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

[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.

[malantha.livejournal.com]

more stephen king:

children of the corn (short story)
cujo
carrie
hearts in atlantis
secret window (novella)
the langoliers
salem's lot
the shining
christine
the running man
pet semetary
needful things
dreamcatcher

it (made for tv)
the stand (miniseries)

probably a ton more that i cant think of atm.. :P

[the-lady-aurora.livejournal.com]

Only a minor correction. The running man was Richard Bachman who was Stephen King :0) Film was okay. Book was the biggest load of tosh I've ever read.

[malantha.livejournal.com]

*nod* true.

i liked the book way more than the movie. but to be honest, i only got through about 15 minutes of the movie before i gave up on it. :)

[the-lady-aurora.livejournal.com]

I saw the movie and then read the book - which was probably the wrong way to do it. Now, I more often read the book first. 'tis the reason I have yet to watch Green Mile. The book blew me away and I'm reluctant to watch the film. Normally, film versions of Stephen King books suck way beyond suckiness.