Andrew Bailey wrote: > > Casey Rousseau wrote: > > David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > > > > > >>The general problem is that a novel is simply too big a story > >>to make into a movie. It doesn't fit. > >> > >>The specific problem is that so much of what goes on in the > >>Vlad books is internal. That's hard to handle in a movie. > > > > > > A more general problem is that, one is a book and the other is a movie. > > Basically the different mediums have different strengths and advantages. > > Take for instance, LotR. This is quite a reasonable adaption. But I was so looking forward to the musical version :-)