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George R.R. Martin Doubles Down on Issues With Screenwriters Making Adaptations Their Own: ‘999 Times Out of 1,000 They Make It Worse’
George R.R. Martin is tired of Hollywood screenwriters not being faithful to source material and making them worse in the process.
Martin recently took to his personal blog to double down on his issue with Hollywood adaptations and screenwriters’ attempts to make source material their own. Martin previously spoke out on this issue in 2022 during a discussion with fellow author Neil Gaiman in which he lamented over the majority of writers in Hollywood thinking they do not need to be faithful to written works they’re adapting for film or television. Everywhere you look, there are more screenwriters and producers eager to take great stories and ‘make them their own.’ It does not seem to matter whether the source material was written by Stan Lee, Charles Dickens, Ian Fleming, Roald Dahl, Ursula K. Le Guin, J.R.R.
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