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Originally Posted by carpetmojo
I believe he wasn't that happy with it...... Authors have a difficult choice, I suppose - they'd probably like their work to enter a new medium, but the writer, especially in Hollywood, has always been the least important factor, which is changing a bit, but usually only after the first successful one. Often the price of a film can be to surrender artistic control, to all intents and purposes.
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A film is not a book, and the medium has different constraints. Many books really
can't be filmed "as is", and sometimes attempts to try are less than successful. (The first few Harry Potter films got criticized because they
did try to adhere closely to the books, and might have been better
films had they been less slavish in their adaptation.)
Meanwhile, film rights tend to go for significant sums. The price of a film is a lot of money. A popular author who sells film rights to a book is likely to make more money from that sale than on all of his written works combined. But that seems to be Hollywood all over: you surrender all artistic control, but you can make a lot of money. People who get work in films grit their teeth and deposit the checks.
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Dennis