Screenwriting : Novel to screen adaptations by Ryann Goldberg

My favorite novel to screen adaptation is Jurassic Park, Ryann Goldberg. I started watching The Handmaid's Tale a little while ago. I'm on season one. I think episode 4. I'm planning on getting back to the series.

There's too many to list! I like to think of the ones that almost seem so different from each other. BONES AND ALL is a book I read that after watching the film and found the writing and the book as a whole so much different and not as a good as I thought it was. It read more a like a poorly written YA book while the film was this really great romance horror with great performances!

Wise Guy by Nicholas Pileggi which became Goodfellas. I raised watching that movie in an Italian household with a single mom in Youngstown, Ohio. It is one of the main reasons I’m a writer.

Maurice Vaughan Jurassic Park is an excellent and very fun book. I love the film adaptation too.

I still need to read the book, Tucker Teague. I was surprised when I found out the movie is based on a book years ago.

Something Borrowed. John Krasinski is my kryptonite. :D

Ryann Goldberg Hi! I really loved Frank Herbert's Dune, adapted to Screen! The screenplay, direction, and music were really amazing! Moreover, of course! Harry Potter is also an evergreen fav of mine :) !!

Ryann Goldberg That's a great question. My preference is when a director adapts a book to the screen in such a way that it's not merely the book in movie form but becomes it's own thing. I love the 1979 Russian film STALKER, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky and based on the novel ROADSIDE PICNIC, written by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. Perhaps my favorite book/film adaptation is the 2002 film ADAPTATION, directed by Spike Jonze and written by Charlie Kaufman. It's sorta kinda based on Susan Orlean's 1998 nonfiction book THE ORCHID THIEF but, well... you have to watch it because it's difficult to explain.

The Riverworld series consists of five science fiction novels (1971–1983) by American author Philip José Farmer (1918–2009). The Riverworld is an artificial, or heavily terraformed, planet where all humans (and pre-humans) who ever lived throughout history have been restored to life. The novels (and a few shorter works) explore interactions of resurrected individuals from many different cultures and time periods. The underlying theme is quasi-religious. The motivations and ethics of the unknown intelligences that created the Riverworld and its inhabitants are explored.

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Ok, it clearly isn't a masterpiece qua acting, but I still like the book series brought to the screen.

And the film

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hands down The Lord of the Rings

Such a great topic, Ryann Goldberg! I’m always drawn to stories that find new life on screen in a way that feels both faithful and fresh. A few of my favorites are Jurassic Park, Stand By Me, The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Forrest Gump, and Crazy Rich Asians.

Good question, Ryann Goldberg! I loved the movie adaptation of "Suite française" by Irène Némirovsky. It was a quite complicated job because the novel was unfinished due to the author's sad destiny, but the screenwriters were able to write consistent and moving storylines and ending. The actors, the cinematography and the soundtrack completed an overall excellent adaptation.

Really cool topic, Ryann — I love these! For me, it’s 100% Outlander — honestly, it’s my favorite series ever. I also really enjoyed Anne with an E! In general, I just love films and series that bring past centuries to life on screen. There’s something magical about seeing times come alive that didn’t have film or TV back then. Another favorite (out of many, haha) is The Nightingale — I’m so excited it’s finally getting a movie adaptation (hopefully this year) - I can recommend the book though!

I think it often gets a little overlooked but Bridget Jones Diary is a rare example of an extraordinarily well done book to film adaptation.

I'll go back 90 years and say CAPTAIN BLOOD for starters. For the period in which it was made (when Hollywood would adapt a book by keeping the title and changing everything between the covers), it was faithful to the novel. It was heavily condensed (still, clocking in at 2 hrs is a long movie for 1935), but what is there is in the book. More recent I would say Peter Jackson's LOTR trilogy.

Its interesting when the adaptation is actually better than the book. The way Layer Cake was adapted made it really engaging and there are moments in the movie Hunt for Red October that build suspense far better than the book.