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

Everyone’s Talking About Christopher Nolan’s ‘Odyssey.’ Let’s Examine P.D. James’s Classic Dystopian Novel and Its Big-Screen Adaptation

As the social-media storm instigated by director Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey reveals, the connection between books and their transmutation into movies is usually tenuous, sometimes treacherous, and people have . . . opinions.

Christopher Tolkien was famously unhappy about Peter Jackson’s adaptations of his father’s masterwork, The Lord…