Best And Worst Book-To-Film Adaptations

Speaking Generally

We all know Hollywood is obsessed with taking valuable Intellectual Property and turning it into movies. And nowhere is this more common than turning books into films. But adaptation is a medium as old as the hills. Many opera's are based on Shakespearean plays and epic poems, plays are based on histories, paintings adapt scenes from the Bible... So in this episode, we look at the best and worst instances of adaptation in movies, and try to pinpoint exactly what gets gained and lost when going from film to screen.