ABOUT THIS EPISODE
What happens when your favourite book makes it to the screen? And what happens when Hollywood gets it spectacularly wrong?
This week on Shelf Indulgence, we're talking book-to-screen adaptations: the casting choices that leave us questioning everything, the plot changes that make us wonder whether the people behind the adaptation actually read the book, and the stories that deserve a little more time to breathe.
From The Love Hypothesis to The Seven Year Slip, we're getting into the books we'd love to see adapted, the stories that might work better as TV shows than films, and why some changes make perfect sense while others feel like a personal attack on our favourite characters.
I'm also getting personal about a couple of adaptations that have stuck with me for all the wrong reasons. Because apparently, I have a LOT of feelings about this topic. (This episode was supposed to be 20 minutes. It is very much not 20 minutes.)
Whether you're someone who needs every detail to match the book or you're happy to let an adaptation do its own thing, there's plenty to unpack.
The big question: does an adaptation need to be faithful to the book, or does it just need to be good?
Let's talk about it.
Welcome to Adaptation Nation.
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