Episode 96: Book to Movie Adaptations - Why Are They So Hard?
If you’re a longtime fan of a book and you hear it’s being made into a movie, you may have a mix of joy and dread, as so many of the adaptations over the years have not met up to the book fans’ approvals. This episode, we look at some of the common follies that adapters will run into that cause fans to cry foul, then Kurt picks out a couple of films he think got it just right.
As promised in the show, you can find the study showing movie runtimes getting longer right here.
A standard book page (about 300 words) vs…
a typical film script page (250 words on average). How do you squeeze one into the other?