9 Answers2025-07-16
This rumor was always floating around right before the pandemic, and several 'insider' accounts on Twitter would announce the 'end' of RFH, only to never hear from it again for years. It's all part of a cycle to garner attention and discussion, with someone occasionaly bringing up the rumor and starting a 'what if?' thread on Twitter, only for it to die off again with zero new information. I won't believe it until Variety or The Hollywood Reporter writes up a trade announcement.
4 Answers2026-04-15
Ravenswood is kind of like PLL’s goth cousin that was uninvited to the party. Produced by the same people, starred the actor who played Caleb, but was just so, so. The PLL tie-ins were pretty cosmetic. Just a few mentions of the original show, a cameo by Hanna, and that show’s creepy ‘A’-esque stalker. It was an ambitious foray into new storytelling, but unfortunately it fell into the ‘too niche’ category of shows. Watch the Halloween-themed episodes for some context, and then just imagine it as an alternate universe fanfic that’s gone a bit nuts.
9 Answers2025-06-19
Wait a minute, I thought. You can always check an author’s Wikipedia page or official author site, e.g. Nita Prose’s news section, for option announcements and other publisher news. Typically, such deals are promoted by the author’s and publisher’s free marketing efforts. But alas, for now, there’s nothing on the above pages regarding an option for The Maid adaptation. Perhaps such an announcement is in the works but hasn’t yet gone public. I can also set up a Google Alert for “The Maid adaptation”, and receive notifications as the news breaks. But in the meantime, relying on the above cited news from various online forums will drive one absolutely bonkers in short order, since the signal-to-noise ratio is so woefully lacking. (I know from first-hand experience having tracked option announcements for numerous other books and TV projects over the years — much of which ended up being mere "chase-the-shadows" confusion and ado for naught in the end). For now, I just have to be patient and wait for Variety or other major, credible news source to announce such an option deal. Until then, it’s all just hope, or (so far, in this case) alternative, cynical speculation as to how an adaptation of The Maid might play out.
5 Answers2025-08-07
Chemistry of Love could be made into a film and that would be amazing. The book is really unique in that it combines science with romance and the dialogue is already written in a really screen friendly way. I would love for them to cast well and for them to bring the lab scenes to life as well as the rest of the story and its emotional payoff. Here’s hoping they do the book justice.
9 Answers2026-07-26
The 'Expanse' novel series and its TV adaptation are both masterpieces, but they shine in different ways. The books dive deep into the inner thoughts of characters like Holden and Miller, giving us a richer understanding of their motivations. The TV show, on the other hand, excels in visual storytelling—seeing the Rocinante in action or the eerie beauty of the Ring Station adds a layer of immersion the books can’t match. The pacing differs too; the novels take their time to build tension, while the show often condenses plotlines for a more streamlined experience. Both are worth experiencing, but they cater to slightly different tastes.
11 Answers2025-06-26
My two cents would be to stop holding out for a major studio to make a passable adaptation. A small indie production company with a clear vision to tell a quality TV series could end up making something far better on a smaller budget. If they write it well and cast it well, a YouTube released TV series or even a well-produced audio drama would be just as good, if not better. Big budget doesn’t always equal best. A small team of people who really love the books and are making it as a passion project could end up making a more faithful adaptation to the spirit of the work than a big Netflix style produced adaptation that was made by a committee to try and please as many fans as possible. We, as fans, just have to be open to what an adaptation of our favorite book(s) can look like these days. It doesn’t have to be a big, blockbuster style production.
3 Answers2025-07-25
There are many broken books of interest to filmmakers. ‘Pale Fire’ by Vladimir Nabokov is a poetic psychological thriller waiting to be made as a feature film. The rare book is comprised of a long poem followed by a lengthy commentary by an unreliable narrator, similar to that found in the novels by the author of this column.
‘The Silent History’ is another highly interesting work. Written by Eli Horowitz, Matthew Derby and Kevin Moffett, it first appeared as an app-based work presented as a serial of stories mostly set in the same location, each tagged with the Geo-location where they were written. Interesting in itself, it could also be extended as an interactive film, perhaps as a series of short films linked together by a conceptual framework and exploring the intersection of memory and technology – highly relevant to today’s world.
These books have already been turned into film in a pretty groundbreaking way, for Choose Your Own Adventure books the films were interactive and the audience even got to vote on what direction the plot would take in real time, it was really creative and could change the way we experience film and story even more if it were to be done again. Adapting broken books is pretty niche right now but who knows, it could blow up.
6 Answers2025-04-18
They changed the nature of his final error. In the novel, his error is a minor technical ethical breach that has unforeseen consequences, largely due to the prior errors that he had committed and the toxic environment in which he worked. In the TV series, his final error is a major, obvious, illegal act that he is compelled to commit in an extremis situation. The changes to his errors between novel and TV movie transform his character. In the novel, D klient makes a series of gradual concessions to his principles. In the TV movie, D klient makes one big, very silly, very illegal error. It is far more dramatic for purposes of constructing a TV movie, but far more ‘terriifying’ in a realistic sense of how any stressed professional might facilely invent excuses to slip into similar error. The TV movie error feels like a mere plot point for a crime drama.
8 Answers2026-07-27
I get this question all the time from book clubs and it is always a resounding “no, but it should be.” The idea of a historian in a wheelchair trying to reconstruct the doomed marriage of his grandparents in the Old West while suffering in isolation in the 1970s is already made for a prestige miniseries. It would be wonderful to see the cast of characters as older and younger versions. The different time periods and the two vastly different settings (Old West frontier versus isolated 1970s academics) would provide wonderful scope for a great visual script. But the biggest obstacle to this would be framing the story within the story of historian Lyman. As it is, the reader is forced to realize how biased and inaccurate Lyman’s history is, and that would be the lazy way for an adapter to go for a period piece and lose the whole point of the book. Someone with real insight and sensitivity to the work would be required to translate it for the screen. Perhaps, for the best, no one has rushed to adapt this yet. But someone will get to it sooner or later and I hope to heaven they will do it justice.
10 Answers2025-07-19
Marketing this project is going to be tough for the studio because the title “South of Broad” is a theme of the book and does not give any indication of what the story is about. It literally means a geographic location in Charleston but also refers to the social divide between the haves and have nots in that area of the city. A more commercial title might be “The Charleston Circle” or “Kings of Broad” etc. But if that title were to be changed for the purposes of selling tickets then fans of the book would immediately realize that the studio does not get the book. The title is integral to the theme.