‘Daisy Jones & the Six’: All the Biggest Changes From Book to Series
glamour.comWarning: Spoilers ahead for Daisy Jones & the SixDaisy Jones & the Six—the saga of sex, drugs, and rock and roll starring —has taken the stage.
The first three episodes of , adapted from of the same name and produced by , have launched on Prime Video with a mic drop.Although the show remains largely faithful to its source material, creators Scott Neustadter and Michael H.
Weber (500 Days of Summer, The Fault in Our Stars) transformed the book’s oral-history-style story of a Fleetwood Mac–inspired 1970s rock band into a fictional documentary with confessions and needle drops galore. “I was a fan first,” Neustadter of the best-selling novel. “And so for me, it was always like, I would be so mad if someone adapted a book that I loved and didn’t do the right thing.
So I kind of always come at it from that perspective. Hopefully—hopefully—people will be pleased.”As for Reid, whose blockbuster oeuvre includes The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (coming soon to Netflix), she’s also given the series’ stars a standing ovation. “When I think of the book, now I just see their faces,” she . “They’ve brought such depth and charisma to it.” Ahead, a breakdown of the biggest changes from book to screen, including an explanation of that missing band member.Reid’s novel presents the rise and fall of Daisy Jones & the Six as an oral history, featuring firsthand accounts from the band’s members, managers, and various music journalists.
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