Rabbit, Run | Adaptations
According to Donald Greiner in John Updike's Novels, Updike originally subtitled the manuscript of Rabbit, Run "a movie," and he wrote the opening scene of Rabbit playing basketball with two young boys after work as background for the title and credits of the film. Greiner reports that Updike later realized that the film medium could not show the ambiguous nature of Rabbit's questing and therefore abandoned the screenplay idea.
However, in 1970 Warner Brothers produced and Jack Smight directed the film version of Rabbit, Run, which starred James Caan as...
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