9 Times Authors Disavowed Adaptations Of Their Work

Charlotte's Web is considered a classic, whether as a novel or as a film. However, the author of the children's story, E.B. White, loathed the movie for what he saw as taking his work and putting too much characteristic Disney into it.

He went on at length to describe what he disliked so much about it, from its inaccurate depiction of the Blue Hill Fair to the story being "interrupted so that somebody can sing a jolly song. I don't care much for jolly songs." For someone who wrote such a famous children's book, you'd think he would be a bit more light-hearted.

White's wife went so far as to call the Hanna-Barbera adaptation a "travesty" in a letter to Gene Deitch, of Tom & Jerry and Popeye fame. White would later state of his experience with the movie in a lighter tone, "That's what you get for getting embroiled in Hollywood."