Popular Culture Review Vol. 19, No. 1, Winter 2008 | Page 71

Ken Follett’s Foray into Film 67 Afghan warlords and their followers as heroes and champions of freedom would have been problematic. A civil war had erupted in Kabul in 1993, with warlords and renegade generals establishing their own local dictatorships the following year. By 1995, major cities had fallen to the Taliban, with revenge killings and summary executions ensuing and with new alliances and factions emerging. But other changes to the screenplay adaptation of Follett’s book seem driven less by geopolit