The thing which struck me about The Martian was that the film is an extremely faithful adaptation of the book. As were The Hunger Games and The Social Network
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This wasn't always the case. Time was, a director would get bored less than a hundred pages into your book and then make the rest up
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This is a really good thing from the perspective of book authors about to get film deals. Of course it says nothing about film quality or book quality
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This trend towards more faithful adaptations may connote increased respect by film and television creators for book readers as a group. That's probably a positive?
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They don't stand a chance with Consider Phlebas. It's not even a good Culture book (it's the worst Culture book)
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What do you mean it's not practical to adapt a story about things which are invisible and which nobody can remember clearly What do you mean you already made that movie and paid me and I don't remember
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Is it actually good for book authors? I'd agree they probably prefer it, but (remaining agnostic on the quality outlook) they might be wrong about what is good for them.
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I think book authors generally like it if people who watch the film first, when they read the book, don't react with "What the heck, this is completely alien to me" and stop reading
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It's less common, but slavish and mechanical adaptations of the text can also be problematic. But it usually takes a good screenwriting and directing team to change things for the better.
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That's one of the things which impresses me, when they're brutal with the editing to get it down to two hours but still retain the spirit of the original
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