And if they got it wrong, they would have been forced to adapt the great Ukrainian author Gogol, who has always been criminally underrepresented in Hollywood.

I say keep them away from THE MASTER AND MARGARITA at all costs, though.

I saw an opera production of The Nose where they'd adapted the story to the music of Shostakovich and yes, they had people on stage walking around as giant disembodied noses.