If I had written that book...

Blog (and Facebook) friend Mike W. made the observation that the movie based on John Grisham's The Runaway Jury was changed; that is, they changed the company being sued from a tobacco company to a gun manufacturer. I know well that the idea for suing the latter came from the suits against the former, and from what I remember the book was full of anti-tobacco propaganda; however, I still wonder why (if indeed he did) Grisham allowed the filmmakers to make that change. If it'd been my book there wouldn't have been enough money in the world to get me to let them do that.What an ugly change, especially after A Time to Kill. No doubt they'd have made much of the "easy availability" of full-auto M-16s...