Monday 14 December 2020

Roseland

I think that any screen adaptation of a novel should be a serial.

Ian Fleming, From Russia, With Love (London, 1964):

PART ONE: THE PLAN, pp. 7-77.
CHAPTERs 1-10, about Bond's enemies in Russia.
 
PART TWO: THE EXECUTION, pp. 78-208.
CHAPTERs 11-28, beginning with Bond waking up and ending with his apparent death above the words, "THE END"
 
CHAPTER 1, "ROSELAND," CHAPTER 2, "THE SLAUGHTERER," and CHAPTER 3, "POST-GRADUATE STUDIES," summarize the life and career of Donovan Grant, Chief Executioner of SMERSH, and would make a good film, "Roseland," to precede dramatizations of subsequent chapters.