Everyone knows that it’s tough to turn books into movies. How do you deal with internal monologues? With the world-building that good writers do effortlessly, and in the background? Do you just give up on conveying the tone of the writer’s words, and focus on the narrative?
Yet it’s also true that, if you turn a popular novel into a film, it can do very well; adjusted for inflation, the best-performing movie of all time remains 1939’s Gone with the Wind, which earned $3.3 billion in 2014 dollars. Steven Spielberg succeeded similarly with Jaws (adapted from Peter Benchley) which was
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