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- The Godfather (Mario Puzo) £9.99. Buy the Godfather trilogy at Amazon. Film: 1972. Director: Francis Ford Coppola. Mario Puzo himself assisted on the screenplay for Coppola’s classic.
- The Silence Of The Lambs (Thomas Harris) £5.68. Buy the movie at Amazon. Film: 1991. Director: Jonathan Demme. That The Silence of the Lambs is a great movie goes without saying – it won the Big Five (best film; best director; best actor/actress and best writing) at the Oscars.
- To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee) £4.99. Buy the movie at Amazon. Film: 1962. Director: Robert Mulligan. If Harper Lee’s epoch-defining novel is about tolerance and compassion in the face of hatred and violence, then Robert Mulligan’s adaptation has it spot on.
- Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk) £3.00. Buy the movie at Amazon. Film: 1999. Director: David Fincher. Critics often attack Hollywood for castrating a book’s central premise or diluting its message so as to garner a bigger audience.
- Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ Lew Wallace.
- Twelve Angry Men Reginald Rose.
- The African Queen C.S. Forester.
- A Night to Remember Walter Lord.
- Happy Birthday, Wanda June
- Slaughterhouse-Five
- Who Am I This time?
- Harrison Bergeron
- Mother Night
- Breakfast of Champions
Based on the 1970 play by Vonnegut, Mark Robson’s 1971 film adaptation is more theatrical than cinematic. It follows a hunter who returns from the Amazon Rainforest to find that his life has changed. His ideas of masculinity are threatened by the people he sees around him, undermining his patriarchal mindset. It opens with the ominous lines: “This ...
The most famous adaptation of any of Vonnegut’s writings, George Roy Hill’s 1972 sci-fi film, was an admirable attempt at capturing the source material’s brilliance. It starred Michael Sacks as Billy Pilgrim, a man who comes unstuck in time and no longer experiences his existence in a conventional way. Hill’s film won the Jury Prize at the Cannes F...
The fourth episode of the television series American Playhouse, Who Am I This Time?is a commendable adaptation of Vonnegut’s eponymous 1961 short story. It stars Christopher Walken as a hardware store clerk who is an excellent actor but is terribly anti-social off the stage. Demme recalled his entry into the film industry, “My dream was to be a vet...
Set in a dystopian future, Pittman’s film adaptation presents Vonnegut’s vision of an alternate America where the authoritarian government forces people to wear headsets to decrease their mental capacities. However, things get complicated when it is discovered that a young man is still capable of intellectual activity. Filmed in Canada as a televis...
Mother Nightis a romantic war drama that stars Nick Nolte as a recurring character in Vonnegut’s works: Howard W. Campbell, Jr. He is an American who becomes a high-ranking official in the propaganda ministry of the Nazi party. While the film received mixed reviews, Nolte was praised for his brilliant portrayal of a complicated character. Gordon sa...
This 1999 adaptation of Vonnegut’s best novel proved to be a critical and commercial failure, but it remains relevant due to the fantastic source material. The film stars Bruce Willis as a car salesman who tries to commit suicide daily. While referring to the adaptation, Vonnegut described it as “painful to watch.” In an interview, Rudolph stated: ...
Aug 19, 2024 · Here are the 30 best book-to-movie adaptations ever made, from classics like 'To Kill a Mockingbird' to series like 'The Hunger Games' to recent hits like 'Dune.'.
Apr 21, 2022 · From adaptions like Netflix’s recent Anatomy of a Scandal, based on Sarah Vaughan’s best-selling novel, to an upcoming take on Sally Rooney ‘s Conversations With Friends on Hulu, readers eager to...
Mar 3, 2021 · Here, we've gathered a list of the 15 highest-grossing book-to-film adaptations based on the cumulative box office figures for each franchise. If the list were full of selects based on...
Sep 10, 2024 · Save your evening from the endless scroll with our edit of the best book-to-film adaptations. These are the movies that we think live up to their source material, and the books that are more than good enough to read even if you already love the films that inspired them.
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