I wrote to Tom Wolfe once, after he published Bonfire of the Vanities , and he never wrote back. But Tom Wolfe owes me a letter. I'm friendly with the producer, Mace Neufeld, and with other people at Paramount who made the movie, and they invited my opinion of the screenplay, which I gave them. But other than that, I had no involvement in the movie, nor did I want any. It was more true to the book than a lot of movies.
Motion pictures are a different form of entertainment.
For one thing, a book can take twenty hours to read, but a movie usually runs an hour and a half. So, the movie has to be more interpretive, more visual, and faster paced. See my Feature Films section. I collaborated on a screenplay to Word of Honor , which has not yet been produced. I don't think I'd write another screenplay based on one of my novels, or anyone's novel.