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Tulip Fever author Deborah Moggach recalls 'nightmare' movie adaptation

How Gordon Brown, Harvey Weinstein and a milkman ensured film was ‘a ghastly disaster’

It is a tale of two bestselling books about 17th century Dutch painters which both became films. One was a joy. The other a “complete nightmare from start to finish” which ended in flames with Harvey Weinstein.

The writers Tracy Chevalier and Deborah Moggach told an audience at Hay festival of their hugely different experiences for adaptations of their novels Girl With a Pearl Earring and Tulip Fever.

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from Culture | The Guardian http://bit.ly/2XgyEIo

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