Split Screen: ‘Children of Men’ as Both Book and Film

Comparing P.D. James’s Classic Dystopian Novel and Its Big-Screen Adaptation

The connection between books and movie adaptations is usually tenuous, often treacherous. Christopher Tolkien was famously unhappy about Peter Jackson’s adaptations of his father’s masterwork, The Lord of the Rings. “The chasm between the beauty and seriousness of the work, and what it has become, has overwhelmed me,” he told Le Monde. “There is only on…