When Was 'Station Eleven' Written? Fans of the Book Think It's Eerily Prophetic

Dec. 23 2021, Published 1:56 p.m. ET

The latest HBO Max miniseries to captivate an target audience is Station Eleven, in keeping with the book of the same title through author Emily St. John Mandel. The tale takes place in the Great Lakes area prior to and after a fictional virus called the "Georgia flu" devastates the world.

The primary characters are connected in combination through a traveling theater troupe that performs Shakespeare on a quest to search out an airport the place civilization appears to be blooming again. Many enthusiasts of the book understand its eerie parallel to the present coronavirus pandemic, making them curious as to when the book was written. So, when was Station Eleven written? Here's what we know.

When did Emily St. John Mandel write 'Station Eleven'?

In an interview with Esquire from December 2021, Emily St. John Mandel recounts how, in early 2020, she gained a plethora of e-mail requests and essay op-eds about Station Eleven after the coronavirus pandemic swept the nation.

Station Eleven, which was written in 2014, appears to readers as eerily predictive of the future.

However, Emily insists that any parallels between her book and the provide are purely coincidental: "I really resisted talking about [the book] in any public way. I felt uncomfortable being cast as an expert. At the same time, I was doing Zoom events every night, where it became clear that people really wanted to talk about pandemics. Eventually, I surrendered."

Fans of the book and the display will note that even with the dire instances in Station Eleven, the issues are in the long run focused around humanity's patience despite the odds — a message that a society wracked via a plague could use presently.

"It's a story where civilization collapses, but our humanity persists — maybe there's something there that people wanted to absorb,” Mandel told the magazine. “At the same time, at the beginning of the pandemic, I remember the difficulty of adapting to a life of pure uncertainty. I wanted clues about how this might go or how it might end. I wanted certainty about the future. Maybe that’s why people reached for Station Eleven, to try to force ourselves to confront what could happen."

When was 'Station Eleven' filmed?

While filming the Station Eleven collection, actors found themselves impacted through the pandemic both of their non-public and professional lives. Filming began in January 2020 in Chicago, but briefly halted due to the coronavirus pandemic. Filming later resumed in Toronto, Canada, in February 2021. Thankfully, the actors have been in a position to complete filming via July 2021 with out additional delays.

Actress Mackenzie Davis, who performs Kirsten on the display, told The Hollywood Reporter that she was involved filming would by no means resume after the preliminary shutdown. "But I kind of thought we weren’t going to make this show at first because it was like, ‘Well, it’s a little on the nose, don’t we think?’ I don’t even think that is true now because the show is so much about everything afterwards and the pandemic part is minute. But it was very strange."

Episodes of Station Eleven air on Thursdays on HBO Max.

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