Totally random thought that popped into my mind last night: Why do we have so many "books-to-movie" adaptations but no "movies-into-books" cases? Here's an all too familiar scenario: Very well written novel that gets rave reviews gets a movie adaption in which the movie completely butchers the novel. (Admittedly, this is not 100% true--The Hunger Games and Ender's Game turned out to be awesome!)
Now think about this: what if authors took on the job of movie makers and attempted to turn a beloved movie (like "Remember the Titans" or "Titanic") into a novel? Would the book be as good as the movie or will the movie critics be all over the authors for messing up the plot, characters, etc? As a book nerd and a friend to many other book nerds, I've seen and participated in my own fair share of complaining about bad movie adaptions, but are we being too harsh? If the movie makers and authors had to swap roles, would the authors be up to the task of turning script into paragraphs?
