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

[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*

[feathered.livejournal.com]

Oh, a bookmovie that I actually liked was Wonder Boys. Have not read the book yet, sadly.

High Fidelity and About a Boy were both based on books by the same author. I'm going to see Girl With a Pearl Earing soon, but I doubt it'll be much good, I just like Scarlett Johansson. Seabiscuit was a bookmovie. It might be impossible to list all of the bookmovies because there are so many.

[conuly]

I don't know the meaning of the word impossible! Or dictionary, apparently :)

*adds those books*

*only adds some because she can't remember very much right now and the baby's crying*

[feathered.livejournal.com]

Beauty and the Beast was a fairy tale before being disneyfied.

Most everything Shakespeare has been made into movies, but I don't know if plays count. And there are SO many Jane Austen movies! And Jane Eyre. And Wuthering Heights. And Rebecca and various Dickens stuff.

[conuly]

I'd rather not have plays, they don't have to be adapted as much as books. Which stuff by Dickens or Jane Austen?

[feathered.livejournal.com]

David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations. (There *is* a movie form of Great Expectations, isn't there? I have very clear pictures of it in my head, but I can't remember exactly if it really exists and I can't be bothered to look it up.) Mansfield Park, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma -- which has actually been the inspiration of two movies, Emma proper and Clueless -- Persuasion, Northanger Abbey.

Hmm. Fight Club was originally a book.