10 Books That Should Never Have Been Turned Into Films
Taking someone else's work from a rather personal medium and making it work on the big screen is a hard task and when done right, should be indiscernible from films with original concepts. Adaptations of novels, no matter how derided the source material, are always treated with an impressed air and while blockbuster film now takes its inspiration from cinema's own history, literary adaptations remain still present in their droves. Sometimes, however, a book will be turned into a film when it really shouldn't have been. How many times have you watched a film based on a great novel and left perplexed at how it went so wrong. The term unfilmable has become increasingly prominent as more and more unsuitable novels are being mooted for the movie treatment. In reality, no book is unfilmable. Theres sometimes just no way to film some well. Literary fans can be as discerning as their comic book inspired counterparts and have been wronged many more times. In tribute to some big disappointments, we present you with ten novels that should never in a million years have made it to the silver screen.