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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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.
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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This makes it muuuuch easier to sell the next book to them
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Also, as a writer, there's nothing I love more than someone fundamentally GETTING what I was going for. A faithful film adaptation is high praise
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well sure but this is part of a complex bundled good, the film, and it is probably more important that the film be good. the very existence of these hypothetical offended readers is endogenous to whether the film is good.
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Well I think that kind of implies that there's a choice to be made between making a good film and a faithful film. I think these variables are not massively related
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