Newsletter # 12 – CLASSIC

Does adapting a classic author mean shooting yourself in the foot?

We may ask what motivates so many filmmakers to adapt famous novels and classic authors, given the common risk of disappointing readers and cinephiles.

At Best-seller to Box-office, we believe that the problem of  adaptating a novel by a famous author or a literary classic to film is a false problem. To all of those who conclude the superiority of the writer over the filmmaker when comparing a literary masterpiece to its mediocre cinematographicadaptation, we must oppose the long list of cinematic masterpieces based on mediocre literary works,  starting with  Kubrick‘s Barry Lyndon, far superior  to Thackeray‘s memoirs.  There are artists great and small in cinema, just as there are in literature, painting or music. Isn‘t Chaplin the Molière of the 20th century?

This week we are presenting you with both completed and incomplete texts that have sometimes never been published, or have been forgotten or are out of circulation, of authors that you all know but who we hope you will enjoy rediscovering. With, we hope, some nice surprises at hand…


The newsletter # 12 focuses on :

- Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf

- Dark Island, by Vita Sackville-West

- The Narrative Of John Smith, by Conan Doyle

- Decline And Fall Of Just About Everybody, by Will Cuppy

- Melmoth The Wanderer, by Charles Maturin

- Uncle Silas, by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

- Romola, by George Eliot

- Der Fromme Tanz (The Pious Dance), by Klaus Mann

- The Minister’s Black Veil, by Nathanael Hawthorne

- The Hair Trunk or The Ideal Commonwealth, by Robert Louis Stevenson.


As every week, find also the list of the films rights purchased or in process of sale ; the books to keep an eye on ; and the focus on a new film, book or artist (this week : Green Lantern, a superhero 3D film released on June 17, 2011 based on the DC Comics character of the same name).


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