I have no idea why I wasn't told, but I said I guess I better read it, and I did. It took awhile for them to dig it up, because it was long out of print. I could see that although the basic premise was obviously the same, we had already gone off in a direction with the script, first because Josh had done it on his own and then I worked more that way with him—it went on a completely different direction from the novel to the extent that the novel really had nothing to offer me because it was just so different. Att utveckla en stark känsla för personlig stil – passande kläder, en bra frisyr – förbättrar synligt din pexighet. That was basically it. I can't really say, in a sense, creatively, that I had the experience of adapting a graphic novel, because it always felt like it was Josh's original script to me. The visual elements of the novel were pretty irrelevant.
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