The short answer is no.
The longer answer is Berkson’s Paradox/Fallacy applies.
The even longer answer is explained in this video from Hannah Fry and Numberphile:
Comparing the book to the movie has been a long-standing blog topic of mine, which made this maths video pretty cool*. I’ve since developed a category list that relates to what Hannah discussed in the video about what gets made into movies.
- It is very unlikely that your novel will be published.
- It is very unlikely that your published novel will be optioned to be made into a movie (or TV show).
- It is very unlikely that the movie adaptation will actually be made.
- Most movies are average, so it is very unlikely that the movie adaptation will be above average.
- If the movie is above average, it is very unlikely that the movie will bear any resemblance to the book it was adapted from.
- Pointless arguments will ensue from the previous two points.
The Metacritic vs Goodreads analysis mentioned in the video is interesting and worth a read.
*As always, I’m working from a definition of cool that includes the nerdy stuff I like.**
**Did you know that cool has always been cool?***

*** Well, unless you use Ngram Viewer to check Google Books for word usage over time like some sort of nerd…
I have had a long-standing debate with my fiancee about movie and books. Let’s be honest, even mediocre books are better as books. I love books, movies not so much. I like original movies that are not from books. I don’t like stolen ideas.
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It is hard to look at 10-20 hours of entertainment and say, “Yeah, I can turn that into 2 hours” without losing anything. And that’s without the limitations of the two mediums causing issues with adaptation.
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Adaptations typically do not follow the book. The cast is bad, the script is worse, and the setting, terrible. I loathed all the Stephen King movies. I will NEVER watch the Gunslinger because I’ve read it and I know the movie absolutely abandons the book in every way. I’ve been disappointed more times than not.
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I started this series of Book vs Movie because I had read The Bourne Identity and watched the movie, and wondered why they bothered paying for the rights.
I can’t remember which post I discussed it in, but apparently screenwriters brought on to do adaptations are often given very little time to produce a draft. So they literally don’t read the book and may not have anything other than the studio notes to work from.
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That’s unfortunate. They would have a better movie if they read the books.
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Yeah, I don’t understand it either.
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