Failure to Adapt

The honeymoon’s over, and Hugo Award Winning Author Sarah Gailey (Just Like Home, The Echo Wife, EAT THE RICH) joins Maggie & Red one last time to wait out the 72 hours between giving birth and heading to the most sensual Thomas Kinkade inspired love shack. There was of course, only one way this could ever end: with a teenager betrothed to an infant and a supernatural battle for the ages (or not). They’re (finally!) talking the final half of Stephenie Meyer’s Breaking Dawn (2008) and its adaptation into the 2012 Bill Condon film, Breaking Dawn: Part 2. PRE-ORDER SARAH GAILEY’S JUST LIKE HOME Buy Maggie’s newest book, Love in the Library If you like us, you’ll also enjoy: Following the pod on twitter: https://twitter.com/FailureAdapt Supporting Failure to Adapt on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FailureToAdaptPodcast

Hugo award winning author Sarah Gailey (Just Like Home, The Echo Wife, EAT THE RICH) joins this shotgun podcast with Maggie & Red to witness Edward & Bella enter the holy state of Batrimony, before heading to Isle Esme (formerly: The Island of No Innocents Were Murdered Here) and then back to the Cullen homestead for some moderate body horror. They’re talking the first half of Stephenie Meyer’s Breaking Dawn (2008) and its adaptation into the 2011 Bill Condon film, Breaking Dawn: Part 1. PRE-ORDER SARAH GAILEY’S JUST LIKE HOME !! Buy Maggie’s newest book, Love in the Library !! If you like us, you’ll also enjoy: Following the pod on twitter: https://twitter.com/FailureAdapt Supporting Failure to Adapt on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FailureToAdaptPodcast

Author and Drag Artist Joe Wadlington joins to discuss a graphic novel showed the world a present and future of gay love that a previous generation could only dream of and the show based on it which became a sensation. Joe, Maggie & Red discuss Alice Oseman’s graphic novel Heartstopper (2016) as well as the Euros Lyn Directed Netflix series, Heartstopper (2022). Joe Wadlington has been published in the New Yorker, Architectural Digest, Vox, Food and Wine Magazine, and Catapult. He co-hosts/co-produces "Happy Endings", a live, literary mixtape every 2nd Tuesday at the Make Out Room in San Francisco. As the drag queen, Jubilee, Joe is the reigning "Miss Cowgirl." Joe is currently writing a Young Adult novel about teen witches in the Appalachian Mountains. Buy Maggie’s newest book, Love in the Library !!! If you like us, you’ll also enjoy: Following the pod on twitter: https://twitter.com/FailureAdapt Supporting Failure to Adapt on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FailureToAdaptPodcast

Whether you love a Tom Cruise movie or would rather he die repeatedly on a distant beach, this adaptation’s got something for you. Maggie & Red discuss Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s All You Need is Kill (2004) and the Doug Liman Directed Edge of Tomorrow (2014). Buy Maggie’s newest book, Love in the Library !!! If you like us, you’ll also enjoy: Following the pod on twitter: https://twitter.com/FailureAdapt Supporting Failure to Adapt on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FailureToAdaptPodcast

A beloved young adult novel is turned into a beloved young adult film, but only one can break the centuries old curse, while the other will meet its end in the dirt surrounded by Yellow-Spotted Lizards. Maggie & Red discuss Louis Sachar’s Holes (1998) and it's cinema counterpart, the Shia LaBeouf vehicle Holes (2003). Buy Maggie’s newest book, Love in the Library !!! If you like us, you’ll also enjoy: Following the pod on twitter: https://twitter.com/FailureAdapt Supporting Failure to Adapt on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FailureToAdaptPodcast

Disney sends Assistant Pig Keeper Jeffrey Katzenberg back to the Well with the task of adapting beloved fantasy novels into an animated film, what could possibly go wrong? Chuck Wendig joins Maggie & Red to talk Lloyd Alexander’s The Book of Three (1964) and The Black Cauldron (1965) as well as the film that almost killed Disney, 1985’s Animated Feature, The Black Cauldron. Chuck Wendig (terribleminds.com, @ChuckWendig on twitter) is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Star Wars: Aftermath, as well as the Miriam Black thrillers, the Atlanta Burns books, Zer0es/Invasive, Wanderers, as well as his most recent books Dust & Grim and Book of Accidents. Wayward, the sequel to Wanderers is scheduled for publication November 15th. Buy Maggie’s newest book, Love in the Library !!! If you like us, you’ll also enjoy: Following the pod on twitter: https://twitter.com/FailureAdapt Supporting Failure to Adapt on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FailureToAdaptPodcast

A story that starts as Crime & Punishment for teens morphs into four Teen Beat Cover Models with an impossibly convoluted slasher angle, but which version is best? Maggie & Red talk Lois Duncan’s I Know What You Did Last Summer (1973) and the Jim Gillespie Directed film I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997). Buy Maggie’s newest book, Love in the Library !!! If you like us, you’ll also enjoy: Following the pod on twitter: https://twitter.com/FailureAdapt Supporting Failure to Adapt on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FailureToAdaptPodcast

Today we learn the importance of forgiveness, OR the satisfaction of gruesome retribution, OR something more modern and complex, depending on which adaptation fits. FTA favorite and Cinderella scholar* Molly Sanchez returns to three versions of the folk tale including Charles Perrault’s The Little Glass Slipper (1697), Aschenputtel (1819) by The Brothers Grimm, and of course the Andy Tennant film Ever After: A Cinderella Story (1998).  Molly is the former co-host of the podcast The Hold Up, as well as Red All Over: A Handmaid's Tale Podcast, along with being an accomplished writer and comic. Buy Maggie’s newest book, Love in the Library !!! If you like us, you’ll also enjoy: Following the pod on twitter: https://twitter.com/FailureAdapt Supporting Failure to Adapt on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FailureToAdaptPodcast

The only rule of Podcast Club is podcasts will go on as long as they have to. Maggie & Red talk the adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club (1996) into the David Fincher Directed Fight Club (1999). You haven’t heard a podcast like this since grade school. Buy Maggie’s newest book, Love in the Library !!! If you like us, you’ll also enjoy: Following the pod on twitter: https://twitter.com/FailureAdapt Supporting Failure to Adapt on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FailureToAdaptPodcast

Who better to discuss “love, true love” than the heir to the throne of Florin himself, Prince Humperdinck. Chris Sarandon joins Maggie & Red talk the adaptation of William Goldman’s The Princess Bride (1973) into the Rob Reiner Directed The Princess Bride (1987). Chris Sarandon’s career on stage and screen dates back to 1965. He was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Dog Day Afternoon, played Prince Humperdinck in The Princess Bride, voiced Jack Skellington in The Nightmare Before Christmas, among dozens of other roles. Buy Maggie’s newest book, Love in the Library !!! If you like us, you’ll also enjoy: Following the pod on twitter: https://twitter.com/FailureAdapt Supporting Failure to Adapt on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FailureToAdaptPodcast