VANISHING ACT HOW THE COCREATOR OF HBO'S THE LEFTOVERS TRANSFORMED HIS NOVEL INTO AN EPIC TV DRAMA

摘要

I've had unusual luck with adaptations of my novels. With Election, I handed my manuscript over to director Alexander Payne and he made this amazing movie-true to the book but with a heightened sarnie sensibility. I realry loved the film that Todd Field made of Little Children; it's darker than my novel, but it's erotically charged, morally provocative, and packs a real dramatic punch. Still, turning a novel into a film can be limiting-forcing a big, complex story into a small box. And watching all the great TV over the past 10 years, I started to think, wouldn't it be fantastic to have a bigger box? The Leftovers was my first opportunity to venture into long-form television, and I was lucky enough to have Damon Lindelof, co-creator of Lost, as a partner.