Book Adaptations

Due to the physical and logistical constraints when making movies—as opposed to writing words on paper—even the best books need drastic changes to be adapted for the big screen. Movie adaptations require the screenwriter and director to trim the story down to its most essential elements. That isn’t always easy. When done well, this results in a movie that unfolds plot and explores themes more effectively than the book might have done....

For many years, the movie adaptation has been the pinnacle of success for many authors, a milestone that clearly proved a book’s popularity. Becoming a movie allowed an author’s work to reach a vast audience and have the knock-on effect of repopularizing their original work. But when a book is too dense to comprehensively adapt into a two-hour movie, what do you do? For a while, the answer was: movie series....