Worst Book to Film adaptation ?

Mr E

Mirroring the 'Best Book....' thread, has anyone loved a book and found it completely butchered by Hollywood?

In recent memory, 'Along came a Spider' by James Patterson springs to mind....

In the book: Soneji survived at the end and went on for 2 more books. Both kids were kidnapped, and one of them died.

In the movie: Soneji was killed. Only one kid was kidnapped, and she didn't die.

- Dave.

Nemici

catch 22 for me.

although i wouldnt go as far as too say it was butchered but it just wrecked the picture I had in my head of yosarian and everybody else for that matter.

The book just seemed to have lots of layers and the movie was a bit one dimensional.

Byzantine

Yes catch 22 was a very very disappointing film.
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Clintons Cat

Judge Dredd
Dune

tman

Originally posted by Clintons Cat
Judge Dredd

book?
definitely the worst comic to screen adaption i've ever seen tho, sly taking the helmet off wtf?

the running man - the original stephen king (bachman) novel was brilliant, the film would have been alright if it stuck closer to the original story

Clintons Cat

yeah stretched the definition a little,definately warrents a place in a worst adaptation discussion though.

It was a real shame because without Stallones interference and script rewrites it could have been great,that ABC warrior (Hammerstein) robot roxxed.

Dredd Kissing Hershey FFS...

Agree with running man as i recall the book was very good, the film bore very little resemblence to it all.

tman

sorry about that, i'm in a bit of an anal mood today...
hopefully rebellion won't allow the next dredd film to stray from the original dredd character (if they ever greenlight it that is)

Kali

Sphere. great book. terrible film.
I'd second Dune also.

antwalsh

Battlefield Earth - L Ron Hubbard

Read the book years ago. It wasn't too bad. Quite good in the genre. But very big. Travolta had an impossible job making it into a movie. It would have needed to have been twice/three times as long to have been faithful.
That's the problem with a lot of bad book-film transfers. Some books just are impossible to get a film out of. All the little bits of the book are there on the screen but theres no space between them like in a book and it ends up a mess. In my example Travolta should have taken a small part of the book and concentrated on that.

irishgeo

the lost world.(Jurrasic Park)

i mean come on nowhere in the book does it mention the dinos getting to san diego.(It does mention them getting on to the mainland but only deep into the jungle.

they buthchered the second one.

the first was much better in regards to sticking to the book.