Subj : books to film or tv
To   : Charles Pierson
From : August Abolins
Date : Sun Nov 01 2020 20:35:15

On 01/11/2020 4:14 a.m., Charles Pierson : August Abolins wrote:

 CP> ..The author was on the list as
 CP> well. He mentioned several times over the years of various
 CP> projects or deals such as possible movie or television
 CP> adaptations.

There are quite a few authors who seem to write as if their stories
would play out as a movie.  Some are:

James Patterson
Dean Koontz
Dan Brown


 CP> ..While negotiations were going on, he would
 CP> never say anything more than he was in talks about a
 CP> project. Not even what the project was, until negotiations
 CP> were complete.

They are often under a do-not-disclose clause.

Sometimes the author is very particular in having control in the
story-line for a film version.

One recent story I compared between book and film was Diamonds are
Forever.  The film is a very radical departure from the original
story.  I guess some film directors/screenwriters believe they can
improve the original.


 CP> The only thing out of all of that I saw over the years was
 CP> a comic book/graphic novel type adaptation of one of his
 CP> short stories.

Is that a quiz?  Who is that author?


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