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‘Fallout’ Producer Jonathan Nolan Wonders ‘Where Are All the Original Stories?’ Amid Rise of TV Adaptations


David Benioff, Jonathan Nolan and D.B. Weiss talk Hollywood's aversion to original storytelling and mounting their own TV series adaptations.

Someone shocked me the other day by saying that ‘Interstellar’ remains one of the highest-grossing original films of the last 10 years, and, to me, that is heartbreaking,” “Fallout” executive producer Jonathan Nolan says of the 2014 space drama that he co-wrote with his brother Christopher. For “3 Body Problem,” Weiss, Benioff and Woo focused on compressing the book’s extremely dense science content and transforming the characters — whether that was by flipping the genders or turning the central figures from strangers to friends. “Shōgun” creators Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks had their own distinct challenge: Adapting James Clavell’s 1975 novel, about an Englishman in 17th century feudal Japan, that was previously turned into an extremely popular and Emmy-winning 1980 miniseries.

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