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Wednesday, May 1st, 2013

These May movies are based on books:

Jurassic Park 3D (the 3D release of the 1993 box office smash hit)

is still based on the novel Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton (iconic cover by the amazing Chip Kidd).

Hannah Arendt is a biographical film about the German Jewish philosopher. It isn’t based on any specific book,

but there are quite a few books about her, the times she lived in and her work, like The Portable Hannah Arendt.

Two Mothers is based on the short story The Grandmothers by Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing.

The Great Gatsby is based on the classic written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. If you haven’t read it yet, do! Glorious use of language.

The Company You Keep is based on the novel with the same title by Neil Gordon.

L’Ecume des Jours is based on the French novel with the same title by Boris Vian.

It has been translated to English with the title Froth on the Daydream.

Epic is based on the novel The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs by William Joyce

Midnight’s Children is based on the modern classic by Salman Rushdie (originally scheduled for March).

Thursday, April 11th, 2013

These April movies started out as books:

Kon-Tiki is based on Thor Heyerdal’s seminal travelogue of his 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition.

G.I. Joe: Retaliation is based on Hasbro’s game and toy franchise, and you can also find him in graphic novels.

Oblivion is based on the same-titled graphic novel by Joseph Kosinski.

Safe Haven is based on Nicholas Spark’s novel titled Safe Haven.

Night Train to Lisbon is based on the novel with the same title written by Pascal Mercier. (The original is in German; when the English translation first came out we couldn’t reorder stock fast enough!)

Iron Man 3 is based on a series of comic books and graphic novels released by Marvel Comics. For those interested, a book on the art of the film will be published in May.

Warm Bodies is based on Isaac Marion’s novel Warm Bodies.

Wednesday, March 6th, 2013

These March movies started out as books:

Broken is based on Daniel Clay’s novel Broken.

Lore is adapted from The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert.

I Am Slave is based on the memoir Slave by Mende Nazer, as faithful readers of this blog surely know.

Hitchcock is based on Stephen Rebello’s Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho.
So, a movie based on a book based on a movie, all meta-like – Abed would approve, for sure!