[massgopguy]

I was pissed when Tom Clancy let them rewrite The Sum of All Fears from the accuracy of his own book.

[Phlyer]

I was pissed when Tom Clancy let them rewrite The Sum of All Fears from the accuracy of his own book.

"Let them" is a bit of a misrepresentation. I went to a Tom Clancy book signing and he spoke for a while before the line formed, including taking questions from the audience. He was challenged on the Hollywood interpretation of several of his books. He said that he sells the rights to the story to the studio, and after that he has no say in what they do with it.

So, it's arguable that he made a mistake in selling the rights to the story . . . but I don't know how much they offered for the rights so he may be crying all the way to the bank. (And I might have done the same thing, for enough money. meaning it would be hard for me to call it a 'mistake'.)

But his error - if any - was in selling the rights, not in 'letting them' change the story once they had the rights.