>And, a successful novel is already 'tested' on the audience - the story in >itself has proved to be appreciated, and one possible reason of box office >failiure is thus eliminated. I guess this is the main reason for all the >recent >adaptions of comic books. BTW, I doubt that it's cheaper to buy the rights to >Crichton's novels than getting a completely original script...:-) You're so right, Ulf. Spielberg payed Crichton five-hundred thou to have him write an unusable script for _JURASSIC_, over and above the cool million he payed for the rights. He went through two more scriptwriters, who had to work from storyboard artists' comic-book adaptation rather than from Crichton's original text. He blew his budget on special effect scenes, which had to be used, long before the final draft. David Smith (902)454-3087 [log in to unmask] "Multimedia Design Studio"-- http://www.isisnet.com/dsmith/index.html ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]