Book to movie adaptations, video game to television show adaptations, short story to limited series adaptations there’s no shortage of material from which filmmakers can adapt. Sometimes movie adaptations can be just as good as the book, graphic novel, video game, or other material they're based on. Other times filmmakers just can’t seem to get them right. In this video we’ll look at why some adaptations work so well, while others don’t.

//CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro
01:51 Loyal to Source Material Versus Deviates
03:43 Author’s Who Hate the Film Adaptation
03:58 Film Adaptations Better than the Book
04:35 The Problem with David Lynch’s Dune
05:07 Creative Screenwriting
06:43 How Denis Villeneuve Makes Dune Work

//SOURCES:
MOVIES – Uncharted (2022), Gran Turismo (2023), Persuasion (2022), The Last Thing He Told Me (2023), Dumbo (2019), Wonka (2023), Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Little Caesar (1931), The Wizard of Oz (1939), Forrest Gump (1994), Station Eleven (2021), Barbie (2023), The Last of Us (2023), Brokeback Mountain (2005), Sin City (2005), Zola (2020), Jurassic Park (1993), Dune (2021), Romeo + Juliet (1996). The Princess Bride (1987), White Noise (2022), Blade Runner (1982), Atonement (2007), Jaws (1975), To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), No Country for Old Men (2007), Fight Club (1999), Children of Men (2006), There Will Be Blood (2007), The Shining (1980), The Shining (1997) TV miniseries, The Prestige (2006), The Godfather (1972), Dune (1984), Resident Evil (2002), LOTR: The Fellowship of The Ring (2001), V for Vendetta (2005), Watchmen (2009), The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012), Arrival (2016), I Am Legend (2007), Annihilation (2018), The Goldfinch (2019), The Martian (2015), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), The Virgin Suicides (1999), Call Me by Your Name (2017), Solaris (1972), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)

INTERVIEWS/ADDITIONAL VIDEOS –
1948: Let's go to the movies
There Will Be Blood Paul Thomas Anderson interviewed by Elvis Mitchell on KCRW's The Treatment
Stephen King interview (1993) – Charlie Rose
Francis Ford Coppola: Making 'The Godfather' was a 'frightening experience' From Fresh Air
David Lynch on Dune
Arrival Interview With Screenwriter Eric Heisserer Collider Video
Annihilation's mindbending adaptationAlex GarlandTIFF 2018
Dune director Denis Villeneuve on adapting Frank Herbert's notoriously unfilmable scifi epic
David Lynch: Dune Interview

//MUSIC:
Let's Start at the Beginning by Lee Rosevere is licensed under a CC BY 3.0 license.

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