• ramble81
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    5 hours ago

    Yeah the book is much darker and more in depth. It gets into topics around class divides and suicide. Which is why when I went to see the play it was so jarring to me.

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      3 hours ago

      Anticipating Book > Film (musical?) > Play/Musical

      Hopefully, what they padded the movie with is the contents — the politics — of the book. As u/MrVilliam said above:

      they took a movie-length two act play and padded it out to chop it up into two movies. And they’ll be rewarded for it. Together, they’ll gross over $1.5 billion, maybe over 2.