Robert Redford walks a mile in Bill Bryson's shoes in new movie

Bill Bryson isn’t too put out that Robert Redford took a few liberties in the film version of his travelogue, writes Ed Power

IF BILL BRYSON did not already appreciate his privileged position as a bestselling writer of non-fiction, a brush with Hollywood was enough to convince him of his good fortune. The American humorist has just seen his 1998 travelogue A Walk In The Woods adapted into a Robert Redford movie.

While Bryson’s involvement is peripheral, what he witnessed of the film-making process was sufficient to convince him authors have a far more straightforward time of it than filmmakers.