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Frequently, they actually start out as books.
A lot of best-sellers become hit movies, but which classic novels have made the greatest movies?
The practice of adapting movies from literary works is as old as movies itself.
A few years later, German filmmaker F.W.
The practice of cinematic adaptations of novels continued throughout the 20th century.
John Carter (2012)
Disneyhad high hopes for John Carter in 2012.
But the movie remains an endearing, and rather adorkable, rendition of Adams' cosmic and comic visions.
Schindler’s List (1993)
The horrors of World War 2 and the Holocaust was no fiction.
Nor was the story of Oskar Schindler, the German wartime industrialist who saved over 1,000 Jewish lives.
But few have been as lively, hilarious, and impeccably designed as Greta Gerwig’s acclaimed 2019 adaptation.
Dune (2021) and Dune: Part Two (2024)
Lisan al Gaib!
Both versions of Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas are hallucinogenic monuments to America’s disorienting excess.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
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Frankenstein (1931)
Mary Shelley is widely recognized for inventing the science fiction genre.
Die Hard (1988)
Yes.
One of the greatest and most violent action movies of all time is actually based on a book.
Truly, it isinconceivableto imagine a world without The Princess Bride.
The Lord of the Rings Series (2001-2003)
Decades after animated versions of J.R.R.
Pity those who have it all.
The ordeal inspires Deckard to begin questioning his own nature and reality.
Jurassic Park (1993)
Life, uh, finds a way.
Like the novel, the movie takes place in a soon-to-open theme park where dinosaurs have been scientifically resurrected.
Leave the gun, and take the cannoli.
(Another part of the deal: Benchley was given first crack at the screenplay.)
