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campylobacterWhen someone options your novel, shouldn't you hire a lawyer to make sure you get screenplay approval or edit rights?
Not that TIMELINE is any great work of literature -- but if I were Michael Crichton, I'd be pissed to watch a movie that bears only a passing resemblance to the original story.
Let's see, some characters switched genders, some were invented, academics behaved like hysterical idiots, some were introduced only to get killed two scenes later...
WTF?
I think I'll wash my hands of the whole thing and finish reading Nabokov's BEND SINISTER instead.
Not that TIMELINE is any great work of literature -- but if I were Michael Crichton, I'd be pissed to watch a movie that bears only a passing resemblance to the original story.
Let's see, some characters switched genders, some were invented, academics behaved like hysterical idiots, some were introduced only to get killed two scenes later...
WTF?
I think I'll wash my hands of the whole thing and finish reading Nabokov's BEND SINISTER instead.
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Date: 2003-12-01 09:02 am (UTC)You say this like it's something new and novel. Once upon a time there was a dry but fascinating take on Beowulf about a tiny intellectual from Bagdad, which Crichton wrote on a dare and entitled "The Eaters of the Dead". The prosecution rests, without even mentioning King's poor "Lawnmower Man".
:: shudder ::
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