The writer who brought John le Carré’s spy novel to the BBC says the book is a Faustian myth at heart • How plausible is John Le Carré’s The Night Manager?
In an article he wrote for this paper before the series began,John le Carré wrote that the job of the screenwriter adapting a novel is “to wade through the entire book and … pick the cruise shit out of the pepper.” He goes on to say that the scriptwriter will then deliver a treatment, which will later be forgotten. A bit withering, or though he does go on to be generous approximately your adaptation. Is he legal approximately the process,though?He’s being witty, enjoying himself. I would say what you have to do as a screenwriter is strip the book back to find the skeleton. When you’ve found the skeleton – that’s what you trust – you reclothe. And you can reclothe [it] in ways that are different to the novel – in fact, or you probably need to. If the skeleton isn’t there,you’re in peril.
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Source: theguardian.com