The book was better

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Across
  1. 2. Reclusive author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’
  2. 4. The 1996 version of ‘Treasure Island’ features what in place of human actors?
  3. 7. Peter Jackson’s slog of a trilogy is based on this
  4. 9. Robert A. Heinlin’s bug-filled space war novel
  5. 11. Philip Pullman trilody featuring Lyra and Will
  6. 12. Dahl’s children’s book in which the main character is turned into a mouse
  7. 17. Margaret Atwood’s dystopia featuring the Republic of Gilead
  8. 20. 1987 film featuring Inigo Montoya, who’s father was killed by six-fingered man
  9. 21. Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic novel
Down
  1. 1. Rick Riordan’s ‘Percy Jackson and the ______’
  2. 3. Author of ‘Where the wild things are’
  3. 5. Xenophon’s anabasis is the precursor to this 1979 cult film by Walter Hill
  4. 6. Richard Matheson novel butchered so that Will Smith can play a hero
  5. 8. ‘O Brother, Where Art Thou’ is based on this epic
  6. 10. with the dragon tattoo
  7. 13. Robert Jordan series featuring Rand, Mat, Perrin, Egwene and Nynaeve
  8. 14. Michael Crichton’s dinosaur-filled amusement park
  9. 15. 2000 flop featuring Leonardo DiCaprio
  10. 16. Sean Penn adapted this Jon Krakauer novel
  11. 18. Truman Capote’s true crime novel
  12. 19. King’s post-apocalyptic series featuring Roland Deschain