Hm. So, my thoughts have drifted to this question:

[conuly]

How many books, exactly, have been made into movies?

*thinks*

Books
The Neverending Story
Princess Bride
LotR
Harry Potter (series)
Peter Pan
Princess Diaries
Ella Enchanted
Wrinkle in Time
Wizard of Oz
The Little Princess
The Secret Garden
Girl with a Pearl Earing
Seabiscuit
Rabbit-Proof Fence
Alice in Wonderland
James Bond (apparently)
Chitty chitty bang bang
I, Claudius
The Oddessy
Possession
The Hours
Joy Luck Club
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
Dead Poets Society
Master and Commander
The Prince and the Pauper
A Christmas Carol
Les Miserables
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Jungle Book
Strip Tease
Silence of the Lambs/Hannibal
The Shawshank Redemption
Mary Poppins
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
Pollyanna

Fairy Tales
Cinderella
Snow White
Sleeping Beauty
Little Mermaid
King Arthur
Robin Hood
Thumbellina
Beauty and the Beast


I know I'm missing several. Help?

Comments

[thetwistedsista.livejournal.com]

Alice In Wonderland
The James Bond books
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (by the same author as the James Bond books)
That's all I can think of at the moment, but it's been a heck of a lot!

[conuly]

Added

[madbard.livejournal.com]

I'm smiling because you don't realize the magnitude by which your list is too small.

Huge numbers of films are based on books; this is one of the most common sources of story ideas for films. (I'm not referring to books made from films here, but real actual book type books.) I could just rattle off a few off the top of my head and I wouldn't be more than scratching the surface. Joy Luck Club, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Dead Poets Society, Master and Commander / Far Side of the World, any Dickens movie, Strip Tease and the other movies made by that South Florida writer guy whatshisname, Silence of the Lambs / Hannibal ... the list goes on and on and on.

[conuly]

I'm smiling because you don't realize the magnitude by which your list is too small

Actually, I do, but I didn't want to spend too long on it. See, the less I put up, the more comments I get. Ah, commentwhoring.

Though I didn't know any of these.

*adds these*

[feathered.livejournal.com]

Are these only kid's books? Or any book? Do made for TV movies count, or is it just feature ones you're considering? There are tons and tons of books in general... The two that I've seen most recently are The Hours and Posession. The Hours was about as good as it could have been, coming from such a wandering book, but Posession made me want to weep with horror and despair. Love the book, but the movie couldn't have been worse. I'd try to think of more, but just mentioning that movie has made my brain shut down to avoid the overwhelming sorrow of it all.

[conuly]

Any book, and only made for TV movies if they're good. *adds those two*

[eofs.livejournal.com]

James Bond (apparently)

There's no apparently about it ;0) Ian Fleming was their author.

LA Confidential, The Green Mile, Apt Pupil, Stand By Me (those are from novellas but I figure if you'll take Shawshank...) Lord of the Flies, 1984, All Quiet on the Western Front, Regeneration, Minority Report (I believe - any number of Philip K Dick books have been adapted,)Dogville, erm...

Pick a Disney film, any Disney film (just about ;0)

[eofs.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, the book for Stand By Me is called The Body.

Good lord, this could be a long list

[moggymania.livejournal.com]

The Black Stallion
The Black Stallion Returns
Misty of Chincoteague (I think...)
National Velvet
(Come to think of it, most children's horse books have been turned into a movie, it's just that I can't remember most of them!)
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? (movie "Bladerunner")
We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (movie "Total Recall")

Other comment-generating post ideas would be "what books would you like to see made into movies" or "what was the most pathetic movie adatpation of a book you've ever encountered"... ;-)

Re: Good lord, this could be a long list

[moggymania.livejournal.com]

Immortality, Inc. (movie "Freejack")

[literalgirl.livejournal.com]

Yay for everyone getting the Philip K Dick short stories! :-)

Piers Anthony did a novel of Total Recall after the movie came out, too!

Anne of Green Gables comes to mind...

Since they are not alphabetized, I may have just missed these, but of course the classics Frankenstein and Dracula. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (soon to be a movie AGAIN!). Legend of Sleepy Hollow... Fahrenheit 451, Apocalypse Now, The Secret Sharer, The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe (TV movies have been made and there is a feature film in production), The Hobbit, Watership Down, The Borrowers, The Phantom Tollbooth, Flatland, Jurassic Park, Timeline, Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park, Sphere, Rising Sun, Disclosure, Lord of the Flies...

Do movie from comic origins count? Ton of those out there, too. :-)

I think I am worn out. Sorry if I listed any you already had...

[eofs.livejournal.com]

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (soon to be a movie AGAIN!)

Filming currently going on just down the road from me *grins*

More Dahl... The BFG, The Witches, Matilda, James and the Giant Peach and Danny, Champion of the World.

Rebecca was a book right? Dr Jekyll and Mister Hyde (I'm sure that must have been filmed.) The Time Machine.

[literalgirl.livejournal.com]

Sigh. Forgot my beloved Deaver story: The Bone Collector.

:-)

[spitefairy.livejournal.com]

Mists of Avalon

[the-lady-aurora.livejournal.com]

Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spyder by James Patterson. Eyes of Prey by John Sandford. Love Story and Oliver's Story by Erich Segal. Any Jackie Collins novel in particular The Stud and The Bitch. Wired:the Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi by Bob Woodward. I seem to remember reading Star Wars novels at school before the film was made so I guess they came first. The Red Shoes (1940s?) by Hans Christian Anderson.

Boy, you don't ask much, do you?

[marveen.livejournal.com]

This is clockwise around the room, and I'm letting you fill in the authors yourself:
Phar Lap
Clan of the Cave Bear
The Handmaid's Tale (I think)
All Quiet on the Western Front
Thirty Seconds over Tokyo (I think)
Does the Ten Commandments count?
The Once and Future King
The Serpent and the Rainbow
I, Robot (butchered, but the book was first)
Incredible Journey
Something Wicked This Way Comes
The Dog Who Wouldn't Be (I think)
Never Cry Wolf
Shogun
The Three Musketeers
The Man in the Iron Mask
Beau Geste
Cheaper by the Dozen (once well, once recently 8P)
Bank Shot
All the Sherlock Holmes stories
2001: a Space Odyssey
2010
Ivanhoe
The Black Arrow
Les Miserables
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Royal Flash
A Night to Remember
Heart of Darkness
Born on the Fourth of July
The Fly
A shipload of Poe stuff, though not usually adapted very well
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
Wyrd Sisters
Dune
The Amityville Horror
The Were-wolf of Paris
Hill House
Hell House
Two in the Bush (Foreign production)
Phantom of the Opera
Lord of the Flies
The Killer Angels
Has anyone mentioned Anne Rice yet?
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Strangers on a Train
Ripley's Game
Beowulf
Eaters of the Dead
A lot of Zane Grey that I don't remember
White Fang
The Call of the Wild

That's all there are that I can remember being made into movies in this room. Good luck with your eternal project--

Re: Boy, you don't ask much, do you?

[marveen.livejournal.com]

Dammit, I totally skipped over an entire shelf.

Bid Time Return
I Am Legend
What Dreams May Come
A Stir of Echoes
Gormenghast
The Viking
Last of the Mohicans
Tom Sawyer &c.
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Watership Down

Dig! Dig! Dig deeper into your mind!

[velvetchamber.livejournal.com]

*Wails in anguish*

Sherlock Holmes!
Agatha Christie!
1984,
2001: A Space Odyssey,
Apocalypse Now (based on Joseph Conrad's A Heart of Darkness),
Ben-Hur,
Catch 22,
Clockwork Orange
Dances with Wolves,
Death of a Salesman
Dracula, (I know that someone mentioned it, but I can't skip it)
East of Eden,
Fried Green Tomatoes,
Gone with the Wind,
Interview with the Vampire, (and sadly) Queen of the Damned (only it was not so much by the book, and it was a mutilation too... Akasha was supposed to be white as marble! *whine*)
Legends of the Fall
Les Miserables
Lolita,
Murders at the Rue Morgue,
One flew over the Cuckoo's nest,
Psycho
Streetcar named Desire,
The Bridges of Madison Country,
The Colour Purple,
The Exorcist,
The Graduate,
The Grapes of Wrath,
The Horse Whisperer
The House of the Spirits,
The last of the Mohicans
The Man in the Iron Mask,
The Three musketeers
To Kill a Mockingbird
Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf


And some films from here:

101 Reykjavík,
Djöflaeyjan
Englar Alheimsins,
Úngfrúin góða og húsið,
Útlaginn.

[minkhollow]

Hmm, seems no one's mentioned Soul Music yet.
Also, Firestarter (READ THE BOOK. The movie ruins the ending). And according to my memory of the credits, 10 Dalmatians.

[minkhollow]

*101 Dalmatians, even. Can't type today.

[catsluvdmb.livejournal.com]

According to IMDB (http://us.imdb.com/List?tv=on&&keywords=based-on-novel&&heading=19;based-on-novel) there are 20,545 movies based off of novels.

[wakasplat.livejournal.com]

Does Ella Enchanted *really* count? ;-)

I had to practically *force* someone to read the book after she'd been repulsed by a preview of the movie (which has a plot that has nearly nothing to do with the book except the names of the characters and a couple plot points). *Great* book, especially for anyone who's been through ABA. <grin> Awful movie.

[fjorab-teke.livejournal.com]

The Black Stallion
The Black Stallion Returns

[thetwistedsista.livejournal.com]

Alice In Wonderland
The James Bond books
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (by the same author as the James Bond books)
That's all I can think of at the moment, but it's been a heck of a lot!

[conuly]

Added

[madbard.livejournal.com]

I'm smiling because you don't realize the magnitude by which your list is too small.

Huge numbers of films are based on books; this is one of the most common sources of story ideas for films. (I'm not referring to books made from films here, but real actual book type books.) I could just rattle off a few off the top of my head and I wouldn't be more than scratching the surface. Joy Luck Club, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Dead Poets Society, Master and Commander / Far Side of the World, any Dickens movie, Strip Tease and the other movies made by that South Florida writer guy whatshisname, Silence of the Lambs / Hannibal ... the list goes on and on and on.

[conuly]

I'm smiling because you don't realize the magnitude by which your list is too small

Actually, I do, but I didn't want to spend too long on it. See, the less I put up, the more comments I get. Ah, commentwhoring.

Though I didn't know any of these.

*adds these*

[feathered.livejournal.com]

Are these only kid's books? Or any book? Do made for TV movies count, or is it just feature ones you're considering? There are tons and tons of books in general... The two that I've seen most recently are The Hours and Posession. The Hours was about as good as it could have been, coming from such a wandering book, but Posession made me want to weep with horror and despair. Love the book, but the movie couldn't have been worse. I'd try to think of more, but just mentioning that movie has made my brain shut down to avoid the overwhelming sorrow of it all.

[conuly]

Any book, and only made for TV movies if they're good. *adds those two*

[eofs.livejournal.com]

James Bond (apparently)

There's no apparently about it ;0) Ian Fleming was their author.

LA Confidential, The Green Mile, Apt Pupil, Stand By Me (those are from novellas but I figure if you'll take Shawshank...) Lord of the Flies, 1984, All Quiet on the Western Front, Regeneration, Minority Report (I believe - any number of Philip K Dick books have been adapted,)Dogville, erm...

Pick a Disney film, any Disney film (just about ;0)

[eofs.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, the book for Stand By Me is called The Body.

Good lord, this could be a long list

[moggymania.livejournal.com]

The Black Stallion
The Black Stallion Returns
Misty of Chincoteague (I think...)
National Velvet
(Come to think of it, most children's horse books have been turned into a movie, it's just that I can't remember most of them!)
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? (movie "Bladerunner")
We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (movie "Total Recall")

Other comment-generating post ideas would be "what books would you like to see made into movies" or "what was the most pathetic movie adatpation of a book you've ever encountered"... ;-)

Re: Good lord, this could be a long list

[moggymania.livejournal.com]

Immortality, Inc. (movie "Freejack")

[literalgirl.livejournal.com]

Yay for everyone getting the Philip K Dick short stories! :-)

Piers Anthony did a novel of Total Recall after the movie came out, too!

Anne of Green Gables comes to mind...

Since they are not alphabetized, I may have just missed these, but of course the classics Frankenstein and Dracula. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (soon to be a movie AGAIN!). Legend of Sleepy Hollow... Fahrenheit 451, Apocalypse Now, The Secret Sharer, The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe (TV movies have been made and there is a feature film in production), The Hobbit, Watership Down, The Borrowers, The Phantom Tollbooth, Flatland, Jurassic Park, Timeline, Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park, Sphere, Rising Sun, Disclosure, Lord of the Flies...

Do movie from comic origins count? Ton of those out there, too. :-)

I think I am worn out. Sorry if I listed any you already had...

[eofs.livejournal.com]

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (soon to be a movie AGAIN!)

Filming currently going on just down the road from me *grins*

More Dahl... The BFG, The Witches, Matilda, James and the Giant Peach and Danny, Champion of the World.

Rebecca was a book right? Dr Jekyll and Mister Hyde (I'm sure that must have been filmed.) The Time Machine.

[literalgirl.livejournal.com]

Sigh. Forgot my beloved Deaver story: The Bone Collector.

:-)

[spitefairy.livejournal.com]

Mists of Avalon

[the-lady-aurora.livejournal.com]

Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spyder by James Patterson. Eyes of Prey by John Sandford. Love Story and Oliver's Story by Erich Segal. Any Jackie Collins novel in particular The Stud and The Bitch. Wired:the Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi by Bob Woodward. I seem to remember reading Star Wars novels at school before the film was made so I guess they came first. The Red Shoes (1940s?) by Hans Christian Anderson.

Boy, you don't ask much, do you?

[marveen.livejournal.com]

This is clockwise around the room, and I'm letting you fill in the authors yourself:
Phar Lap
Clan of the Cave Bear
The Handmaid's Tale (I think)
All Quiet on the Western Front
Thirty Seconds over Tokyo (I think)
Does the Ten Commandments count?
The Once and Future King
The Serpent and the Rainbow
I, Robot (butchered, but the book was first)
Incredible Journey
Something Wicked This Way Comes
The Dog Who Wouldn't Be (I think)
Never Cry Wolf
Shogun
The Three Musketeers
The Man in the Iron Mask
Beau Geste
Cheaper by the Dozen (once well, once recently 8P)
Bank Shot
All the Sherlock Holmes stories
2001: a Space Odyssey
2010
Ivanhoe
The Black Arrow
Les Miserables
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Royal Flash
A Night to Remember
Heart of Darkness
Born on the Fourth of July
The Fly
A shipload of Poe stuff, though not usually adapted very well
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
Wyrd Sisters
Dune
The Amityville Horror
The Were-wolf of Paris
Hill House
Hell House
Two in the Bush (Foreign production)
Phantom of the Opera
Lord of the Flies
The Killer Angels
Has anyone mentioned Anne Rice yet?
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Strangers on a Train
Ripley's Game
Beowulf
Eaters of the Dead
A lot of Zane Grey that I don't remember
White Fang
The Call of the Wild

That's all there are that I can remember being made into movies in this room. Good luck with your eternal project--

Re: Boy, you don't ask much, do you?

[marveen.livejournal.com]

Dammit, I totally skipped over an entire shelf.

Bid Time Return
I Am Legend
What Dreams May Come
A Stir of Echoes
Gormenghast
The Viking
Last of the Mohicans
Tom Sawyer &c.
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Watership Down