Sharon Olson asked Colleen Houck:

Being a voracious reader all my life I have never felt that a movie could ever do justice to the book. Having said that , I tried to even find actors or models etc that could do justice to Ren or Kishan. ( the artist fir Tigers Dream did well for a Kishan but the movies leave out too much information. Are you concerned with that at all?

Colleen Houck Hi Sharon. That's a thoughtful question. I agree with you that too often movies leave out important scenes or don't do justice to the material found in books. My favorite films are those that expand on books and give you more. You can always tell when a director loves the source material because they delve deeper. A film series that comes to mind is The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. Now I know there are those who will argue about details that were included or excluded or about actor choice, etc., and there will be many that will engage in a lively debate regarding if the Hobbit really needed to be expanded to three films, but I don't think anyone can argue with me when I say Peter Jackson cares a great deal about the source material and knows it intimately. Now, not all of these decisions are left up to the director. It takes a team to bring a movie or a book to an audience. There are always compromises. But when it comes to vision, you can see, on-screen, that Peter Jackson had one. In this case, I felt he did justice to the source material. So, my long answer is, yes, it can be done, and no, I'm not concerned. Why? The man who owns the rights has a vision.

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