Thread:Vetinari/@comment-24031888-20140916141507

How do you handle differences between a film and its novelization? As an example from Crystal Skull, there are 5 unnamed MPs in the movie, whereas there are only three in the novel who are indicated by name. In Higgins, for example it is indicated that "he, Wycroft and Private Mitchell were left on gate duty". According to the film however, it would have to be "he, Wycroft, Mitchell and two other MPs were left on gate duty". So if the name is taken from the novel, can the action be taken from the film? Or the other way round? Is there a general procedure? 