Dangantakar da ke tsakanin silima da adabi ba koyaushe ce mafi kyawu ba. Yawancin manyan litattafan da aka kawo daga baya zuwa babban allon, ba su dace da daidaita su ba. Kyakkyawan misali na iya zama "The Name of the Rose" na Humberto Eco, wanda Jean Jacques Arnoud ya yi fim a 1986, fiasco ne idan aka kwatanta da littafin.
Yanzu, kuma bayan shekaru da yawa na jita -jita, a ƙarshe ɗan wasan kwaikwayo da darekta Laurence fishburne ya ba da sanarwar cewa littafin "The Alchemist" na ɗan ƙasar Brazil Paulo Coelho zai sami sigar fim ɗin sa. Fishburne zai bada umarni kuma shi ma ya sake rubuta rubutun.
An buga "The Alchemist" a 1988 kuma ya sayar da kwafi sama da miliyan 40. Littafin ya ba da labarin wani saurayi da ke son samun ɓoyayyen taska a cikin dala na Masar. Labarin ya yi wahayi sosai ta "Siddhartha", labari na Hermann Hesse, kodayake tare da sakamako mara kyau.