Movies Based On Books

[glm]

This thread is a discussion about books that have has movies based on them.

This part of my post is from a list I created of what I thought were the greatest movies of all time, then I found out which ones were based in books. Here are the movies based on books.

" " = Short story.

1. The Godfather - The Godfather - Mario Puzo
2. It's A Wonderful Life - "The Greatest Gift" - Phillip Van Doren Stern
3. The Godfather: Part II - The Godfather - Mario Puzo
4. The Silence of the Lambs - The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris
5. Raging Bull - Raging Bull: My Story - Jake La Motta
6. The Return of the King - The Return of the King - J.R.R. Tolkien
7. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kasey
8. Dr. Strangelove - Red Alert - Peter George
9. Apocalypse Now - Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad/Dispatches - Michael Herr
10. 2001: A Space Odyssey - 2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke/"The Sentinel" - Arthur C. Clarke
11. Psycho - Psycho - Robert Bloch
12. Goodfellas - Wiseguy - Nicholas Pileggi
13. Gone With the Wind - Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
14. To Kill a Mocking Bird - To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
15. Vertigo - The Living and the Dead - Piere Boileau and Thomas Narcejac
16. The Wizard of Oz - The Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
17. City of God - City of God - Paulo Lins
18. Memento - "Memento Mori" - Johnathan Nolan
19. Fight Club - Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
20. The Shawshank Redemption - "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption" - Stephen King
21. Rear Window - It Had to be Murder - Cornell Woolrich
22. The Exorcist - The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty
23. A Streetcar Named Desire - A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams (Play)
24. Ben - Hur (1959) - Ben - Hur: A Tale of Christ - Lew Wallace
25. The Bridge on the River Kwai - The Bridge Over the River Kwai - Pierre Boulle
26. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - B. Traver
27. The Shining - The Shining - Stephen King
28. Double Indemnity - Double Indemnity - James M. Cain
29. The Maltese Falcon - The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
30. The Fellowship of the Ring - The Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien
31. Full Metal Jacket - The Short - Timers - Gustav Harford
32. Jaws - Jaws - Peter Benchley
33. A Clockwork Orange - A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
34. Frankenstein - Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
35. No Country for Old Men - No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
36. The Great Escape - The Great Escape - Paul Brickhill
37. There Will Be Blood - Oil! - Upton Sinclair
38. The Two Towers - The Two Towers - J.R.R. Tolkien
39. Nosferatu - Dracula - Bram Stoker
40. Das Boot - Das Boot - Lothar G. Buchheim
41. Million Dollar Baby - Short Stories by F.X. Toole
42. Metropolis - Metropolis - Thea Von Harbou
43. Requiem for a Dream - Requiem for a Dream - Hurburt Shelby Jr.
44. Forrest Gump - Forrest Gump - Winston Groom
45. Die Hard - Nothing Lasts Forever - Roderick Thorp
46. Paths of Glory - Paths of Glory - Humphrey Cobb
47. L.A. Confidential - L.A. Confidential - James Ellroy
48. Touch of Evil - Badge of Evil - Whit Masterson
49. The Green Mile - The Green Mile - Stephen King
50. Casino - Casino - Nicholas Pileggi
51. The Princess Bride - The Princess Bride - William Goldman
52. The Prestige - The Prestige - Christopher Priest
53. Rosemary's Baby - Rosemary's Baby - Ira Levin
54. The Pianist - The Pianinst - Wladyslaw Szpilman
55. Stand By Me - "The Body" - Stephen King
56. Rebecca - Rebecca - Daphne du Maurter
57. The Thing - "Who Goes There?" - John W. Campbell, Jr.
58. Village of the Damned - John Wyndham

[fernandito]

Blade Runner - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Phillip K. Dick


#37 - I think you meant to put There. *

[idk, my bff jill?]

American Psycho - American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis

Loved both the novel and the movie.

[John_and_Yoko]

How about:

The Graduate - The Graduate - Charles Webb?



From the excerpt I saw on amazon.com, the book isn't much, but I do enjoy the movie.

[SigTauGimp]

The Mist - The Mist - Stephen King

[glm]

Blade Runner - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Phillip K. Dick


#37 - I think you meant to put There. *

Yeah . . . damn typos.

I also enjoyed:

Hannibal - Hannibal - Thomas Harris

And to an extent,

Red Dragon - Red Dragon - Thomas Harris.

[BROWNINGS CHILDE]

Did not know that Goodfellas and Full Metal Jacket were based on novels....
*runs to the bookstore*

[Sam]

2001: A Space Odyssey was not based on the book. The book and the movie were written in tandem by Kubrick and Clarke. The story was an expansion (a major one at that with extensive reworking) of the short story "The Sentinel" written by Clarke in 1948.

[Sam]

High And Low - King's Ransom - Ed McBain

[turtlex]

Goodfellas is based on the book "Wiseguy" by Nick Pileggi.

How about "Mystic River" and "Gone Baby Gone" both by Dennis Lehane - both great movies based on books.

[Brice]

Sleepers-Sleepers-Lorenzo Carcaterra

[turtlex]

Oh, nice one, Brice.

Sleepers was great.

[Brice]

It was. It made me cry though.

[turtlex]

It's one of those great movies that I can watch again and again. Great performances all around.

Nuttin' wrong with crying. It's a very emotional movie.

[Brice]

Oh, I know. I love that movie. The book is really good too.

[Still Servant]

They might not be as good as some of the films/books on the list above, but I'll state them anyway:

Children of Men - P.D. James
Jarhead - Anthony Swarski
A Simple Plan - Scott Smith
Bang the Drum Slowly - Mark Harris (very underrated sports film, great performance by DeNiro)
A History of Violence and Road To Perdition were both graphic novels that I had no idea about.

[Arthur Heath]

I just watched A History of Violence, again, yesterday. The movie has the same (basic) premise, not much else though. The GN is great, if you haven read it check it out. It was written by the same guy that (co-created) Judge Dredd, John Wagner.
A book to movie I really enjoyed was The Motorcycle Diaries. Originally written by Che Guevara.
One I would like to see pulled off is Orson Scott Cards Enders Game.

[RUBE]

I wish The Road would hurry-up and come out. Cormac McCarthy's book was awesome so there is little chance that it will be as good but these delays are killing me. I want to see this movie already.

[Spencer]

Watchmen's about to be on my shit list of worst adaption ever, right up there with The Firm.

[Django]

I wish The Road would hurry-up and come out. Cormac McCarthy's book was awesome so there is little chance that it will be as good but these delays are killing me. I want to see this movie already.

I love the novel too, and if Hillcoat does as good a job as he'd done with Proposition, I think the movie will be good as well. With Nick Cave and Warren Ellis doing the soundtrack and Viggo Mortensen as the lead, I think we're set for a good thing there.

[fernandito]

Watchmen's about to be on my shit list of worst adaption ever, right up there with The Firm.

Spoiler:

The squid thing, right?

[RUBE]

Watchmen's about to be on my shit list of worst adaption ever, right up there with The Firm.

Shouldn't you wait to actually watch the movie before you decide that? Maybe Snyder can pull it off without the

Spoiler:

"squid."

It doesn't have to be an exact replica of the original to be a good adaption.

[razz]

Starship Troopers- Starship Troopers- Robert A. Heinlen

[obscurejude]

Jurassic Park- Jurassic Park- Michael Chrichton

Having read the book five times before the movie was made, I was really impressed with what Spielberg pulled off. It was spectacular for that time.

[razz]

I loved both the book and the movie, but it seemed like the plot twist in the book (dinosaurs breeding) was added to the movie, but cut halfway through.