Production
A film adaptation of the novel was originally to be directed by Mike Nichols, from a script by Harold Pinter; some of Pinter's script was used in the film, but, while Pinter was paid for his work, he asked to have his name removed from the credits, in keeping with his contract. Christopher C. Hudgins observes: "During our 1994 interview, Pinter told Gale and me that he had learned his lesson after the revisions imposed on his script for The Handmaid's Tale, which he has decided not to publish. When his script for The Remains of the Day was radically revised by the James Ivory-Ismail Merchant partnership, he refused to allow his name to be listed in the credits" (125).
Though no longer the director, Nichols remained associated with the project as one of the producers of the Merchant Ivory film.
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