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New Post 10/30/2008 1:50 AM
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2007 List of Books to Movies  
Modified By MrGlasses  on 11/1/2008 11:14:36 PM)

2007

Next - Movie Info - Book Info

The Namesake - Movie Info - Book Info

The Shooter - Movie Info - Book Info

Martian Child - Movie Info - Book Info

Beowulf - Movie Info - Book Info

The Golden Compass - Movie Info - Book Info

The Kite Runner - Movie Info - Book Info

P. S. I Love You - Movie Info - Book Info

Persepolis - Movie Info - Book Info

The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep - Movie Info - Book Info

The Seeker: The Dark is Rising - Movie Info - Book Info

December Boys - Movie Info - Book Info

Becoming Jane - Movie Info - Book Info

Stardust - Movie Info - Book Info

The Nanny Diaries - Movie Info - Book Info

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - Movie Info - Book Info

Bridge to Terabithia - Movie Info - Book Info

A Day with Wilbur Robinson - Movie Info - Book Info

1408 - Movie Info - Book Info

3:10 to Yuma - Movie Info - Book Info

30 Days of Night - Movie Info - Book Info

300 - Movie Info - Book Info

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - Movie Info - Book Info

Atonement - Movie Info - Book Info

Blood and Chocolate - Movie Info - Book Info

The Bourne Ultimatum - Movie Info - Book Info

Charlie Wilson's War - Movie Info - Book Info

The Death and Life of Bobby Z - Movie Info - Book Info

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Movie Info - Book Info

Evening - Movie Info - Book Info

Freedom Writers - Movie Info - Book Info

Gone Baby Gone - Movie Info - Book Info

Hannibal Rising - Movie Info - Book Info

I Am Legend - Movie Info - Book Info

Into the Wild - Movie Info - Book Info

The Invisible - Movie Info - Book Info

Last Legion - Movie Info - Book Info

The Last Sin Eater - Movie Info - Book Info

A Mighty Heart - Movie Info - Book Info

Snow Angels - Movie Info - Book Info

There Will Be Blood - Movie Info - Book Info

Virgin Territory - Movie Info - Book Info

Zodiac - Movie Info - Book Info

Nancy Drew - Movie Info - Book Info

Arthur et les Minimoys - Movie Info - Book Info

No Country for Old Men - Movie Info - Book Info

Love in the Time of Cholera - Movie Info - Book Info

The Mist - Movie Info - Book Info

Starting Out in the Evening - Movie Info - Book Info

Chronicles of an Escape - Movie Info - Book Info

The Girl Next Door - Movie Info - Book Info

Reservation Road - Movie Info - Book Info

Wristcutters: A Love Story - Movie Info - Book Info

O Jerusalem! - Movie Info - Book Info

Fierce People - Movie Info - Book Info

The Inner Life of Martin Frost - Movie Info - Book Info

Silk - Movie Info - Book Info

The Jane Austen Book Club - Movie Info - Book Info

Feast of Love - Movie Info - Book Info

Arctic Tale - Movie Info - Book Info

The Hottest State - Movie Info - Book Info

Death Sentence - Movie Info - Book Info

The Devil and Daniel Webster - Movie Info - Book Info

Day Watch - Movie Info - Book Info

Away from Her - Movie Info - Book Info

 
New Post 10/30/2008 7:41 AM
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Re: Lastest Books to Movies 

Out of interest, do you think the movie makers do a good job of migrating a book to screen ?

I've read most of Bernard Cornwell's 'Sharpe' series, I know TV especially is limited to budgets but they did them no justice on screen...

The only books or shorts I can think of that transfered well are Stephen King's Misery and Secret Window.

 
New Post 11/1/2008 6:56 PM
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Re: Lastest Books to Movies 

Great movies! I also thought the nightmare and dreamscapes were also well done for TV.

What I could see being difficult for the film maker is having the task of cramming a whole book into just a little over an hour.

Scripts are written for the screen, where a book is obvioiusly not. But that doesn't mean it can't work!! For it to work I would think the producer/director would have to be a real fan of the work, this way they would be able to carefully choose the pivital points that would move the story/message along... I bet some if not most of the of them aren't fans at all, their drive might be the $$ alone. Sad, but very true.

 
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