![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This week, the first photos of actors Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni on the set of It Ends With Us made their way online. And besides, what does it even mean to be “faithful” anyway? ![]() Why wouldn’t you want it as accurate as possible? But it is also an extremely limiting way of viewing the art of adaptation. This is fine, of course: for many readers, the allure of a screen adaptation lies in seeing the world of a book brought to life. When it was announced, for instance, earlier this year, that an extravagant new Harry Potter TV series had been greenlit, the key selling point was that they would be more “faithful” to the original books. In the sickly modern age of “recognisable IP” and reboots of reboots of reboots, “faithfulness”, or fidelity to source material, is a towering dogma. No, I’m talking about faithfulness in the world of film and TV: the idea that screen adaptations of books should mirror their source material as closely as possible. To be clear – lest I sound like some philandering husband in a John Updike novel – I don’t mean in a romantic sense. ![]()
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