Failure to Adapt

When it's time to talk about the Phillip Pullman novel The Golden Compass (1995) and the corresponding Chris Weitz film The Golden Compass (2007), you find a guest with more than one tattoo inspired by His Dark Materials, and that's where author and podcaster Mallory O'Meara comes in.

Mallory O'Meara is most recently the author of Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol, as well as the LA Times Bestseller The Lady From The Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick. She also hosts the literary podcast Reading Glasses with filmmaker and writer Brea Grant.

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The 1989 animated Disney film The Little Mermaid is known the world over as the beginning of The Disney Renaissance, but how many of us have read the Hans Christian Anderson The Little Mermaid (1837) on which it's based? And more importantly, which one is superior??? Maggie Tokuda-Hall & Red Scott negotiated a straightforward contract with an ambitious business woman that allowed them to dive in and investigate.

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As Dev Patel is a snack and genius author Annalee Newitz just happened to have done their senior thesis on courtly love in the 14th century poem "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", Maggie Tokuda-Hall & Red Scott were ecstatic to have them on to discuss the poem's adaptation into The Green Knight (2021), directed by David Lowery.

Annalee Newitz is most recently the author of Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age, as well as being an incredible Science Fiction Author, Lambda Literary Award Winner, and a writer for most publications you've heard of, including the NY Times. Fans of Failure to Adapt will also appreciate Annalee's podcast Our Opinions Are Correct with co-host Charlie Jane Anders.

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall's & Red Scott have been stranded and are completely unable to communicate with NASA, so they're covering their first blog-to-book-to-Movie adaptation with Andy Weir's The Martian (2011) and the Ridley Scott / Matt Damon vehicle The Martian (2015). Unlike Andy Weir'd protagonist, Red & Maggie have Big Feelings about this one.

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Twilight, Again. Failure to Adapt's first return guest, Hugo award winning author Sarah Gailey (EAT THE RICH, The Echo Wife, River of Teeth) wore her finest Jorts to ask "Who let the dogs out?". Maggie Tokuda-Hall's & Red Scott's follow Sarah's lead into the world of the Stephenie Meyer novel New Moon (2006) and the corresponding Chris Weitz film The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009).

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Some resources on the Quileute's treatment in Twilight:

• Twilight's Quileute Controversy Explained by Cathal Gunning
• The Truth Versus Twilight by Dr. Deana Dartt-Newton
• Sucking the Quileute Dry by Angela R. Riley

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One of Maggie Tokuda-Hall's favorite and most formative books is Neil Gaiman's 1999 fantasy novel Stardust, and one of Red Scott's absolute favorite films is the Matthew Vaughn directed 2007 romantic fantasy adventure film, Stardust. This podcast contains evaluation, dissection, and ultimately the definitive and conclusive judgement as to which one is the superior work.

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The Locus Award Winning, Perfect and Prolific Author & Essayist Meg Elison (Find Layla, Big Girl, The Book of The Unnamed Midwife, etc…) agreed to join Maggie Tokuda-Hall & Red Scott to discuss absolutely any adaptation, as long as it was the Thomas Harris novel The Silence of the Lambs (1988) and the Jonathan Demme film, The Silence of the Lambs (1991).

Keep up with Meg on twitter at @megelison and her website megelison.com

Some resources related to the transphobia in film and in The Silence of The Lambs in particular:

• The Jo Moses's essay Should we still be protesting "The Silence of the Lambs?"
• Jos Truitt's essay My Auntie Buffalo Bill: The Unavoidable Transmisogyny of Silence of the Lambs
• ContraPoints's video J.K. Rowling
• Laverne Cox's documentary Disclosure

At one point, Meg & Maggie spontaneously burst into Marcia Belsky's 100 Tampons

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When someone suggests the book is always better than the movie, there is one exception that's near universal: Jurassic Park. Maggie Tokuda-Hall & Red Scott talk the adaptation of the movie that taught most of us what lawyers are actually good for (Dino protein!). Specifically, they discuss the Michael Chrichton novel Jurassic Park (1990) and its transformation into the Steven Spielberg film Jurassic Park (1993).

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Hugo award winning author Sarah Gailey (EAT THE RICH, The Echo Wife, River of Teeth) joins hosts Maggie Tokuda-Hall & Red Scott to talk the adaptation of the ultimate May (1901) – December romance. Specifically, they discuss the Stephenie Meyer novel Twilight (2005) and the corresponding Catherine Hardwicke film Twilight (2008). How did they come to pass? Which one is better? Why are they doing this to themselves???

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Welcome to Failure to Adapt! Hosted by author Maggie Tokuda-Hall and comedian Red Scott, Failure to Adapt discusses media that moves from one form to another! Whether it's Stephen King books becoming Steven Spielberg movies, Fairy Tales loosely inspiring animated Disney musicals, or People transmuting into Wolves, this is the podcast with the conviction and insight to determine a story's correct form.

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