![]() Yet, there are some works and authors that have fans who are frankly confused as to why they were never given the Hollywood treatment. ![]() There are several reasons why novels are not adapted: the author is a recluse who refuses to let anyone touch their work, they’re too dated to be entertaining for modern audiences, or they’re just plain unfilmable (stream-of-consciousness never seems to work for audiences, though the film version of American Psycho improved upon the verbal diarrhea that was Bret Easton Ellis’ novel and turned Patrick Bateman’s inner violence into a thoroughly engaging movie) to name a few. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye, Terry Gilliam’s Don Quixote, and David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. Yet, there are plenty of famous novels and writers that have never seen the light of day on the silver screen, such as J.D. With all that literary presence in Hollywood, it would seem that just about any novel or non-fiction work is ripe for the big screen. Over the last 20 years, over 50% of Hollywood films have been adaptations and for the last decade, adaptations have outweighed the number of original screenplays in our movie theaters, according to writer and producer Stephen Follows. ![]() ![]() Since Sherlock Holmes first stepped foot on the silver screen in 1900, literature has been a major source, if not the main source, of Hollywood features. Movies and books have had a tense and complicated relationship over the last 100 or so years. ![]()
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