To be fair that's because at this point there is no book.Game of Thrones
Starship Troopers
I am Legend. Only shares the most barebones plot. Movie was awful.
The short story "Quantum of Solace" is literally just Bond having dinner with a guy.
It's a short story, but Running Man was originally about a guy on the run anywhere in the entire world, who could be turned in by anyone for a reward.
This thread reminds me of Jodorowsky's Dune (2014). The Dune movie that was made is wildly different from the "Bible" Jodorowsky created. Though, I don't know how it differs from the book, having never read it. Interesting watch, nonetheless.
I'm surprised no one has posted the ur-example yet, Universal Pictures' Frankenstein (1934), which influenced the entire public's perception of the setting, and is not faithful at all to the source material except for the fact that Frankenstein wants to create life.
Nobody's suggested the recent Alice: Through The Looking Glass yet?
Not that it was a bad movie, it was much better than its prequel.
Its very good. Just keep in mind that the main theme of the book is that militant fascism = good. The movie satirized and ridiculed that concept. The book plays it straight.
I really don't think the movie is a parody of the book because they simply have so little in common beyond superficial elements and maybe 1 or 2 scenes that were lifted from the book. It's more like a parody of fascism with a thin coat of starship troopers paint over the top.
This thread reminds me of Jodorowsky's Dune (2014). The Dune movie that was made is wildly different from the "Bible" Jodorowsky created. Though, I don't know how it differs from the book, having never read it. Interesting watch, nonetheless.
The king has to be Lawnmower Man.
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Maybe the Wonka movie with Gene Wilder? I know the Johnny Depp version is closer to the book, but I haven't met anyone who preferred the new movie to the old.
Abraham Lincoln vampire hunter was not like the book even though the book and screen writer are one and the same. Loved the book. Movie was shit
Abraham Lincoln vampire hunter was not like the book even though the book and screen writer are one and the same. Loved the book. Movie was shit
the first book starts with him unconscious in the ocean. i think that's about it.Jason Bourne movies, basically the fact that he's a badass and forgetting who he is (I think he can't remember in the book, been a bit since I've read them).
Fight Club
Palahniuk has even said in interviews it is a massive improvement
On that subject:
The Prestige.
Aside from being about dueling magicians, almost nothing is the same, and there is FAR more Sci-Fi/Fantasy elements.
Though as with Fight Club, the author has said that the movie is better than his own work.
Philip K Dick, the thread.