Audiobook Café

Adaptations: Books vs. Movies

Episode Summary

Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” has host Jacob Shymanski thinking about book adaptations. He chats with Red Széll from the “My Life in Books” podcast about the characteristics that allow for a good adaptation of a book into another medium. They also debate whether a book always trumps its adapted film or TV show.

Episode Notes

Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” has host Jacob Shymanski thinking about book adaptations.

He chats with Red Széll from the “My Life in Books” podcast about the characteristics that allow for a good adaptation of a book into another medium.  

They also debate whether a book always trumps its adapted film or TV show.