What films based on books did you have such high hopes for...

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Only to find they let you down?

Now I know fms based on books never really live up to it but some just change things so much, you may as well have created a brand new film.

Mine is Miss Peregrines home for peculiar children

@StoorieHoose I echo your thoughts exactly re The Long Walk. One of my favourites and there is no way any adaptation will do it justice.

Both His Dark Materials And Time Travelers Wife are being redone for TV, the former by the BBC and the latter by HBO I have high hopes for both

I had no idea about this, I love His Dark Materials, it's one of the few book series I've sobbed over. I also sobbed at the film, but for very different reasons.

A wrinkle in time is a book?

I think this is the only film I’ve ever switched off without finding out that happens at the end.

I turned it off after 30 minutes. Was so shite

I actually thought the film of The Time Traveler's Wife was OK. I found the novel enjoyable but rather self-indulgent in places. There were too many scenes that read like an adolescent's fantasy (e.g. where Henry helps Claire take revenge on the student who'd assaulted her) and far too many references to Claire's red hair. Much of what the film cut out hadn't added much to the novel, in my view. However, the ending of the novel was better.

@captainprincess I’m hoping it stays in development and doesn’t see the light of day!

@IceRebel

Currently filming in Cardiff and due next year

Info here :

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt5607976/fullcredits/cast?ref=mmttcllsc

Cast includes Ruth Wilson, James McAvoy and Lin Manuel Miranda

@Soubriquet yes it's by Madeline Engel I think? I never got through it but it's a very popular book in the States and I think it's a set text for around 8/9 year olds

We Need to Talk About Kevin. It's one of my favourite books and i was so pleased that Tilda Swinton would be the main character (who's name i've totally forgotten) but i just hated it.

The kite Runner. Brilliant book. Completely shite film.

Under The Skin. The book is brilliant, horrifying and stays with you a long time. The film is terrible and almost everything is changed.

Yessssas @vampirethriller I'd managed to blot that out the book is amazing, unlike anything I've ever read

The film : 2 hours of ScarJo driving around in a van, and shots of random people doing their shopping.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. The film was a bloody mess with some awful locations (and the BBC TV version was SO much better).

The Girl on the Train, loved the book but the film was awful.

Agree about child 44, also One Day with Anne Hathaway, awful!

Swallows and Amazon’s when
I was about 9. I was passionate about the books, the film was dreadful.
I also hated the how to train your dragon films in comparison with the books. Full of schmultz and sickeningly Hollywood. DS didn’t seem bothered though, hey ho.

@ILoveDaveGrohl
The hunger games

I much preferred the films to the books! (Didn’t watch the third film as I hated the third book)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I was so disappointed as a child mainly because the chocolate river was not thick and gloopy like proper melted chocolate, it was like muddy water.

Memoirs of a Geisha, the character was not dressed like a geisha at all.

Totally agree with tinker tailor.

Stephen King: I liked the shining and there was once a good TV series of the stand some time ago.

However, I've loved the adaptation of the man in the high castle.

Captain Corelli for the shocking casting, although I preferred the ending of the film.

I Don't Know How She Does It- loved the book, hated how they moved it to America and turned it into a crappy romcom.

Eragon
Silk (it was a wonderful film, but I think I just admire the book way too much to ever be satisfied with a movie version)

I wanted to love gone baby gone, it was ok but nowhere near the book. They should also have done darkness take my hand as I think that was a better story. Some internet channel should deffo take gennaro and kenzie and make into a multi series thing.

I did enjoy mystic river and the other one with Leo di caprio, shutter island that's it!

I am so looking forward to good omens, will be gutted if that is bad.

I apparently stopped reading books, I feel sorry for myself

I’m pretty tolerant, and enjoyed Ready Player One, Tinker Tailor and most of the Stephen Kings. I may be the only person on MN who’ll admit to properly loving the Keira Knightly Pride and Prejudice.

But I was massively massively disappointed in the Percy Jackson films. They’re not great works of literature but the way the plotting moves to the climactic Battle of Manhattan in the final movie and the final twist is brilliantly executed (yes it rips off the battle of Hogwarts but it’s very well done, and the gender-swapped riff on Greek myth is genius). I’d willingly pay good money to see that on screen, but with all the money and a great cast they managed to screw it up and never got past book 2.

There was also a tv thing based on the mark Gillingham books that was disappointing. Shame.

Although messiah by Boris starling was great on tv, also wire in the blood

My sisters keeper.. Why change the ending?!

Lovely bones.. Just turned out a bit odd. Loved the book but on screen... Didn't work.

Divergent.. So much was changed and not surprised it didn't make it to the end! Know bits have to be changed for length but nahh just didn't work.

Harry Potter.. Again length but still. A lot cut that shouldn't been cut and the 6th film wasnt that great either.

Other Boleyn Girl.

Thé casting. THE SCRIPT.

WTF were they thinking.

There’s talk of doing the Boleyn inheritance too.... it’s going to be worse than casting Joss Stone as Anne of Cleeves in the Tudors, I just know it.