Contrast this with how the Armani-suited blow-dried imbeciles who run the Hollywood machine usually do buisiness. The Sum of All Fears, Queen of the Damned, Godzilla, all of these are the result of the slapdash, sell-toys-be-PC-screw-the-fans attitude that pervades the American film capitol
I haven't seen those, but Islands in the Stream with George C. Scott really made me mad. I was really looking forward to it, but about all that seemed similar to Hemingway's book was the title. Imagine filming a Bimini setting in Hawaii! It was supposed to take place on a tiny flat "coral" Bahamian island about 50 yards wide with white sand, not a huge island with mountains and yellow dirt and South Sea jungles.
Imagine taking a Hemingway manuscript and then not paying any attention to it.