[bklyndv]

I dunno. I haven't read the book, so take that for what you will, but...

I remember having my jaw dropped when I first saw the boxy, square "shields" around people. Must've been very early in the days of CGI, and thinking about it now it may just have been rotoscoped.

The description on the page linked above sounds to me pretty amazing. I'd love to see it, regardless of how "true" it is to the source. I find book-to-movie comparisons generally unfair; though on the flip side, it's rare that anyone converting a book to film does it in a way that makes it inseparable from the medium -- you know, I love Dylan's version of "All Along the Watchtower" but Jimi's, I mean, can you honestly say one is better than the other? It's generally true that you could say "The book of this is a better book than the movie is a movie." Certainly the LOTRmovies seem this way.

Hitchcock used to option books and read only the first and last chapter, and sometimes even less. This way he knew the general "flow" of the story, but made everything in between his own (well, his and the screenwriter's). That gave him the freedom to move in film in a way that people adapting books generally don't.