When adapting a book, screenwriters have some horror stories

'The better the book, the harder it's going to be to find a cinematic equivalent. ..' > "BLINDNESS," Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago's 1997 allegorical novel about an epidemic of sightlessness that threatens to destroy society, is told in a stream-of-consciousness style that reads like a fever dream. Not exactly " Harry Potter," straight-to-the-big-screen material. (link)