List of the hardest novels to film


	List of the hardest novels to film

filmmaven

10-27-2007 1:29 AM

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11-13-2007 7:08 PM

seaj11

I haven't seen "The Stand" miniseries, but from reading the book, I would have to add it to this list as well.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/016fed11-f3af-4f5b-af28-2144ba3c0944/483C8629-8C1B-4D39-9337-53E030780330/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.screenhead.com/reviews/the-unfilmables-a-list-of-the-hardest-novels-to-film/" href="http://www.screenhead.com/reviews/the-unfilmables-a-list-of-the-hardest-novels-to-film/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.screenhead.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.screenhead.com/reviews/the-unfilmables-a-list-of-the-hardest-novels-to-film/"><P ndPar="[object Object]">While many novels can be almost directly translated to screen, especially pre-20th century novels such as Jane Austen’s gossip columns, more recent novels can prove difficult. There have been bad novels turned into good films (pretty much everything Hitchcock Made, <EM>The Godfather</EM>), and plenty of dull adaptations of good books (<EM>Dune</EM>, <A href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096332/"><EM>The Unbearable Bore of Being in a Cinema to Watch This</EM></A>). There’s also a few oddities, such as <EM>Adaptation</EM>, Charlie Kaufman’s bizarre self-referential adaptation of ‘The Orchid Thief’. But despite the film industry’s frenzy in snapping up adaptation rights, there remains a few novels many fear.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.screenhead.com/reviews/the-unfilmables-a-list-of-the-hardest-novels-to-film/"><table background="" bgcolor=""><tr><TD><H2 id="post-727"><A title="Permanent Link: The Unfilmables: A List of the Hardest Novels to Film" href="http://www.screenhead.com/reviews/the-unfilmables-a-list-of-the-hardest-novels-to-film/" rel="bookmark">The Unfilmables: A List of the Hardest Novels to Film</A></H2><SMALL>January 11th, 2007 by eoin in <A title="View all posts in Directors" href="http://www.screenhead.com/reviews/category/directors/" rel="category tag">Directors</A>, <A title="View all posts in Movies" href="http://www.screenhead.com/reviews/category/movies/" rel="category tag">Movies</A> </SMALL></TD></tr></table></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/483C8629-8C1B-4D39-9337-53E030780330/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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