‘It Ends With Us’ Movie vs. Book: All The Changes Made
deadline.comSPOILER ALERT: This piece contains spoilers for the entirety of It Ends With Us. Christy Hall’s script for Sony’s It Ends With Us, adapted from the novel by Colleen Hoover, changes a few things from Hoover’s story structure, as is expected in a two-hour film versus a 300-plus page book.
Edits, changes and additions to the dialogue, plot and specifics of the story may be obvious to devout readers of Hoover’s novel while others are more subtle.
A smaller change in a momentous scene involves how Lily (Blake Lively) recognizes Atlas (Branden Sklenar) at his Boston restaurant.
Instead of looking him in the eye, she first notices his hand as he bends down to take an order from her and her mom, and its the familiar scar on his knuckles that tip her off as to who he is.
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