391: Book to Movie/TV Adaptations

The Popcast With Knox and Jamie

Knox McCoy and Jamie Golden

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4.8 • 6.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we discuss book adaptations: the good, the bad, the should, and the please don’t. Whether you believe the book is always better than the film or if you prefer to watch the movie before reading the source material (like Jamie and Harry Potter), this conversation will give you plenty to add to your movie queue and must-reads list.

MENTIONS

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Cruella trailer | book: The One Hundred And One Dalmatians (1956)
Fact check: Stephen King hated Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining
Side road: Jurassic Park- 7 Difference Between The Book And The Movie
The Great Gatsby: book | movie (2013)
High Fidelity: book | movie | tv series
The Lovely Bones: book | movie
Annihilation: book | movie
No Country For Old Men: book | movie
Soundtracks and scores that elevate adaptations: Memoirs of a Geisha | Into the Wild | The Social Network | Gone Girl | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Friday Night Lights: book | movie | tv series
Big Little Lies: book | tv series
Watchmen: book series | movie | tv series
Things we want to be movies: A Confederacy of Dunces | A Separate Peace | The Secret History | The Fortunate Ones | American Wife | Greek Mythology Cinematic Universe | One Hundred Years of Solitude | Their Eyes Were Watching God | a gritty Where’s Waldo
President portrayals: Billy Bob Torton in Love Actually | John Travolta in True Colors
Books we don’t want to be adapted: The Night Circus | Girl, [series] | Paradise Lost | Love You Forever | Catcher in the Rye
Odds and Ends: Glynnon Doyle memoir to be adapted for a tv series | Rosanne Barr “sings” the national anthem (risky click of the day)
Look at all our green light books! Many of these are being adapted, which just proves we have incredible taste in books, you guys.

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GREEN LIGHTS

Mutual - Nomadland: book | movie (Hulu)
Jamie – The Black Church : book | tv series (PBS)
Knox – Flora and Ulysses: book | movie (Disney+)

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Transcript

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0:00.0	And I know a lot of you blonde white women go mad about this, but eat pre-love
0:05.1	It was a good book. It should not have been a film. I just don't need to see Julie Roberts want to make love to a pizza
0:10.0	I just don't need to do that. You've never wanted to make love to a pizza. Of course. I've wanted to make love to a pizza. Every Friday night. I want to make love to a pizza
0:24.1	Hello, welcome to episode number 391 of the podcast. I'm one of your host knocks for Koi
0:28.4	And I'm your other host Jamie Golden. Popcast is a show dedicated to delightful
0:32.1	ABC. We're committed to educating you on the things entertained do not matter
0:35.2	If I'm not more about these literary proceeds check us out at knocks and Jamie.com
0:39.5	And you can also find us on Instagram and Facebook at popcast and we're on Twitter at popcast.com guys
0:44.8	Thanks for joining us this week as we are going to be talking book to screen adaptations
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1:22.6	All right
1:24.6	Jamie let's talk book to screen adaptations. I'm really excited about this you know
1:27.9	We were in the office and we were talking about that Kruela trailer that we saw this week. We were with them soon
1:34.2	Were you still about that?
1:35.9	Honestly, yeah, this is a safe space. Yeah, this is a safe space. Trust tree. Trust tree. I was a little attracted to them
1:41.4	So in that trailer. I know I thought that was going in a different direction. You and I both did but I was like all right
1:46.8	Oh, what kind of it is it that you're attracted to? Just the chaos
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