[rbmillerjr]

TOM CLANCY used to have principle and not sell out this badly on a movie. GREED KILLS

[rbmillerjr]

bump I'm not seeing it.

[ArcLight]

When Clancy was on C-Span a few weeks ago, he said that he doesn't try to exercise control over what Hollywood does with his books. He just sells them the rights, cashes the check and moves on. So he has no control over what they do with Sum of All Fears, and doesn't mind it. He seems to be unashamedly saying, I'm in it for the bucks. Considering the steady deterioration in his books, I can believe it.

[genefromjersey]

The big problem is: when you sell rights to a film,the buyer can do just about anything he/she wants with it. A good example was the very conservative novel Advise and Consent which film maker Otto Preminger turned into a "liberal" movie.

[doug from upland]

Clancy has plenty of movie. How could he let his work be compromised like this?

[KC_Conspirator]

Are you kidding me? This is bull$hit. The whole premise of the movie is that arab terrorists stumble upon an unexploded atom bomb in the Golan Heights lost from an Isreali jet during the 73' war. This changes the whole movie as the arab terrorists try to find engineers to arm the bomb and find a way to sneak it into the USA for the Superbowl.