THE PREPOSTEROUS BOLLOX OF THE SITUATION

“Hollywood has always played fast and loose with books – risking the author’s wrath by changing plot and characters wholesale. Joe Dunthorne looks back on some memorable film cheats…”

“With the Evil Dead remake on the way, Ryan looks back over the unholy history of its forbidden volume, the Necronomicon…”

“We’ve risked some money on this film, and a lot of people have risked a lot of time and effort on it. I wouldn’t be honest if I didn’t say that there were nights where I would lay awake wondering if I had made a gigantic mistake doing this thing. But the beauty of it, now that it’s done, and the book is even more successful, I think audiences will accept it. And one more thing — I think the mainstream studio bigvshots, if you will, really don’t take their audience very seriously. I really think that folks are out there who are eager to try something different. And take a little risk with a movie…”

“How could a film made on a low budget with a respected scriptwriter with a clear grasp of the material and not one, but three of the best character actors working today in the three main roles take so little money? Why did it fail? Who killed Judge Dredd? Let’s look at the evidence…”

“I gotta say though, I really wish this could just be one movie, a more tight and complete experience than LORD OF THE RINGS, the one you can watch when you’re in a hobbity mood but don’t want to dedicate your whole damn week to watching it. I mean if you really want to go overboard then make two I guess, but if you’re tellin me I gotta wait a year just to see the middle of this story, there better be a big payoff. But I know there’s not, because this is The Hobbit, it’s about a guy meets some dwarfs and a Gollum and then talks to a dragon. It’s not supposed to be LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. Which, by the way, was one movie…”