Bringing a book to screen is no easy feat, but sometimes they get it (mostly) right.
Gone Girl (2014)
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Nick Dunne's wife Amy goes missing, leading to police investigations and media frenzies that cause...
American Psycho (2000)
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A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his...
City Of God (2002)
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The streets of the world's most notorious slum, Rio de Janeiro's City of God, are a place where...
The Godfather
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Tyrant, blackmailer, racketeer, murderer - his influence reaches every level of American society....
Room (2015)
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Held captive for years in an enclosed space, a woman (Brie Larson) and her young son (Jacob...
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Some of the best TV shows of 2017 were based on books and as the New Year rolls around we can look forward to a whole host of new adaptations.
Watership Down
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A phenomenal worldwide bestseller for over forty years, Richard Adams' spellbinding classic...
The Little Drummer Girl
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In this enthralling and thought-provoking novel of Middle Eastern intrigue, Charlie, a brilliant and...
The City & The City
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When the body of a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary, decaying city of Bes el, somewhere...
The War of the Worlds
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The Penguin English Library Edition of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells 'Death!' I shouted....
Sharp Objects
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Some scars never heal ...An addictive thriller from the author of the mega bestseller GONE GIRL....
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Prequels, Sequels, Remakes and Adaptations
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The majority of films now seem to be prequels, sequels, remakes or adaptations - come here to...
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The Shape of Thought: How Mental Adaptations Evolve
Book
The Shape of Thought: How Mental Adaptations Evolve presents a road map for an evolutionary...
Doctor Who - The Novel Adaptations: Original Sin
Ken Bentley, Andy Lane, John Dorney and Tom Newsom
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On 30th Century Earth, the Doctor and Bernice Summerfield encounter the Adjudicator Roz Forrester...
Marvel Comics into Film: Essays on Adaptations Since the 1940s
Matthew J. McEniry, Robert Moses Peaslee and Robert G. Weiner
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Marvel Studios' approach to its Cinematic Universe-beginning with the release of Iron Man (2008)-has...
The Evolution of Memory Systems: Ancestors, Anatomy, and Adaptations
Steven P. Wise, Elisabeth A. Murray and Kim S. Graham
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Current theories about human memory have been shaped by clinical observations and animal...
Legumes Under Environmental Stress: Yield, Improvement and Adaptations
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Leguminous crops have been found to contribute almost 27% of the world s primary crop production....
Screen Adaptations and the Politics of Childhood: Transforming Children's Literature into Film: 2016
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In seeing adaptation as a dialogic process that results in an intricate web of intertextuality, this...