Comments on: Hollywood Is Going To Try And Make An ‘Encyclopedia Brown’ Movie Again https://staging2.theplaylist.net/hollywood-is-going-to-try-and-make-an-encyclopedia-brown-movie-again-20130624/ Fri, 13 May 2016 09:38:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 By: Kevin Klawitter https://staging2.theplaylist.net/hollywood-is-going-to-try-and-make-an-encyclopedia-brown-movie-again-20130624/#comment-51636 Fri, 13 May 2016 09:38:41 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2013/more/uncategorized/hollywood-is-going-to-try-and-make-an-encyclopedia-brown-movie-again-96668/#comment-51636 "but we're not holding our breath that this won't be swiss cheesed into something barely resembling the books we grew up with."

Therein lies the problem. The "books we grew up with" consisted of multiple stories that were short, straightforward, and mostly unconnected. There were recurring characters and themes, but the very nature of the Encyclopedia Brown books would require major changes to turn any of them into even a 90-minute movie.

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