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Is the book always better? Are they better off as Movies?? Finally, an answer. Author Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Comic Red Scott talk media that moves from one form to another. Whether it's Step...
Nothing could keep FTA favorite and Hugo Award Winning Author Sarah Gailey * away from their Christian Grey. Sarah pilots Red Scott and Magg...
Christina Hobbs! Lauren Billings!! The writing juggernaut known as Christina Lauren* joins Red Scott and Maggie Tokuda-Hall in Hawaii to dis...
How do you perfect the premise of NYC street racers who are all in it together? You add Ja Rule and the world's least charismatic white cop....
Colin Winnette* joins Red Scott and Maggie Tokuda-Hall to talk about the Susan Orlean article, Orchid Fever , and the 2002 Spike Jonze film...
After the 2008 financial collapse a lot of people said something had to be done about Wall Street, but some of the women at Scores were the...
Is there an interview subject so humble even God can't get them to talk about themself? Mister Rodgers is as close as it gets, and yet Tom J...
Precogs can predict crime, but did they anticipate the seminal science fiction novella would become a Steven Spielberg blockbuster? You'd ne...
Is it possible a movie that helped define Horror in cinema for generations is exceeded by the Novelette from whence it came? Red Scott and M...
Victoria Schwab , bestselling author of Shades of Magic series, the Villains series, and the international bestseller The Invisible Life of...
The most famous Volleyball scene in cinema was adapted from a magazine article with NO volleyball at all?! Red Scott and Maggie Tokuda-Hall...
One of the GOATs of children's literature has their disgusting green monster licensed by Steven Spielberg and somehow after a decade of deve...
What happens when an article that is technically a prequel to Eat, Pray, Love is made into an ode to midriff and low cut jeans? Red Scott an...
We're kicking off Season 4 of Failure to Adapt with bestselling romance novelist and FRIEND OF THE SHOW, Sarah MacLean !!! Sarah shows some...
What's a better digestif to a season of Austen than bringing in Hugo Award Winning Author Sarah Gailey (Just Like Home, The Echo Wife, EAT T...
Netflix's Bridgerton , based on the Julia Quinn novels, is the most successful regency romance in years, and based on the setting of 1813 En...
After spending a season of Failure to Adapt discussing Jane Austen adaptations, it's time to take a look at her significant influence on mod...
When genius writer and critic Alex Brown was spotted gnashing their teeth at the release of Netflix's Persuasion , the crew knew they had to...
When there are two famous regency Emma adaptations, you have to ask yourself: Do you want Bill Nighy to be in it or one of the all time grea...
We brought in an expert to talk Jane Austen's impetuous matchmaker Emma and her transformation into Cher, a virgin who can't drive. Best-Sel...
After covering enough Pride and Prejudice adaptations to fill Mr & Mrs. Bennet's dining room table, Red Scott and Maggie Tokuda-Hall are her...
From the most faithful PnP adaptations to the most treacherous and fickle, Red Scott and Maggie Tokuda-Hall dice up the 2004 Bollywood inspi...
Fresh off her win at the 2022 Jeopardy Tournament of Champions, Amy Schneider stormed into the Failure to Adapt podcast studio and demanded...
Jane Austen Adaptation CONTINUES as Molly Sanchez returns to discuss two Pride & Prejudice adaptions: The Sharon Maguire Directed Bridget Jo...
Walt Hickey (creator & writer of numlock.com & Senior Editor for Data at Insider) is not only an insightful and hilarious guest, he is Failu...
The honeymoon's over, and Hugo Award Winning Author Sarah Gailey (Just Like Home, The Echo Wife, EAT THE RICH) joins Maggie & Red one last t...
Hugo award winning author Sarah Gailey (Just Like Home, The Echo Wife, EAT THE RICH) joins this shotgun podcast with Maggie & Red to witness...
Author and Drag Artist Joe Wadlington joins to discuss a graphic novel showed the world a present and future of gay love that a previous gen...
Whether you love a Tom Cruise movie or would rather he die repeatedly on a distant beach, this adaptation's got something for you. Maggie &...
A beloved young adult novel is turned into a beloved young adult film, but only one can break the centuries old curse, while the other will...
Disney sends Assistant Pig Keeper Jeffrey Katzenberg back to the Well with the task of adapting beloved fantasy novels into an animated film...
A story that starts as Crime & Punishment for teens morphs into four Teen Beat Cover Models with an impossibly convoluted slasher angle, but...
Today we learn the importance of forgiveness, OR the satisfaction of gruesome retribution, OR something more modern and complex, depending o...
The only rule of Podcast Club is podcasts will go on as long as they have to. Maggie & Red talk the adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Cl...
Who better to discuss "love, true love" than the heir to the throne of Florin himself, Prince Humperdinck. Chris Sarandon joins Maggie & Red...
A movie franchise so grueling it chewed through three Directors in each of its first three films only needs one guest, Hugo award winning au...
You don't need the odds to be ever in your favor when you've got a guest with a 40-game win streak on Jeopardy. That's right, Amy Schneider...
Finally a film that follows the #1 rule of adaptations: Replace as many characters as possible with Muppets. Molly Sanchez joins Maggie & Re...
When Director and pilot Doug Liman almost ran out of fuel taking his first solo flight to visit Robert Ludlum to acquire the rights to his n...
If you've never read Robert A. Heinlein's 1959 book Starship Troopers , don't worry! Paul Verhoeven, director of the 1997 film, Starship Tro...
Squad , The Graphic Novel created by Maggie Tokuda-Hall & Lisa Sterle is available now at bookstores everywhere ! To celebrate, Red intervie...
When it's time to talk about the Phillip Pullman novel The Golden Compass (1995) and the corresponding Chris Weitz film The Golden Compass (...
The 1989 animated Disney film The Little Mermaid is known the world over as the beginning of The Disney Renaissance , but how many of us hav...
As Dev Patel is a snack and genius author Annalee Newitz just happened to have done their senior thesis on courtly love in the 14th century...
Maggie Tokuda-Hall 's & Red Scott have been stranded and are completely unable to communicate with NASA, so they're covering their first blo...
Twilight, Again. Failure to Adapt's first return guest, Hugo award winning author Sarah Gailey (EAT THE RICH, The Echo Wife, River of Teeth)...
One of Maggie Tokuda-Hall 's favorite and most formative books is Neil Gaiman's 1999 fantasy novel Stardust , and one of Red Scott 's absolu...
The Locus Award Winning, Perfect and Prolific Author & Essayist Meg Elison ( Find Layla, Big Girl, The Book of The Unnamed Midwife, etc…) ag...
When someone suggests the book is always better than the movie, there is one exception that's near universal: Jurassic Park . Maggie Tokuda-...
Hugo award winning author Sarah Gailey (EAT THE RICH, The Echo Wife, River of Teeth) joins hosts Maggie Tokuda-Hall & Red Scott to talk the...
Welcome to Failure to Adapt! Hosted by author Maggie Tokuda-Hall and comedian Red Scott , Failure to Adapt discusses media that moves from o...