Failure to Adapt

From the most faithful PnP adaptations to the most treacherous and fickle, Red Scott and Maggie Tokuda-Hall dice up the 2004 Bollywood inspired Bride and Prejudice Directed by Gurinder Chadha along with the Burr Steers Zombie thriller Pride + Prejudice + Zombies. These adaptations take the most chances yet with Jane Austen's source material, did it pay off?

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Fresh off her win at the 2022 Jeopardy Tournament of Champions, Amy Schneider stormed into the Failure to Adapt podcast studio and demanded to talk Jane Austen, and Red Scott and Maggie Tokuda-Hall were happy to oblige her.

When it comes to Pride & Prejudice adaptations, two works sit atop the regency class system: Pride and Prejudice, the 1995 BBC series, and Pride & Prejudice, the 2005 film directed by Joe Wright. But which one is canonically the best??? Listen and find out.

Amy Schneider is the winningest woman in Jeopardy history, the first transgender contestant to win the Tournament of Champions, winner of the 2022 Queerty BADASS award, and a genuinely delightful person.

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Jane Austen Adaptation CONTINUES as Molly Sanchez returns to discuss two Pride & Prejudice adaptions: The Sharon Maguire Directed Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) and the Bernie Su & Margaret Dunlap directed vlog, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries (2012).

Molly is the former co-host of the podcast The Hold Up, as well as Red All Over: A Handmaid's Tale Podcast, along with being an accomplished writer and comic.

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Walt Hickey (creator & writer of numlock.com & Senior Editor for Data at Insider) is not only an insightful and hilarious guest, he is Failure to Adapt's first Pulitzer Prize winning guest. Who better to kick of our SEASON of Jane Austen adaptations?

Walt joins Maggie & Red to discuss Jane Austen's 1813 novel, Pride and Prejudice, and it's adaptation into the 2022 Andrew Ahn film, Fire Island.

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The honeymoon's over, and Hugo Award Winning Author Sarah Gailey (Just Like Home, The Echo Wife, EAT THE RICH) joins Maggie & Red one last time to wait out the 72 hours between giving birth and heading to the most sensual Thomas Kinkade inspired love shack. There was of course, only one way this could ever end: with a teenager betrothed to an infant and a supernatural battle for the ages (or not). They're (finally!) talking the final half of Stephenie Meyer's Breaking Dawn (2008) and its adaptation into the 2012 Bill Condon film, Breaking Dawn: Part 2.

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Hugo award winning author Sarah Gailey (Just Like Home, The Echo Wife, EAT THE RICH) joins this shotgun podcast with Maggie & Red to witness Edward & Bella enter the holy state of Batrimony, before heading to Isle Esme (formerly: The Island of No Innocents Were Murdered Here) and then back to the Cullen homestead for some moderate body horror. They're talking the first half of Stephenie Meyer's Breaking Dawn (2008) and its adaptation into the 2011 Bill Condon film, Breaking Dawn: Part 1.

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Author and Drag Artist Joe Wadlington joins to discuss a graphic novel showed the world a present and future of gay love that a previous generation could only dream of and the show based on it which became a sensation. Joe, Maggie & Red discuss Alice Oseman's graphic novel Heartstopper (2016) as well as the Euros Lyn Directed Netflix series, Heartstopper (2022).

Joe Wadlington has been published in the New Yorker, Architectural Digest, Vox, Food and Wine Magazine, and Catapult. He co-hosts/co-produces "Happy Endings", a live, literary mixtape every 2nd Tuesday at the Make Out Room in San Francisco. As the drag queen, Jubilee, Joe is the reigning "Miss Cowgirl." Joe is currently writing a Young Adult novel about teen witches in the Appalachian Mountains.

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Whether you love a Tom Cruise movie or would rather he die repeatedly on a distant beach, this adaptation's got something for you. Maggie & Red discuss Hiroshi Sakurazaka's All You Need is Kill (2004) and the Doug Liman Directed Edge of Tomorrow (2014).

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A beloved young adult novel is turned into a beloved young adult film, but only one can break the centuries old curse, while the other will meet its end in the dirt surrounded by Yellow-Spotted Lizards. Maggie & Red discuss Louis Sachar's Holes (1998) and it's cinema counterpart, the Shia LaBeouf vehicle Holes (2003).

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Disney sends Assistant Pig Keeper Jeffrey Katzenberg back to the Well with the task of adapting beloved fantasy novels into an animated film, what could possibly go wrong? Chuck Wendig joins Maggie & Red to talk Lloyd Alexander's The Book of Three (1964) and The Black Cauldron (1965) as well as the film that almost killed Disney, 1985's Animated Feature, The Black Cauldron.

Chuck Wendig (terribleminds.com, @ChuckWendig on twitter) is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Star Wars: Aftermath, as well as the Miriam Black thrillers, the Atlanta Burns books, Zer0es/Invasive, Wanderers, as well as his most recent books Dust & Grim and Book of Accidents. Wayward, the sequel to Wanderers is scheduled for publication November 15th.

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