Open Question: What much-filmed story should be off limits for a little while?

Open Question: What much-filmed story should be off limits for a little while?

Earlier this week, Scott wrote about Luc Besson's new adaptation of Dracula, a review that shored up my decision not to rush out to the theater to see it. I was already primed to give this one a miss. I'm not the biggest Besson fan anyway (even putting aside the accusations heaped on him) but I'm also a little Dracula-ed out. After all, the recent Nosferatu provided a pretty terrific adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel (in all but name). Last year also brought Radu Jude's Dracula, which isn't really an adaption but certainly does feature many different variations on the Dracula story. Then there was Netflix's 2020 Dracula and The Last Voyage of the Demeter and Renfield and, well, it's easy to get Dracula fatigue. Next week will bring Emerald Fennell's "Wuthering Heights," which arrives not that many years after Andrea Arnold's adaptation. Quick, let me check how many: Oh... It's been 15 years? OK, that seems like a respectable time between adaptations. Still, it might be a good time to put that novel on ice for a few years after Fennell's version. It's not that we don't love these stories but because we love these stories that we don't want them to wear out their welcome. What story would you be OK not seeing adapted for a while?

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