![]() ![]() So I just was drawn to - ironically, I was drawn to the tragedy of it. ![]() They reminded me of all those lost wayward children in film and literature and art that had moved me for years. And they're very sort of feathery and haunting and poetic. They were all pencil illustrations so they're black and white. LOGAN: There was something about the way Brian Selznick did the illustrations in the book that was very elegiac. JOHN LOGAN: Within five pages, I wanted to do it. Logan says Scorsese had mailed him a copy of Selznick's book. This week, we're joined by John Logan who's at NPR West. In the weeks before the Academy Awards later this month, we're looking at some of the films nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay. ![]() A lot of great films started as something else a book, a stage play, a television series. RACHEL MARTIN: Before "Hugo" was the hit film directed by Martin Scorsese, it was a children's book called "The Invention of Hugo Cabret," by Brian Selznick. ![]()
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