Sep 262005
One of my favorite novels of the last ten years, The Sparrow, is getting the screenplay treatment. While part of me would love to see a film version of the story, the book is thematically complex and I’m not sure it would translate well. My hunch is that the Hollywood types are drawn to the book’s aliens and spaceships and think they might have another War of the Worlds on their hands.
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But then again, War of the Worlds didn’t have the protagonist being anally raped by the aliens. I’d like to see how the screenwriter handles that little detail from the book.
