Adapting the Twists and Turns of ‘Conclave'
The screenwriter Peter Straughan has become adept at taking well known — and beloved — books and adapting them for the big and small screens. He was first nominated for an Oscar for his screenplay of the 2011 film 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,' based on the classic John le Carré spy novel, and then adapted Hilary Mantel's 'Wolf Hall' trilogy into an award-winning season of television, with an adaptation of the third novel coming out soon. Now he has been nominated for a second Oscar: for his screenplay for 'Conclave,' based on Robert Harris's political thriller set in the secret world of a papal election.
'It's almost like mosaic work,' Straughan tells Gilbert Cruz, the editor of The New York Times Book Review, about adapting books. 'You have all these pieces; sometimes they're going to be laid out in a very similar order to the book, sometimes a completely different order. Sometimes you're going to deconstruct and rebuild completely.'
In the third episode of our special series devoted to Oscar-nominated films adapted from books, Cruz talks with Straughan about his process of translating a book to the screen, and about the moments in ''Conclave' that he found most exciting to adapt.
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