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