Charles Wallace. I don't think he ever was just called "Charles". And I never like the way he was just *gone* from the books about the next generation. They mention the twins (And their spouses), but not him.
Having watched over 200 adaptations of Agatha Christie films (see my book "Agatha Christie, She Watched: One Woman's Plot to Watch 201 Agatha Christie Movies Without Murdering the Director, Screenwriter, Cast, or Her Husband", I can definitively say Hollywood does as it pleases with little care for the source material.
If you want to remain close to the source material, you, dear writer and creator, better have an ironclad contract, have power of your own, and be on the set virtually every day to oversee what's being done to your book from the script writing to the editing room when filming's done.
Decisions get made for all kinds of reasons and the fact that film is a very different medium than print is only the start. Where the money comes from. The director's ego. The writer's ego. The flavor of the month to star. Who's available instead of who's the best acting choice. More money for cast means less money for period sets. What's currently fashionable. Not wanting to repeat what previous film versions did. Wanting to repeat a great idea from a previous film. The list is endless.
Now that we're watching all the International Agathas (assuming we can get them with English subtitles) I'll add cultural differences. The French, Swedes, Indians, South Koreans, Chinese, etc., etc. are NOT ENGLISH. The cultural behavior changes can be radical.
Not going to change until we get Conservative money behind moving the needle. I just find it odd investors are still supporting this drivel.
An effing racist insult to Madeleine L’Engle.
Charles Wallace. I don't think he ever was just called "Charles". And I never like the way he was just *gone* from the books about the next generation. They mention the twins (And their spouses), but not him.
Having watched over 200 adaptations of Agatha Christie films (see my book "Agatha Christie, She Watched: One Woman's Plot to Watch 201 Agatha Christie Movies Without Murdering the Director, Screenwriter, Cast, or Her Husband", I can definitively say Hollywood does as it pleases with little care for the source material.
If you want to remain close to the source material, you, dear writer and creator, better have an ironclad contract, have power of your own, and be on the set virtually every day to oversee what's being done to your book from the script writing to the editing room when filming's done.
Decisions get made for all kinds of reasons and the fact that film is a very different medium than print is only the start. Where the money comes from. The director's ego. The writer's ego. The flavor of the month to star. Who's available instead of who's the best acting choice. More money for cast means less money for period sets. What's currently fashionable. Not wanting to repeat what previous film versions did. Wanting to repeat a great idea from a previous film. The list is endless.
Now that we're watching all the International Agathas (assuming we can get them with English subtitles) I'll add cultural differences. The French, Swedes, Indians, South Koreans, Chinese, etc., etc. are NOT ENGLISH. The cultural behavior changes can be radical.
Looking forward to when the modern tools let us do to movies what indy publishing did to books.
Won't that be fun?