It’s no secret that Hollywood loves to take ideas from novels and adapt them to film. It seems like more and more movies each year started as books, especially with the popularity of young adult fiction and box office successes like Twilight and The Hunger Games.
There are, of course, movies that end up being better than their source material. That’s not to say that the original novels are bad, but just that the movie was able to capture audiences in a way that the novel wasn’t able to. There’s hot debate about some of these too, with movies like The Shining having such strong support on both sides of the debate that ...
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