The great thing about adapting a short story rather than a novel is that it demands expansion rather than reduction-it’s a springboard, not a blueprint. Unfortunately, it’s hard to make money out of short films, which they probably should be.Ī reviewer at The New Yorker is rather more optimistic about this than I am: Scriptwriters must artificially bulk them out. My theory is that sometimes short stories (and picture books) are simply too short to fill a feature length film. “Brokeback Mountain” is a capacious, novelistic short story, and and gives the director far more to work with, coming in at 9,135 words. “ Brokeback Mountain” is a short story adapted far more successfully for film ( though not according to Annie Proulx, because they butchered the main message). I haven’t seen the films but it’s interesting someone financed feature length movies out of a story so short - “Walter Mitty” is 2,512 words.
The story has been adapted several times for film, most recently in 2013. “ The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” (1939) is a short story by American humorist James Thurber.
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