I believe you are correct. The novels were unique and made a lasting impression, particularly involving death and the collection of souls (remember the darkening effect on the soul's appearance by sin?) Hollywood is a collection of amazing talent, but it is also a collection of absolutely reprobate thieves, the worst being the writers and producers. I personally have been ripped off blatantly but being outside California and not connected, I had little recourse. It was amazing and instructive to have my manager read to me almost verbatim a screenplay synopsis I wrote that was being circulated in a minutely modified form as representative of a competing screenplay. In other words, a synopsis filched for someone else's screenplay which, it turned out, hadn't even been written yet--unlike mine that was complete and an authorized novel adaptation to boot. My manager stopped answering my calls and a certain big Prodco financed a deal based on a stolen synopsis and the buddy system they have. Screenwriter experts love telling rubes that, accurately, an idea can not--the same applies to a title--be copyrighted. But the synopsis had been carefully presented to several seemingly legit producers and...so on. What hurts is that the motion picture that resulted was a pale shade and a hokey modernization of what should have been: the true-to-character death struggle between a classic literary cult hero and a notoriously infamous villain.
But what can you expect from the state that plans to legislate cow farts in order to save the planet from global warming?
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