From Bushwick to Hollywood: what the Girls movie needs to get right

Lena Dunham is keen to bring Hannah and her hipster pals to the big screen, but she needs to be wary. Just ask Sarah Jessica Parker ...

If there was one lesson to be learned from watching 2010’s vapid Sex and the City sequel, it’s that we as a society have failed and need to burn everything to the ground and start again. If we could scrape another key learning, it’s to be incredibly wary about adapting any other much-loved HBO shows into inflated big-screen blockbusters.

Before we get this summer’s multiplex take on the “bros before hoes except when the hoes are bangin’” comedy Entourage, Lena Dunham has expressed an ambition to turn her Brooklyn-based show Girls into a movie in the nearish future.