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Fans may react badly should a remaster or remake fail to do justice to the source material.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
A major challenge of adaptation is to capture the spirit of the source material without being a copy of it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
Flanagan has brought other Stephen King novels to the screen before, but those have tended to be much more faithful to the source material.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
The Times has reached out to Tree Paine, Swift’s longtime rep, to confirm if Kaufman’s column was any sort of source material for the song, and will update this accordingly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
This was primary source material, research papers based on direct experimental data, involved theoretical constructions utilizing a complex vocabulary and containing a wealth of original ideas—and he was breaking his head on it.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
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