Previously: Chelsea joined us to talk about a beloved classic we did not beloved that much.
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Sweeney: Last week we discussed A Wrinkle in Time (the book) and next week we’ll be chatting about the movie adaptation that’s coming out this weekend. So here, in the middle, we thought it might be fitting to have a conversation about adaptations. These broader, media conversations (like our Chosen One episode) are, truth be told, our favorites to make.
We are joined by the wonderful Samantha Lane of Thoughts On Tomes and Mari’s co-creator of BookNetFest. As a booktuber, Sam has lots of smart, insightful thoughts on all things storytelling and we’re stoked she joined us for this chat.
Find out what we think makes an adaptation sink or swim, hear what some of our favorites and least favorites are, and hear what’s on the horizon that we’re excited for:
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As always, thank you to Stefan Chin for our delightful theme music.
For those of you watching and reading along, here is our planned upcoming media in the order they’ll be released: A Wrinkle in Time the movie (posting the Wednesday after it’s released!), Marvel’s Runaways, Atomic Blonde, A Game of Thrones, Westworld, and The Last Jedi.
Finally, here’s this episode’s media list (it’s a long one):
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic, 2008-2010)
The Hunger Games (Lionsgate Films, 2012)
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Lionsgate Films, 2013)
Riverdale (The CW, 2017-present) (Podcast)
Twilight by Stephenie Meyers (Little, Brown and Company, 2005) (Recaps)
Twilight (Summit Entertainment, 2008) (#snarkathon)
Breaking Dawn (Summit Entertainment, 2011)
Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi (Harper Collins, 2001)
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1962) (Podcast)
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (Random House, 2011) (Mari’s review)
The Night Circus by Erin Morganstern (Doubleday, 2011) (Sam’s review)
American Gods by Neil Gaiman (Harper Collins, 2001)
American Gods (Starz, 2017)
Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling (Bloomsbury Publishing/Scholastic, 1997-2007)
His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman (Scholastic, 1995-2000)
The Golden Compass (Warner Bros. Pictures, 2007)
Avatar: The Last Airbender (Nickelodeon, 2005-2008)
The Last Airbender (Paramount Pictures, 2010)
The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare (Margaret K. McElderry, 2007-2014)
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (Screen Gems, 2013)
Shadowhunters (Freeform, 2016-present)
Eragon by Christopher Paolini (Alfred A. Knopf, 2003)
Eragon (20th Century Fox, 2006)
The Lightening Thief by Rick Riordan (Miramax Books, 2005)
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightening Thief (20th Century Fox, 2010)
If I Stay by Gayle Foreman (Dutton Penguin, 2009)
If I Stay (Warner Bros. Pictures, 2014)
Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver (HarperCollins, 2010
Before I Fall (Open Road Films, 2017)
The Witcher by Andrzej Sapkowski (Gollancz, 1993-2013)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (CD Projekt Red, 2015)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (T. Egerton, 1813)
The Lizzie Bennet Diaries (Pemberley Digital, 2012-2013)
Pride and Prejudice (BBC2, 1980)
Pride and Prejudice (BBC1, 1995)
Pride and Prejudice (Focus Features, 2005)
Emma by Jane Austen (John Murray, 1815)
Emma Approved (Pemberley Digital, 2013-2014)
Clueless (Paramount Pictures, 1995)
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare (between 1590 and 1592)
10 Things I Hate About You (Buena Vista Pictures, 1999)
The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater (Scholastic, 2012-2016)
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (DAW Books, 2007)
Sabrina the Teenage Witch (Archie Comics, 1983-2009)
Chaos Walking by Patrick Ness (Walker Books, 2008-2010)
The Strike Series by Robert Galbraith (Little, Brown & Company, 2013)
The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante (Europa Editions, 2012-2015)
Next time on Snark Squad Pod: We watch A Wrinkle In Time and see if we liked it better than the book in Episode 011.
Nicole is the co-captain of Snark Squad and these days she spends most of her time editing podcasts. She spends too much time on Twitter and very occasionally vlogs and blogs. In her day job she's a producer, editor, director, and sometimes host of educational YouTube channels. She loves travel, maps, panda gifs, and semicolons. Writing biographies stresses her out; she crowd sourced this one years ago and has been using a version of it ever since. She would like to thank Twitter for their help.
