Good Books That Have Been Turned Into Great Films

[petros]

Like the original Jawa, whick is Brill, imho

[petros]

Sorry, that should read JAWS

[2 Smokin Barrels]

Petros

What about crap books made into crap films?



or rather dull books made into average films?

or

Films that didn't start as books?



Or books that started as fims?

There's no end really

[supaspark]

You on thr beer Petros?

[douglasr]

2001 (Arthur C Clarke)
The Godfather (Mario Puzo)
Catch 22 (Joseph Heller)

Loads more that escape me for now...

[speedtwelve]

'The Right Stuff' by Tom Wolfe. Favourite book, favourite movie, one of the main reasons I ended up flying aeroplanes for a living (not quite being an astronaut but closer than your average office worker will get...)

ST

[princeperch]

Fight Club

[JagLover]

Lord of the Rings

[mrs trackside]

Sphere by Michael Crichton. The film wasn't a GREAT film, but it's the nearest I've come to reading a book and the film being pretty close to how I imagined it.

[Rude-boy]

The Day of the Jackal ( the original one)- it wasn't a totally faithful to the book as that would have been impossible but it was a very good film.

[Alfa Male]

Rude-boy said:

The Day of the Jackal ( the original one)- it wasn't a totally faithful to the book as that would have been impossible but it was a very good film.

Agree! Must have DVD

[scorp]

The Shining, although many differences exist between book and film. Good film and good book though.

[blindswelledrat]

green mile, shawshank redemption and misery all by stephen king.
touching the void
cant think of more

[Li'l pugs]

Shawshank Redemption deffo.
Started off as a short story in a book of short stories by Stephen King. Was originally called Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption.


Paul

[mrmaggit]

Great Expectations, the David Lean version (with John (sorry Sir John) Mills.

[Mrs Trackside]

blindswelledrat said:

green mile, shawshank redemption and misery all by stephen king. touching the void cant think of more

Oh yes, Misery was a good book AND a good film. I put that down to Cathy Bates portrayal being veeeeery convincing.

[Twincam16]

'Wiseguy', by Nicholas Pilleggi, which became Goodfellas. OK, so it was based on real events, but a lot of films get those wrong too (see other thread).

Thought J.J. Connolly's Layer Cake was well filmed as well.

[petros]

BRANDY actually!!!

[planetdave]

Stalker - though the book is Roadside Picnic.

Andrei Tarkovski was a genius.

[DanBoy]

Misery.

And I also liked 1984, although I preferred the book, and the film pretty much assumes you've read the book anyway.