Comments on: Books into Movies http://hterry.com/books-into-movies Living in the south on the coast, working at one of the hospitals, going to school part-time and living with two hyperactive dogs. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:04:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: PaintingChef http://hterry.com/books-into-movies#comment-182 PaintingChef Wed, 01 Jun 2005 13:29:41 +0000 http://www.hterry.com/?p=56#comment-182 There have been some really disappointing movies fom books, I'll agree. "White Oleander" was one of them. I'm waiting for The Da Vinci Code to come out also, I can't wait. But I'm a little unsure about Tom Hanks playing the lead. He's not what I pictured at all... Found you through BlogExplosion. There have been some really disappointing movies fom books, I’ll agree. “White Oleander” was one of them.

I’m waiting for The Da Vinci Code to come out also, I can’t wait. But I’m a little unsure about Tom Hanks playing the lead. He’s not what I pictured at all…

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]]> By: Phil http://hterry.com/books-into-movies#comment-181 Phil Tue, 31 May 2005 03:53:22 +0000 http://www.hterry.com/?p=56#comment-181 Biggest reason movies are often different than the book is simple time constraint. If you were to take your average sized novel and make a movie <em>exactly</em> like it, the movie would be about 4.5 - 5 hours long. With a few exceptions, most movies that are longer than 2 hours wind up losing money. So, things need to be left out, which many times means other things need to be re-written so that the movie makes sense. As for whether or not the book author gets to write (or even have a say in) the screenplay, that all depends on the contract. A lot of fabulous authors couldn't write a screenplay to save their life--it's an entirely different beast. Actually, most of Stephen King's movies were scripted by others, though he has a lot of input on them. Biggest reason movies are often different than the book is simple time constraint. If you were to take your average sized novel and make a movie exactly like it, the movie would be about 4.5 - 5 hours long. With a few exceptions, most movies that are longer than 2 hours wind up losing money. So, things need to be left out, which many times means other things need to be re-written so that the movie makes sense.

As for whether or not the book author gets to write (or even have a say in) the screenplay, that all depends on the contract. A lot of fabulous authors couldn’t write a screenplay to save their life–it’s an entirely different beast. Actually, most of Stephen King’s movies were scripted by others, though he has a lot of input on them.

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