Welcome, readers. We are so excited to continue this new content from the creators of Currently Reading Podcast! This spin-off podcast series will tackle book to screen adaptations in a spoiler-FILLED format. Be sure you’ve read the book and watched the film version before listening to the episode, because we don’t shy away from strong opinions OR from all the spoilers, unlike our regular episodes.

 

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I Remember You by Yrsa Sigurdardottir

 

1:29 - Previews

Book Name and release date. Sales info and awards.

I Remember You by Yrsa Sigurdardottir

Glass Key Awards

 

Movie name and release date. Box office and awards.

Edda Awards

 

7:34 - The Cutting Room

Pivotal Book scenes and how they translated to the screen

The building falling

The finding of the body underneath the crawlspace

 

Changes from Book to Movie

The Trio Bringing Benni to Hysteri

Timelines do not line up

Removal of plot points in movie, like an affair and accident for one character

Vandalized church in movie, primary school in book

Renovating vs redecorating

Outcome of Lif and Garðar  

Additional drama around pregnancies in the movie

 

Left out of the adaptation

Changes in Lif’s life

Explanations of the house or why it was purchased

Putti the dog

Dead brother

Lif’s entire life changes

The title itself is confusing

 

Added to the movie

Modernized the story - electricity, generators, etc.

 

Casting and alternates

Freyr: Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson → Carl Urban, Alan Ritchson, Tom Hardy

Dagny: Sara Dögg Ásgeirsdóttir → Toni Collette, Judy Greer, Dakota Johnson

Katrin: Anna Gunndís Guðmundsdóttir → Maya Hawke, Jenna Ortega, Aubrey Plaza

Lif: Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir →  Fanning sisters Dakota and Elle, Chloe Grace Moretz,Sydney Sweeney

Garðar: Thorvaldur Kristjansson → Jeremy Allen White, Glen Powell,

 

Problematic elements

Lack of diversity

Leaving Sarah to suffer in her own “crazy”

 

35:38 - Award Season

Worst and best parts of the adaptation.

Katrin’s fate

Should have been scarier

The soundtrack or lack thereof

The sense of place

 

Worst and best actors.

Lif

Freyr

 

Worst and best book characters.

Lif

Bernodus’s Dad

Putti the dog

Dagny

 

47:57 - Book/Flick Energy

Book scored on a 5 star scale.

Book on Goodreads

 

Series scored on a 10 point scale.

Movie on Rotten Tomatoes

Movie on IMDB

 

53:58 - A Leftover Popcorn Kernel

Do you believe in ghosts and have you ever had anything supernatural happen to you?

 

What would make an Airbnb scary enough for you to leave in the middle of the night?

 

1:00:33 - End Credits

Erasure by Percival Everett

American Fiction is available on Amazon Prime

 

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