So runs the usual response to a movie adaptation – stuff gets cut, favourite scenes left out, it’s just not how you imagined it. So it’s unusual to be given a script and asked to turn it into a novel.

Colin Farrell revealed in a new interview with Deadline that he hadn’t yet read Reeves and Tomlin’s script for the sequel to 2022’s The Batman. He added, “But I’m very close to it. I can’t wait. I’m ...