Translating novels to film becomes a greater challenge for filmmakers

[terry78]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080112/ap_on_en_mo/film_page_to_screen

Not that it was never easy, of course.

 

[StrainedEyes]

Why did it become a greater challenge? That article seemed pointless to me.

 

[hammy]

How so? How is it greater, now?

Edit: Oops, I was still reading when you posted, lol. I agree. The title of the thread really doesn't make any sense to the article.

 

[xwolverine2]

the article doesnt reveal anything new

 

[StrainedEyes]

Why won't Terry clue us in???

 

[ChickenScratch]

The article did tell me that this lady has no taste in literature and just loves whatever's popular at the moment.

LOS ANGELES - David Benioff was sitting on a plane, having a perfectly pleasant conversation with an elderly passenger about his job as a screenwriter, when he mentioned that he was working on an adaptation of "The Kite Runner."
"She grabbed my arm and said, `That's my favorite novel. Don't change a word!'"

 

[xwolverine2]

Why won't Terry clue us in???

he's busy writing an article on how it was recently discovered that the holocaust may have been caused by Nazis

 

[nocomics]

I can see how its gonna be harder to translate novels to film,because its becoming a lost art. All they are doing now is doing remakes,remakes and more remakes..