Is originality over-rated?

In the age of the mash-up, adaptations, reappropriations and covers can provide a more viable stream of work than doing your own thing.
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Sarah Snook as Anna in The Beautiful Lie

For Alice Bell Tolstoy’s classic novel Anna Karenina was ‘a gift’. For years she​ had been urged to read it by television producer John Edwards for years, screenwriter Bell loved the drama from the moment she read the first page. She started a modernised television adaptation soon after, and the result  – six-part drama The Beautiful Lie – is currently airing on ABC.

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Phoebe Hartley
About the Author
Phoebe is a filmmaker and journalist based in Melbourne. Her short films and documentaries have screened in film festivals around the world, and she is currently a team writer for Hijacked.com.au.