Rather than dealing with paranoia, it’s more about growth, both emotional and physical. The boy has been replaced by Hikaru Takabe, a teenaged girl, and the conflict plays out in a vastly different manner. The hostile alien has hidden inside another human, and they must solve the puzzle before it’s too late.ħ Billion Needles keeps the broad strokes of the story.
The alien is on Earth in hot pursuit of another alien, a hostile one this time, and enlists the boy to help in that battle. In Needle, an alien life form comes to Earth and takes up residence inside a human boy. It’s based on Needle, a science-fiction novel from 1950 by Hal Clement. Nobuaki Tadano’s 7 Billion Needles, the latter half of which was published this year, is an adaptation that justifies its own existence. Adaptations need to reveal some previously hidden truth or adjust the story for a new context in order to be truly worthwhile. What does Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 do that Arthur C Clarke’s novel doesn’t? That justification is crucial, because otherwise, why not just read the book? Adaptations that are just direct, or near-direct, copies, like Robert Rodriguez’s Sin City or Zach Snyder’s Watchmen may provide a briefly visceral thrill at seeing what was previously limited to your imagination turned into real life and then displayed on a giant screen, but they don’t have anything over the original works beyond being films. The first thing adaptations of any sort need to do is justify their existence.
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