“For every The Remains of the Day (good book, good film), there’s a Scarlet Letter (good, bad), The Exorcist (bad, good) or The Da Vinci Code (double-bad, even worse).”
Me on Louise Willder’s entertaining compendium of book-to-film disasters (and delights), The Book Was Better:
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The Book Was Better — the hazards of adapting novels for the screen
Louise Willder’s lively and entertaining compendium explores why the process often fails
