Scanners (1981) , II & III

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Originally Posted by movielib

The Keep was based on a book I think is the best horror novel I have ever read. The movie is an absolute disaster, IMO. The author of the book, F Paul Wilson, was so upset with the film that he wrote Cuts, a short story where a writer got revenge on the director that had ruined his story. The director was unsubtly named Milo Ghirl.

If there is a director's cut we have never seen I'd like to see it although it's hard to see how there's any way it could be saved.

I thought the same about the book and then the movie when I first saw it. Second viewing changed my mind as I could see the merits of Mann's film, and viewed it as a seperate entity. Even a mighty film such as Blade Runner is vastly different to the source material. Also, my understanding was that Wilson has since relaxed his opinion on the film - after adapting his own work into graphic novel form, and realising just how difficult it can be, to heavily streamline a lengthy book.

Edit: Sometimes I wonder about author's opinions of adapted work. The classic one is King complaining about The Shining - after the disaster that was Maximum Overdrive, I think King lost the right to be snooty or critical of other people's films.