It has come to my attention recently while stocking our ever crowded, brimming over shelves, that more and more books have been/are being made into movies! Sometimes it's hard to keep up in all honesty and it can get even more tricky when what looks like an original book is actually written and released after the movie as a tie in. Don't get me started about film covers! And for some reason, most of these seem to be teen books that are adapted. Good old sappy teen books. So here we take you friends, on an odyssey through the written and acted word.
Okay, to start us off here is a list of big name movies that were released last year (2014 if you have forgotten) that were from books originally.
Teen and Children:
The Hunger Games -Mockingjay Part.1 by Suzanne Collins
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
If I Stay by Gayle Forman
Divergent by Veronica Roth
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
How to Train Your Dragon No.2 by Cressida Cowell
Love Rosie (originally Where Rainbows End) by Cecelia Ahern
Paddington books by Michael Bond
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
Fiction
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
The Hobbit by Tolkien
Non Fiction
The Theory of Everything (originally Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen) by Jane Wilde Hawking
American Sniper by Chris Kyle, with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice
I am sure that there are billions more that have slipped my mind at this point in time AND not to mention the films that have come out this year or are just about to! Just think; 50 Shades of Grey by E.L James, DUFF (Designated Ugly Fat Friend) by Kody Keplinger The Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks (although I feel that he writes his books specifically for them to be adapted), and all those other sequels coming out! Phew that's a lot! Honourable mentions go to The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp released in 2013. Then there's the Angus Thongs and Perfect Snogging books, Bridget Jones Diaries... I am becoming more convinced that just about every movie has come from a book originally. Actually no, Paper Planes became a book after it was a film. Otherwise the list is endless.
Personally speaking, I would love it if the Ashbury High Series by Jaclyn Moriarty would be made into films but it'd be a challenge to work around the actual format of the books as they are based on letters/emails/personal musings. Then again, I wonder if that would ruin the books. Adaptations of any Maureen McCarthy books may also work very well also!
Which book would you LOVE to see made into a movie? Why not drop in and tell us!
Okay, to start us off here is a list of big name movies that were released last year (2014 if you have forgotten) that were from books originally.
Teen and Children:
The Hunger Games -Mockingjay Part.1 by Suzanne Collins
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
If I Stay by Gayle Forman
Divergent by Veronica Roth
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
How to Train Your Dragon No.2 by Cressida Cowell
Love Rosie (originally Where Rainbows End) by Cecelia Ahern
Paddington books by Michael Bond
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
Fiction
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
The Hobbit by Tolkien
Non Fiction
The Theory of Everything (originally Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen) by Jane Wilde Hawking
American Sniper by Chris Kyle, with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice
I am sure that there are billions more that have slipped my mind at this point in time AND not to mention the films that have come out this year or are just about to! Just think; 50 Shades of Grey by E.L James, DUFF (Designated Ugly Fat Friend) by Kody Keplinger The Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks (although I feel that he writes his books specifically for them to be adapted), and all those other sequels coming out! Phew that's a lot! Honourable mentions go to The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp released in 2013. Then there's the Angus Thongs and Perfect Snogging books, Bridget Jones Diaries... I am becoming more convinced that just about every movie has come from a book originally. Actually no, Paper Planes became a book after it was a film. Otherwise the list is endless.
Personally speaking, I would love it if the Ashbury High Series by Jaclyn Moriarty would be made into films but it'd be a challenge to work around the actual format of the books as they are based on letters/emails/personal musings. Then again, I wonder if that would ruin the books. Adaptations of any Maureen McCarthy books may also work very well also!
Which book would you LOVE to see made into a movie? Why not drop in and tell us!
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