![]() ![]() ![]() Andrew Davies, the British screenwriter who has built a successful and respected career adapting classics, from “Bleak House” and “Middlemarch” to “Pride and Prejudice” and “War & Peace,” is taking on Updike’s Rabbit Angstrom novels. So this may be the beginning of a new understanding of Updike - triggered by the Brits. Perhaps Hollywood is aware of the truism that second-rate books make first-rate movies and first-rate books make second-rate movies. Perhaps his fiction doesn’t contain enough action, or it’s too interior, or too subtle. It’s remarkable that such a prolific and popular American novelist and short-story writer - he published “some 21 novels” and 18 story collections, according to Wikipedia - has inspired so few films and series. “The Witches of Eastwick” was brought to TV and the movies, and “Rabbit, Run” was turned into a movie in 1970. There haven’t been many adaptations of John Updike’s fiction over the years. ![]()
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