10 Movies Based On Books That Should've NEVER Been Made

At the beginning of the 2000s, J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series began to be made in to movies. This prompted the beginning of a range of novel movies starting to appear on screen. Directors sought to seek out a selection of books that had a primary audience of young adults, increasing the hype surrounding the releases, throwing big budgets at the popular franchises of the years.

Some of these films followed the sorcerer's popularity, take The Hunger Games as a prime example, but others flopped from the moment the book fans saw them, causing many of these films to stop production for the continuing future on anymore instalments.

Why do directors always have to change so much from the original concept? Do the book writers ever get a say with the final cinema product? What is it that the audiences hate about them so much?

Here are some notable book-to-movie fails that should have never existed, failing miserably with their adaptations from paper to screen with a multitude of reasons as to why they should've never occurred in the first place.

In 2011, Veronica Roth's Divergent book series was a popular hit with the young adult audience. It followed the story of a city that had been divided in to factions after the war in which Tris Prior fails to fit in - a typical dystopian female hero storyline, not too dissimilar to Katniss Everdeen's that was gaining fame by the second.

3 years later the first film of the franchise was released, with an A-list cast including Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Ansel Elgort and Miles Teller. After receiving a relatively good box office revenue, audiences were promised 3 more movies.

But then came the second and third films.

The narratives of Allegiant and Insurgent changed major plot points for the big screen, causing outrage from fans who were not best pleased. The trailers revealed large plot points and overall, both did not receive as high of a praise.

The penultimate installment Allegiant (renamed from Allegiant: Part 1) finished with a cliff-hanger for the next film, later announced as Ascendant. Soon after the backlash, this was proposed as a TV show instead. However the cast backed out of the new deal, leaving no option but to close the unfinished chapter forever.