Odd Thomas
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Sep 15, 2026
ConradHOST
Well, we are skipping forward to the 2010s, Dan, to examine the 2013 supernatural thriller...
ConradHOST
Odd Thomas.
ConradHOST
Ah, it's a Dean Kuntz adaptation film.
ConradHOST
It is indeed, yeah.
DanHOST
I
ConradHOST
will do.
ConradHOST
And I will be watching Odd Thomas on the plane because we're recording it the day I land.
ConradHOST
Oh, I hope you don't have
Erik RodenhiserHOST
Well, let's get started.
Erik RodenhiserHOST
Stephen Sommers, great film, Odd Thomas.
Art HennesseyHOST
Yeah, that was later.
Art HennesseyHOST
Yeah, I did
23 MINS LATER
Erik RodenhiserHOST
This is where everybody was like, Hugh
speaker_1UNKNOWN
Jackman.
Art HennesseyHOST
I think he had just done Wolverine, right? He had just filmed Wolverine right before this.
Art HennesseyHOST
And strangely enough, the director said it was from seeing him as Curly in Oklahoma on Broadway that he cast him.
Brian WishartHOST
What was the last Stephen Sommers movie?
MaeveGUEST
It was, like, a 2013 movie, Odd Thomas.
Brian WishartHOST
Oh.
Brian WishartHOST
Is that based on, um-
speaker_3HOST
He sells tens of millions of copies, and yet the screen has only taken roughly 17 of his books.
speaker_2HOST
Titles like Watchers, Phantoms, Odd Thomas, and as the text points out, very few of these became actual cultural events, and several just completely vanished without a trace.
speaker_3HOST
Yeah.
speaker_2HOST
So why? If the audience is buying the paperback at the airport by the millions, why isn't the translation to screen working for him?
speaker_2HOST
They basically broke the recipe trying to make it digestible.
speaker_3HOST
Perfectly said.
speaker_3HOST
The source mentions the 2013 adaptation of Odd Thomas as the last widely noted attempt to crack the Koontz formula.
speaker_3HOST
The drought since then isn't a verdict on his novels.