The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 63%, with an average rating of 6.30/10, based on 156 reviews. Ralph Fiennes was approached for the role as Randolph Ash that eventually went to Jeremy Northam. in part, it was more comfortable for me to write Roland that way." Casting He denied that this was "shameless pandering to the audience. LaBute changed Roland's nationality from British to American, and made him more brash and active. And so in the film, Roland keeps making these wild, imaginative leaps about the poets' lives, and Maud's both charmed and appalled." Just seeing those notes kind of gave me the keys to the kingdom. "What she basically said was, 'This is Roland on the page you must make him different in a film!' She got that Roland needed more drive. LaBute made drastic changes to the story, based partially on notes that original author Byatt had made on earlier drafts of the screenplay, as she recognized that Roland Michell had to "exist on screen" in a different way than he did in the book. Directors such as Sydney Pollack and Gillian Armstrong worked on the film and eventually gave up before LaBute became director. Three early drafts of the film's screenplay were written by American playwright David Henry Hwang in the 1990s, but the project languished in pre-production for years.
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