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It's sort of an organic process when you're adapting any book, not even just your own. You want to preserve the heart of the story and you want to preserve who the characters are, but film requires a lot of compression.
Jonathan Tropper
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Jonathan Tropper
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: February 19
Executive Producer
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Riverdale
New York City
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