I really must insist that it would be impossible for Apted or anyone else to screen VDT to match either the book exactly or the BBC productions because of copyright regulations which force him to put into this particular interpretation a small percentage of original content of his own. Something like 5 or 10%, I think it might be This is the law on Intellectual content! Apted and all his film cast and crew, including the script writer, has to obey it. And for the information of those who haven't thought of this possibility whilst they criticize a movie they haven't seen yet, that particular USA law is not all that different from other Western countries, in Australia, or UK, at any rate.

That's simply not true.

That might be the case if Walden had not purchased the rights to make the movie. But they did. They own the rights to make the book into a movie.

If what you are saying was true, Zack Snyder (Director, "Watchmen") would be in a lot of trouble for making a very faithful adaptation.

I am closing this thread until the GMD forum mods have time to review it, or until fantasia can look at it.

I am alarmed at the degree of hysteria, rudeness, and blatant fan fiction.

Most of the people responsible for it know better too.

Coracle