![]() ![]() ![]() Many larger character and plot points were changed in the adaptation process, as well, including why Heather (Olivia Welch) joined the game in the first place, and who really needed to be punished in the end. Small differences between the page and screen versions include everything from the location (Carp, N.Y., in the novel, but Carp, Texas, in the show) to the amount of the game winnings ($67,000 in the novel, but only $50,000 in the show: “I did a calculation - a look at the towns around where we were and thought about how big the high school could be and added up $1/day,” she reveals). “I literally have a document with everything that happened in the town from 1989 on,” she says. She penned “reams and reams of backstory and thoughts” on even the tertiary characters while adapting her novel. ![]()
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