30 Movies That Were Nothing Like The Book
"Mary Poppins"' author was so displeased with the film version of her book — there was a separate movie made about it!
Book lovers can be the harshest movie critics. Even when a film sticks very close to the book it’s based on, people who loved the text will no doubt pick out any tiny changes that were made, or casting decisions that don’t match their own vision of the characters, and find themselves disappointed by what’s on screen. Of course, there are also those movie adaptations that share the book’s title … and that’s about it!
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We’ve rounded up some of the most egregious instances of movies that claimed to be based on a book, only to share virtually nothing in common with it. In some cases the authors were fans of ...