If I understood Taika Waititi correctly, the inspiration for him adapting goes like this: His mom had read the book and recommended it to him. The way she described it to him, he couldn’t picture it any way other than as a comedy or at least with a very heavy comedic tone. When he read it, he essentially thought that the version he’d gotten from his mom would make a better story so he decided to adapt it the way he did
If I understood Taika Waititi correctly, the inspiration for him adapting goes like this: His mom had read the book and recommended it to him. The way she described it to him, he couldn’t picture it any way other than as a comedy or at least with a very heavy comedic tone. When he read it, he essentially thought that the version he’d gotten from his mom would make a better story so he decided to adapt it the way he did