i feel the only way to get the direct vision of the author in a film, is to have that author adapt their own work like Dito Monteil did.
Are there any other authors who have done that?
lorenzo carcaterra did sleepers.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0117665/
Are you serious? Happens all the time. Here's just a couple...
Fannie Flagg, “Fried Green Tomatoes”
John Irving, “The Cider House Rules”
Lorraine Hansberry, “A Raisin in the Sun”
Mario Puzo, “The Godfather”
Anne Rice, “Interview with the Vampire”
Eliot Baker, “A Fine Madness”
Larry McMurtry, “The Last Picture Show”
Dalton Trumbo, “Johnny Got His Gun”
Sherman Alexie, “Smoke Signals”
William Goldman, “The Princess Bride”; “Marathon Man”; “Magic”
Erich Segal, “Oliver’s Story”
Michael Crichton, “The Great Train Robbery”
Elmore Leonard, “Stick”; “52 Pick-Up”; “The Moonshine War”
Carrie Fisher, “Postcards from the Edge”
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, “Heat and Dust”
Louis Sachar, “Holes”
Peter Hedges, “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape”
Cameron Crowe, “Fast Times at Ridgemont High”
Whitley Streiber, “Communion”
Edward Bunker, “The Animal Factory”
David Benioff, “25th Hour”
William Peter Blatty, “The Exorcist”
Joseph Wambaugh, “The Onion Field”; “The Black Marble”
"My brain rebelled, and insisted on applying logic where it was not welcome."share
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Paul Aster didnt direct nor screenwrite any of his novels, but Edgar Wallace did with "The Squeaker" and Michael Crichton did with "The First Great Train Robbery".
Neither are as popular (at least from my stand point) as this film.
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