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   On 01/11/2020 4:14 a.m., Charles Pierson : August Abolins wrote:   
      
    CP> ..The author was on the list as   
    CP> well. He mentioned several times over the years of various   
    CP> projects or deals such as possible movie or television   
    CP> adaptations.   
      
   There are quite a few authors who seem to write as if their stories   
   would play out as a movie.  Some are:   
      
   James Patterson   
   Dean Koontz   
   Dan Brown   
      
      
    CP> ..While negotiations were going on, he would   
    CP> never say anything more than he was in talks about a   
    CP> project. Not even what the project was, until negotiations   
    CP> were complete.   
      
   They are often under a do-not-disclose clause.   
      
   Sometimes the author is very particular in having control in the   
   story-line for a film version.   
      
   One recent story I compared between book and film was Diamonds are   
   Forever.  The film is a very radical departure from the original   
   story.  I guess some film directors/screenwriters believe they can   
   improve the original.   
      
      
    CP> The only thing out of all of that I saw over the years was   
    CP> a comic book/graphic novel type adaptation of one of his   
    CP> short stories.   
      
   Is that a quiz?  Who is that author?   
      
      
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