Netflix ’s most exciting book adaptation, The Picture of Dorian Gray , had the chance to revitalize the platform’s horror genre and give the story a proper adaptation, but it has been already ruined before it has released due to one upsetting change.

Classic literature is a goldmine for filmmakers and showrunners . There are so many great stories to tell, and they can modernize them in interesting ways that keep the story fresh. However, the exception to the modernization rule arises when an element is so fundamental to the story that removing or altering it would make the story no longer itself.

They shouldn’t remove the scarlet A from The Scarlet Letter . They shouldn’t remove the exploration of racism from To Kill A Mockingbird . They shouldn’t remove thought policing from 19

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