Good books are being ruined. Options

[Novander]

Audrey Niffenegger's magnificent book The Time Traveler's Wife is a favourite of mine and of many people on these boards. Pretty much everyone in fact. Everyone except Cand, and we know she's wrong so we can just ignore her here I think.

Point is, they're turning it into a movie and that sucks. I'm not saying it can't be turned into a good film; The Lord of the Rings, Fight Club and every odd numbered Harry Potter film prove that films can be just as enjoyable as the work they're adapted from. I'm just saying there should be an extremely strict process for deciding who is allowed to work on these projects.

For example, Hayden Christiansen is no longer allowed to play angsty sci-fi antiheroes. Star Wars and Jumper proved that he is not a good choice for Case in Neuromancer. Equally, Eric Bana is not allowed to be in The Time Traveler's Wife. His name makes me think of Hulk (fail) and Troy (epic fail), films I'd rather forget.

See, I started out trying to make this a noble post about artistic purity against overwhelming commercialism but quickly realised I just wanted to rant about them not asking me before adapting a book I like and then I threw a Neuromancer reference in to get Mata on my side.

[Mata]

I'm listening to the audio book versions of The Dresden Files at the moment. Not only do the books rock a lot more than the TV series, they're being read by James Masters, AKA Spike from Buffy! It turns out that he's a great reader.

This post may only bear a slight relation to the topic of discussion.

[Pixelgoth]

I'm listening to the audio book versions of The Dresden Files at the moment. Not only do the books rock a lot more than the TV series, they're being read by James Masters, AKA Spike from Buffy! It turns out that he's a great reader.

This post may only bear a slight relation to the topic of discussion.

Ooooo, drooooool! I actually really liked the TV series but it was absolute tosh :-D I just love watching absolute tosh sometimes. There's nothing wrong with it at all

Can you point me in the direction of these?!?

Wasn't that the one with a male, American director and Chinese lead actresses playing Japanese Geisha?

Yes it was and there was apparently a lot of controversy in China and Japan about that. Syuu is right though. The film is stunning but the book is better.

I was really disappointed with 'P.S. I Love You'. The book was magical (as with several of Celia Aherns books) and made me cry/laugh in lots of places and I felt really good after reading it but the film just made me feel really sad and I felt like bursting into tears on the way home. They'd changed some of the fundamental character interplays which changed the whole outcome of the book really