1235681581/ https://www.pdxmonthly.com/arts-and-culture/2021/08/why-stand-by-me-is-still-important-movie https://ew.com/movies/wil-wheaton-says-abusive-childhood-inspired-stand-by-me-performance/   You can find Emma on twitter @ematsca and the show @UnselectPod. Greg can be found on tumblr at hedgeaugur and discord at Hamamelis. Unnatural Selection is a part of the Moonshot Podcast Network. If you like what you’ve heard from Emma and want to support them, you can become a patron at patreon.com/moonshotnetwork

The music for this show was commissioned from and composed by Jake Loranger. You can check out more of his work at https://amaranthine.bandcamp.com/