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Are Literary Book To Film Adaptations In Decline?

First Posted: 06/07/10 11:08 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 05:40 PM ET

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As the adult-skewing drama becomes an endangered species at the studios, is there any hope for that venerable subcategory, the literary-book-to-screen adaptation?

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As the adult-skewing drama becomes an endangered species at the studios, is there any hope for that venerable subcategory, the literary-book-to-screen adaptation?...
As the adult-skewing drama becomes an endangered species at the studios, is there any hope for that venerable subcategory, the literary-book-to-screen adaptation?...
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12:30 AM on 06/08/2010
No, there's no hope. Authors don't crash enough cars.
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