bch (04/27/83)
Unfortunately (or fortunately if you prefer) the express reason that Romero and King made "Creepshow" was to earn enough money to bring "The Stand" to the screen. Coming soon to your neighborhood theater...
jss (04/28/83)
I do not agree that the movie of "Satyricon" had "very little to do with the written work[s] on which [they are] based". I felt that Fellini has done a remarkable job in capturing not only the (fragmented) story, but a marvelous sense of fantasy which comes from the very fragmentation. judith
tgd (05/13/83)
Responses to meta-discussion on "The Stand" and screen adaptations in general: The Stand has precious little character development to make up for its lack of substance. I don't consider the use of excruciatingly detailed biographies to intro- duce each character necessary or interesting.(the sledge hammer school of literary symbolism). Try putting that much unnecessary detail on the screen, and you'll have an audience fighting their way to the door to try and catch "Trashdance" (all action and no characterization) instead. Besides, if Richard Gere played one of those parts, he'd ignore the screenplay and just shrug his shoulders meaningfully once or twice to show how sen- sitive and tormented he is. The screenplay to Satyricon is adapted from a short narrative poem in Petronius' text, and not from the "whole fragmented story". I stand (so to speak) by my statement that it has little to do literally with the original. tgd