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.

[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]

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*

[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.

[madbard.livejournal.com]

I think it would be easier (and perhaps more interesting) to make a list of movies that aren't from books.

[conuly]

Nah, I'm too lazy.

[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.

[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)

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"... ;-)

[eofs.livejournal.com]

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

Re: Good lord, this could be a long list

[moggymania.livejournal.com]

Immortality, Inc. (movie "Freejack")

[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

[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...

[literalgirl.livejournal.com]

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

:-)

[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.

[spitefairy.livejournal.com]

Mists of Avalon

[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.

[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.

[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. :)