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Novels provide a large percentage of inspiration for a sizable chuck of all films produced each year,1 and this has only grown with the marked surge in interest towards superhero genre as of the year 20002, thanks to the many profitable franchises that they spawned.3
From a built-in fan base providing a near-guaranteed level of some box-office success to the fact that by wont of being a published novel to the gold-rush effect of studio’s wanting to copy one another whenever success is found and striking whilst the iron is hot, Hollywood has a long history of pulling from the shelves of libraries looking for inspiration on what to bring to the silver screen. However, box-office hit or no, not all adaptions are as beloved by the authors that spawned them as they are by fans. Be they classics such as P.L. Travers’ Mary Poppins or the a part of the aforementioned superhero class like Alan Moore’s Watchmen, it is far from uncommon to have an author possess very heated feelings towards the cinematic adaptions of their work. |