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The Ferryman is a 2023 dystopian fiction novel by Justin Cronin. The protagonist, Proctor Bennett, is a titular "ferryman", responsible for transporting elderly citizens to be reborn. Proctor gradually realizes that his utopian life is not what it seems. The Ferryman is Cronin's first novel since 2016's The City of Mirrors.
He is a former professor of English at Rice University, and he lives with his wife and children in Houston, Texas. [2] In July 2017, Variety reported that Fox 2000 had bought the screen rights to Cronin's vampire trilogy. [3] The first book of the series, The Passage, was released in June 2010. [4] It garnered mainly favorable reviews.
The production transferred to the Gielgud Theatre, opening on 29 June 2017, following previews from 20 June. [3] After a first cast change on 9 October 2017 with William Houston (Quinn Carney), Sarah Greene (Caitlin Carney), Ivan Kaye (Tom Kettle) and others joining the company, [6] a second cast change took place on 8 January 2018, featuring Rosalie Craig (as Caitlin Carney), Owen McDonnell ...
Who Pays the Ferryman? is a television series produced by the BBC in 1977. The title of the series alludes to the ancient religious belief and mythology surrounding Charon, the ferryman to Hades. In antiquity, it was customary to place coins in or on the mouth of the deceased before cremation, symbolizing payment for the ferryman's service to ...
He attended Verulam Comprehensive School, St Albans, and St John's College, Cambridge, where he studied the English tripos and graduated in 1991. [2] All his brothers have been active in film and theatre: Steve is a producer, while Tom and John-Henry are writers.
Rosemary Aitken (born 1942) is an English author, who has written a number of academic textbooks and historical novels under her own name, and a series of whodunnits set in Roman Britain under the pen name of Rosemary Rowe. Her writings are similar to those of Philip Boast, Gloria Cook and Winston Graham. [citation needed]
Bullet for Stefano (Italian: Il Passatore, also known as The Ferryman) is a 1947 Italian adventure-drama-crime film written and directed by Duilio Coletti and starring Rossano Brazzi and Valentina Cortese. It is loosely based on real-life events of Stefano Pelloni (1824-1851), an Italian highwayman known as "Il Passatore". [1]
The Ferry Man Manjusaka (Chinese: 灵魂摆渡·黄泉篇) is a 2018 Chinese fantasy romance film starring He Hua, Richards Wang, Yu Yi, Yue Lina Meng, Ni Hongjie, Ju Xingmao, Zhao Hengxuan and Lu Jiani. [1]