If he did just sell the title rights and his name I can imagine he is pretty disappointed with the way it turned out. I can't imagine selling off the rights to something I created without having a significant amount of creative control over what was going to happen in the movie. The worst part is that many people are going to walk away just assuming that this was on par with the book when in fact it is not, as you have clearly pointed out.
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