High-Def Digest: The Bonus ViewWeekend Roundtable: The Book Was Better - High-Def Digest: The Bonus View https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/weekend-roundtable-poor-book-to-movie-adaptations/ A High-Def Digest Blog Wed, 13 May 2020 15:26:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Weekend Roundtable: The Book Was Better https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/weekend-roundtable-poor-book-to-movie-adaptations/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/weekend-roundtable-poor-book-to-movie-adaptations/#comments Fri, 11 Aug 2017 19:00:19 +0000 Josh Zyber http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=86460 Hollywood often turns to adapting popular books as the basis for new movies. Occasionally this works out, but frequently the resulting films are pale shadows of their source material. For this week’s Roundtable, we look at movies that fail to capture the essence or particular brilliance of the books they were based on. Luke Hickman...

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