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Episode 391
Book to Movie/TV Adaptations
In this episode, we discuss book adaptations: the good, the bad, the should, and the please don’t. Whether you believe the book is always better than the film or if you prefer to watch the movie before reading the source material (like Jamie and Harry Potter), this conversation will give you plenty to add to your movie queue and must-reads list.
In this episode, we discuss book adaptations: the good, the bad, the should, and the please don’t. Whether you believe the book is always better than the film or if you prefer to watch the movie before reading the source material (like Jamie and Harry Potter), this conversation will give you plenty to add to your movie queue and must-reads list.
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- Cruella trailer | book: The One Hundred And One Dalmatians (1956)
- Fact check: Stephen King hated Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining
- Side road: Jurassic Park: 7 Difference Between The Book And the Movie
- The Great Gatsby: book | movie (2013)
- High Fidelity: book | movie | tv series
- The Lovely Bones: book | movie
- Annihilation: book | movie
- No Country For Old Men: book | movie
- Soundtracks and scores that elevate adaptations: Memoirs of a Geisha | Into the Wild | The Social Network | Gone Girl | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- Friday Night Lights: book | movie | tv series
- Big Little Lies: book | tv series
- Watchmen: book series | movie | tv series
- Things we want to be movies: A Confederacy of Dunces | A Separate Peace | The Secret History | The Fortunate Ones | American Wife | Greek Mythology Cinematic Universe | One Hundred Years of Solitude | Their Eyes Were Watching God | a gritty Where’s Waldo
- President portrayals: Billy Bob Torton in Love Actually | John Travolta in True Colors
- Books we don’t want to be adapted: The Night Circus | Girl, | Paradise Lost | Love You Forever | Catcher in the Rye
- Odds and Ends: Glynnon Doyle memoir to be adapted for a tv series | Rosanne Barr “sings” the national anthem (risky click of the day)
- Look at all our green light books! Many of these are being adapted, which just proves we have incredible taste in books, you guys.
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