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AdaptThis started as a book to film adaptation review website. A rough estimate of 50 movies over 2015-2020 were released by Hollywood based on popular novels. Lord of The Rings, Hunger Games, Divergent, and more. Check out the reviews from our 5 writers.

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Book to film adaptations are published books that are made into movies by hollywood.

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Maggie Grainger, Timothy Meyers, Martin David, Kimberlee Hicks, Katherine Thomlinson, and Rotimi the Founder of AdaptThis

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I’m not going anywhere. I’m going to stay here and cause all kinds of trouble. What are the key ingredients for creating a pop culture phenomenon? Is there a perfect recipe for success and, if so, what must you mix

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In this dramatic tale which weaves together redemption and true love. It may seem corny but the ideal in the movie is that of a soul mate and how even after losing it all, over and over again love can

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It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to. Bilbo speaks from experience; nominated by the wizard Gandalf

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2001

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You could see this movie 3.14 times and still not catch all the nuances and meanings Director Ang Lee has finessed into his unlikely bit of cinema. Lee and his team believe in magic and they share it generously with

Love Dishonor Marry Die Cherish by David Rakoff
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2013

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Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish

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The infant, named Margaret, had hair on her headThink and wild as a fire, and three times as red.The midwife, a brawny and capable whelper,Gave one look and crossed herself. ‘God about help her,’She whispered, but gave the new mother

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A Private Little War

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In a universe where man finds life on nearly every planet, it is easy to believe that human mercenary companies would be sending militant groups to every corner of the universe to pacify native life forms and plunder local resources.

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Hector and the Search for Happiness book to film adaptation review
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2014

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I found this movie on a chance encounter with redbox while wanting to reward myself after a full week of working till 2am. The first thing I will say is that it has made me want to read the book,

Insurgent - Divergent series book to film adaptation review
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2015

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Why all the funny titles of blogs, because they want you to think they are a trilogy that keeps going on and on. We have seen multiple book to film adaptation trilogies released all have serious sounding titles and could

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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and

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2013

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I’m not going anywhere. I’m going to stay here and cause all kinds of trouble. What are the key ingredients for creating a pop culture phenomenon? Is there a perfect recipe for success and, if so, what must you mix

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2013

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It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to. Bilbo speaks from experience; nominated by the wizard Gandalf

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2013

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A Private Little War

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Jason Sheehan
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In a universe where man finds life on nearly every planet, it is easy to believe that human mercenary companies would be sending militant groups to every corner of the universe to pacify native life forms and plunder local resources.

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2003

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His mother swears he was named after a Czechoslovakian uncle, but there was an error on his birth certificate. His father claims they’d always intended to name him Odd and furthermore, he has no Czechoslovakian uncles. However he came by

The Old Boy Graphic Novel and film adaptation
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2006

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Ten years ago Shinichi Goto was kidnapped and locked away in solitary confinement with only a television set for company. To keep from going mad, Shinichi has devised his own workout program and his body, underneath his shapeless clothes, is

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The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History book cover
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2007

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THE MONUMENTS MEN, Clooney’s latest directorial endeavor, improves marketably on the formula established in the non-fiction book (of the same name) on which it is based, but does manages to suffer from a handful of its own unique pitfalls. Adapting

The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History book cover

Certainly, there are as many ways to write engaging and immersive literary non-fiction as there are to write engaging and immersive literary fiction. Oftentimes, the best subjects for such works are the strange corner-cases of history, unexplored lacunas that public

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty book to film adapatation review
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2013

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Mitty is the greatest man in the world according to his lucid day-dreams where he picks up on his love interest, saves a dog from a burning building and more. What’s great about this film is that it could be

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2007

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This movie was announced for a Christmas day release. Compounding on that fact, this is a movie chock full of nudity, obscene language and fanatical money laundering. Jordan Belfort, the character from the book seems even richer and craftier of

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2007

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Over the course of one week the “Wolf of Wall Street” made more money than the King of France had in his coffers. It examines his relationships with his subordinates, peers and family life, all without leaving the sex, drugs

Silver Linings Playbook book to film adaptation review
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2008

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Author Sally Kempton once said, “it’s hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.” This concept is made readily accessible in ‘Silver Linings Playbook’. Not to be defeated by his stay in a neurology hospital after catching

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The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History book cover

Certainly, there are as many ways to write engaging and immersive literary non-fiction as there are to write engaging and immersive literary fiction. Oftentimes, the best subjects for such works are the strange corner-cases of history, unexplored lacunas that public

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty book to film adapatation review
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2013

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Mitty is the greatest man in the world according to his lucid day-dreams where he picks up on his love interest, saves a dog from a burning building and more. What’s great about this film is that it could be

The spectacular now book to film adaptation review
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2008

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This book is a teenage Young Adult Novel and it revolves around Sutter Keely who resides in Oklahoma. He is not narcissistic nor spiritual nor a social butterfly. He is a social magic maker. He makes up witty words to

The spectacular now book to film adaptation review
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2013

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THE SPECTACULAR NOW examines the lives of high school teens in a manner that doesn’t trivialize, sexualize or demean them. At times, the film may succeed in sentimentalizing high school and cannot quite decide precisely how its audience is meant

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2007

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This movie was announced for a Christmas day release. Compounding on that fact, this is a movie chock full of nudity, obscene language and fanatical money laundering. Jordan Belfort, the character from the book seems even richer and craftier of

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2007

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Over the course of one week the “Wolf of Wall Street” made more money than the King of France had in his coffers. It examines his relationships with his subordinates, peers and family life, all without leaving the sex, drugs

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2013

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Sent to Britain to live with her cousins for the summer, Elizabeth – who insists on being called Daisy – is stuck in a trap very familiar to American teenage girls. Living rigidly according to societally imposed rules, she is

Love Dishonor Marry Die Cherish by David Rakoff
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2013

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Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish

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The infant, named Margaret, had hair on her headThink and wild as a fire, and three times as red.The midwife, a brawny and capable whelper,Gave one look and crossed herself. ‘God about help her,’She whispered, but gave the new mother

The spectacular now book to film adaptation review
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2008

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This book is a teenage Young Adult Novel and it revolves around Sutter Keely who resides in Oklahoma. He is not narcissistic nor spiritual nor a social butterfly. He is a social magic maker. He makes up witty words to

The spectacular now book to film adaptation review
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2013

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THE SPECTACULAR NOW examines the lives of high school teens in a manner that doesn’t trivialize, sexualize or demean them. At times, the film may succeed in sentimentalizing high school and cannot quite decide precisely how its audience is meant

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1983

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In Mark Helprin’s novel Winter’s Tale, a thief in love with a doomed heiress looks for a way to turn back time and ushers in a new millennium in the process. The book begins somewhere in Brooklyn when a beautiful

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1978

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“Humanity, you never had it from the beginning. That was my motto.” – Henry Chinaski Women by Charles Bukowski reintroduces a recurring, yet hardly beloved character in Bukowski’s works, Henry Chinaski. Chinaski established himself in Factotum, Post Office, and Ham