Hollywood writers take their act from print to screen, and vice versa by Lisa Kennedy
The book was fine, but it wasn't as good as the movie." How often have you heard that? Exactly. On the other hand, the book-to-movie lament is by now so familiar that it's a wonder studios return to the literary well at all. Among screen versions of black fiction, Native Son, The Color Purple and Beloved come to mind as novels that tower over their movie adaptations. Teased by a fine work of fiction, the great expectations of an audience nearly always go unmet once those tales are cast on the big screen. But Hollywood is a hungry machine constantly in need of stories.
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