10 Unfilmable Properties That Should've Stayed That Way
All these movies fail to do justice to the source material.
With movie budgets increasingly going through the roof these days, it's perhaps little wonder that the studios increasingly turn to "known quantities". Remakes, reboots and adaptations have become their bread and butter, all of which provide a much better guarantee of a return on their investments when compared to risky original ideas. Some adaptations are hugely effective, making the transition from their source - be it books, comics or even video games - to the screen without losing too much of the essence in translation. Others, however, are not so successful, particularly those properties which are rightly or wrongly labeled as "unfilmable". Here are ten adaptations which fit into that category, films which - while not necessarily bad in their own right (although some sure are) - fail to do justice to the source material.