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How Did This Get Made?
The Specialist movie was based on novels by John Shirley; however, it was described as only being 'suggested by' the source material, implying significant changes were made by Stallone.
But June, have you read any of the novels that suggested this movie?
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Episode: The Specialist LIVE! (w/ Nicole Byer)
The Specialist movie was based on novels by John Shirley; however, it was described as only being 'suggested by' the source material, implying significant changes were made by Stallone.
But June, have you read any of the novels that suggested this movie?
It says, suggested by the specialist novels by John Shirley. Suggested by. Here June. What? What does that mean? What is the thing? I mean, I will just say, hinted at in the novels of What the fuck is this? It alluded to June, look, I took a picture.
So you're saying that the novelist, that John Shirley himself was like, I don't want this no longer represents my work This is a mere suggestion.