mpanty
Keen Commander
Besides, not adhering to the games would have made it easier for him to shoot the movie... he would not have had to worry about consistency problems, since he chose not to deal with them from the start...Originally posted by Dougie
(...) The author *would* have been given some guidelines, and it is likely that one of them would be how to design things relative to the games. Hence his response, implying that he was told not to adhere to the games; which thus implies that Roberts' intention was to ignore the games completely. (...)
This assuming Dougie's point is correct... (and I think it is)