And he did so as someone who truly loved the original, who respected his source material, and who as a general rule carved it with the grain and not against it in his attempt to shape it into the needs of a big budget film trilogy.

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When the source material is ultrafamiliar and the original film full of top-tier stars, it's all but impossible to survive the comparison game.

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