Movies you didn't know were based on books!

Submitted by Emily on September 30, 2011 - 10:22am

Fresh City Life at Central is presenting The Bad Seed as a part of their film series this month and it made me think about other movies that I did not realize were based on books. Here are some others that I hadn't realized were inspired by novels:

Adaptation (The Orchid Thief)
The 13th Warrior (Eaters of the Dead)
Big Fish
A Christmas Story (In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash)
The Commitments
Crash
Derailed
Die Hard (Nothing Lasts Forever)
Remo Williams the Adventure Begins (The New Destroyer: Killer Ratings)
Field of Dreams (Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa)
A River Runs Through It
Munich (Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (Bodies Are Where You Find Them)
Silence of the Lambs
Stand By Me (Fall From Innocence: The Body)
The Social Network (The Accidental Billionaires)
The Men Who Stare at Goats

Can you think of any movies that you later found out were books?

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Comments

Submitted by Laurie. on October 12, 2011 - 10:21am.

Fun blog post ! At dinner we came up with the following titles: Slumdog Millionaire (Q&A by Vikas Swarup), Not Easily Broken (T.D. Jakes), and Precious (Push by Sapphire).

Submitted by Anonymous on October 7, 2011 - 12:49am.

Spider (with Ralph Fiennes)
The Shipping News
The Reader
Whale Rider

Submitted by Anonymous on October 21, 2011 - 1:44pm.

Based on short stories:

E Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain
Stephen King's The Body (the movie is Stand by Me)

Submitted by Anonymous on October 21, 2011 - 1:45pm.

oops you already got Stand By Me

Submitted by Anonymous on December 2, 2011 - 4:04pm.

The Green Mile by Stephen King

Submitted by Emily on December 2, 2011 - 4:08pm.

good call,
how about Kiss of the Spider Woman, or total recall, the list could just go on and on!