REVIEW
Unhealthy origins
How do you adapt a popular non-fiction book for the big screen? In beefy biopics like Oppenheimer – based on the critically lauded doorstop American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J Robert Oppenheimer – the filmmakers are usually gifted a literal character arc.
For more abstract bestsellers – like the stat-filled baseball analysis or the jargon-heavy subprime mortgage investigation , both adapted into award-winning movies – it feels like screenwriters try and find a narrative thread
