Talking about the remake of Lolita begs the question of why rewrites of books aren't popular. There might have been a couple, but they're not the norm are they? For example, off the top of my head, I think a rewrite of "The Running Man" by, say, Iain Banks, could well surpass the original. Is it something to do with the ownership of the rights? I.e. movie rights are owned by studios whose only motive is profit, but book rights are owned by authors who have reputations to worry about. But still, I'd expect to see impoverished or forgotten authors getting rewrite treatments. There must be masses of great material out there which could benefit from the attention of a modern stylist. Or perhaps it's that hubristic authors, unlike studios or directors, would feel inadequate remaking someone else's story as opposed to creating their own from whole cloth.
What novels would you like to see rewritten, and by whom?
What about poetry?!
Two writes = wrong?
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Anything by Dan Brown or Nick Hornby.