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>unlike fiction, there is no copyright on historical fact.
I wasn’t arguing that, you dumb shithead. I was explaining the process of how a movie get made.
The reason The Long Walk is now a movie instead of some historic death march is simple: The Long Walk is a book by Stephen King and thus there is automatic potential monetary value in making a movie like that when many of his books in the past have already been turned into profitable movies and it’s easy to make yet another adaptation.
It’s also a fact that most modern historical films are based on books because that way you don’t have to spend months researching everything before you could write a single page of screenplay.
All you did was start whining about pedantic and entirely irrelevant bullshit.
Schindler’s List was made because it was adapted from a book. A book that won the Booker Prize and got Spielberg interested in turning it into a movie. That is how historical films get made 9/10 times. They find a book, they option it and then adapt it. It’s faster and more efficient than spending months/years doing research for something yourself.
