Adaptations
Material from which The Next Reel’s Movies Were Adapted
- Angel Street (Gaslight), Patrick Hamilton
- For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
- Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
- A Jest of God (Rachel, Rachel), Margaret Laurence
- Oliver Twist (Oliver!), Charles Dickens
- The Lion in Winter, James Goldman
- The Hoods (Once Upon a Time in America), Harry Grey
- Danger: Diabolik, Angela and Luciana Giussani
- The Detective, Roderick Thorp
- Planet of the Apes, Pierre Boulle
- 2010: Odyssey Two: A Novel, Arthur C. Clarke
- 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke
- All You Zombies (Predestination), Robert A. Heinlein
- Giant, Edna Ferber
- East of Eden, John Steinbeck
- Old Boy, Garon Tsuchiya & Nobuaki Minegishi
- Mary Poppins, P. L. Travers
- 58 Minutes (Die Hard 2), Walter Wager
- Nothing Lasts Forever (Die Hard), Roderick Thorp
- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, Stieg Larsson
- The Girl Who Played With Fire, Stieg Larsson
- The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
- Scott Pilgrim, Bryan Lee O’Malley
- The Black Stallion, Walter Farley
- Howl’s Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
- Half in Love (Certain Women), Maile Meloy
- Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It (Certain Women), Maile Meloy
- Livability: Stories (Wendy and Lucy), Jon Raymond
- From Hell, Alan Moore & Eddie Campbell
- The Emigrants, Vilhelm Moberg
- Unto a Good Land (The Emigrants), Vilhelm Moberg
- Wives and Concubines (Raise the Red Lantern), Su Tong
- Fuxi Fuxi (Ju Dou), Liu Heng
- The Danish Girl, David Ebershoff
- The Godfather, Mario Puzo
- What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Henry Farrell
- The Wisdom of Eve (All About Eve), Mary Orr
- Now, Voyager, Olive Higgins Prouty
- The Little Foxes, Lillian Hellman
- The Fly, George Langelaan
- Seabiscuit: An American Legend, Laura Hillenbrand
- Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War, Mark Bowden
- Blindness, José Saramago
- The Children of Men, P.D. James
- The Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton
- I Am Legend (The Omega Man), Richard Matheson
- Red Alert (Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb), Peter Bryant
- The Great Escape, Paul Brickhill
- The Ministry of Fear, Graham Greene
- Rogue Male (Man Hunt), Geoffrey Household
- Spies, Thea Von Harbou
- Metropolis, Thea Von Harbou
- Bodies Are Where You Find Them (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang), Brett Halliday
- The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Goodbye, Mr. Chips, James Hilton
- The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum
- Stage to Lordsburg (Stagecoach), Ernest Haycox
- The Women, Clare Boothe Luce
- The Tin Star (High Noon), John W. Cunningham
- Glengarry Glen Ross, David Mamet
- The Untouchables, Eliot Ness with Oscar Fraley
- The Verdict, Barry Reed
- Vacation ’58 (National Lampoon’s Vacation), John Hughes
- Halma (Viridiana), Benito Perez Galdos
- The Wind Rises, Hayao Miyazaki
- Lupin III, Vol. 1 (Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro), Monkey Punch
- Night Shift (Children of the Corn), Stephen King
- The Turn of the Screw (The Innocents), Henry James
- The Midwich Cuckoos (Village of the Damned), John Wyndham
- The Bad Seed, Maxwell Anderson (play)
- The Bad Seed, William March (novel)
- Snowpiercer, Jacques Lob & Jean-Marc Rochette
- Sophie’s Choice, William Styron
- The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles
- Kramer vs. Kramer, Avery Corman
- Ninotchka, Melchior Lengyel
- Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
- Seconds, David Ely
- Sweet Smell of Success, Ernest Lehman
- Kings Row, Henry Bellamann
- The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett
- Badge of Evil (Touch of Evil), Whit Masterson
- Build My Gallows High (Out of the Past), Geoffrey Homes
- La Chienne (Scarlet Street) (novel), Georges de La Fouchardiere
- La Chienne (Scarlet Street) (film), Jean Renoir
- Detour, Martin M. Goldsmith
- Double Indemnity, James M. Cain
- L.A. Confidential, James Ellroy
- Rope Burns: Stories From the Corner (Million Dollar Baby), F.X. Toole
- See No Evil (Syriana), Bob Baer
- The Man in the White Suit, Roger MacDougall
- Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal (Kind Hearts and Coronets), Roy Horniman
- The Poseidon Adventure, Paul Gallico
- The Bishop’s Wife, Robert Nathan
- Requiem for a Dream, Hubert Selby, Jr.
- The Exorcist, William Peter Blatty
- The Odyssey (O Brother, Where Art Thou?), Homer
- Misery, Stephen King
- Different Seasons (Stand By Me, Apt Pupil), Stephen King
- Christine, Stephen King
- The Dead Zone, Stephen King
- Cujo, Stephen King
- Creepshow, Stephen King
- The Shining, Stephen King
- Labor Day, Joyce Maynard
- Yojimbo (A Fistful of Dollars), Akira Kurosawa
- La Jetée (Twelve Monkeys), Chris Marker
- The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Rudolf Erich Raspe
- Official History of Australia in the War 1914-1918: The Story of ANZAC (Gallipoli), C. E. W. Bean
- The Broken Years: Australian Soldiers in the Great War (Gallipoli), Bill Gammage
- The Home Invaders: Confessions of a Cat Burglar (Thief), Frank Hohimer
- Das Boot, Lother-Gunther Buchheim
- Lost Moon (Apollo 13), Jeffrey Kluger & James Lovell
- Forrest Gump, Winston Groom
- Being There, Jerzy Kosinski
- The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West
- City of God: A Novel, Paulo Lins
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death, Jean-Dominique Bauby
- Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist , Rachel Cohn & David Levithan
- About a Boy , Nick Hornby
- No Country for Old Men , Cormac McCarthy
- Night Bus (It Happened One Night) , Samuel Hopkins Adams (currently not available)
- The Night of the Hunter , Davis Grubb
- Clean Break (The Killing) , Lionel White
- Prince of Thieves (The Town), Chuck Hogan
- The Barnum Museum (The Illusionist) , Steven Millhauser
- The Prestige , Christopher Priest
- Gone to Texas (The Outlaw Josey Wales), Forrest Carter
- Carrie , Stephen King
- Marathon Man , William Goldman
- Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game , Michael Lewis
- Prizzi’s Honor , Richard Condon
- The Asphalt Jungle, W. R. Burnett
- Key Largo, Maxwell Anderson
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, B. Traven
- The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
- “The Man in the Bomb Suit” (The Hurt Locker), article by Mark Boal
- A Cup of Coffee: A Comedy About Business (Christmas in July), Preston Sturges
- Drive, James Sallis
- The French Connection, Robin Moore
- Mute Witness (Bullitt), Robert L. Fish
- Who Goes There? (The Thing), John W. Campbell
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler
- Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions, Daniel Wallace
- Rush, Kim Wozencraft
- Driving Miss Daisy, Alfred Uhry
- Jaws, Peter Benchley
- Compulsion, Meyer Levin
- The Bourne Legacy, Eric Van Lustbader
- The Bourne Ultimatum, Robert Ludlum
- The Bourne Supremacy, Robert Ludlum
- The Bourne Identity, Robert Ludlum
- The African Queen, C. S. Forester
- The Red Shoes, Hans Christian Andersen
- Up in the Air, Walter Kirn
- Thank you for Smoking, Christopher Buckley
- Shoeless Joe (Field of Dreams), W. P. Kinsella
- The Natural, Bernard Malmud
- All the President’s Men, Carl Berstein & Bob Woodward
- The Parallax View, Loren Singer
- Fight Club, Chuck Palahnuik
- Zodiac, Robert Graysmith
- Zodiac Unmasked, Robert Graysmith
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal (The Social Network), Ben Mezrich
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
- My Three Angels (We’re No Angels), Sam and Bella Spewack
- The Orchid Thief: A True Tale of Beauty and Obsession (Adaptation), Susan Orlean