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    11 hours ago

    Anticipating Book > Film (musical?) > Play/Musical

    Hopefully, what they padded the movie with is the contents — the politics — of the book. As u/MrVilliam said above:

    they took a movie-length two act play and padded it out to chop it up into two movies. And they’ll be rewarded for it. Together, they’ll gross over $1.5 billion, maybe over 2.