Amanda
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Matt Ruff:
Did you have a lot of say in the production of the HBO series? And are you happy they decided to adapt it into a series instead of cramming it into a 2 hour film? And do you think the adaptation did your book justice?
Matt Ruff
I wasn’t involved in the script writing or the production of the series, and I’ve only seen the first few episodes, but so far I’m extremely happy with what Misha Green and the rest of the team have accomplished. The show seems faithful to the spirit of the novel, without getting hung up on the details – I think it’s great that they’re using the book as a framework and then building even more wild stuff onto it.
The idea of turning the novel into a two-hour movie never came up. I can’t imagine how that could work, unless you were just going to take the title of the book and graft on a new story. It was always a given that it would be a series, the only question was how many episodes.
The idea of turning the novel into a two-hour movie never came up. I can’t imagine how that could work, unless you were just going to take the title of the book and graft on a new story. It was always a given that it would be a series, the only question was how many episodes.
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