Top 10 Authors Who Hated Movie Adaptations Of Their Work
Top 10 Authors Who Hated Movie Adaptations Of Their Work
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After their books were taken and turned into major hollywood movies, the authors who penned them had some not so nice things to say about them, as they were unhappy with what their stories had become! WatchMojo presents the Top 10 Authors Who Hated the Movies that Were Based on Their Books! But who will take the top spot on our list? Will it be Stephen King and “The Shining”, Truman Capote and “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”, or P.L. Travers’ “Mary Poppins”? Watch to find out!
#10. Billy Hayes and “Midnight Express” (1978)
#9. Winston Groom and “Forrest Gump” (1994)
#8. Michael Ende and “The NeverEnding Story” (1984)
#7. E. B. White and “Charlotte’s Web” (1973)
#6. Bret Easton Ellis and “American Psycho” (2000)
#5. Anthony Burgess and “A Clockwork Orange” (1971)
#4. Roald Dahl and “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory” (1971)
#3, #2, #1 ?
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I actually like the new charlie and the chocolate factory film more than the old one cause it's way more true to the book.
The old one was terrible IMO
This just makes me think most authors are stuck up pricks who think their work is perfection. Books are different than movies, you can't apply the same thinking to them. Zzzz. All these movies were goddamn amazing.
Forrest Gump was a fantastic movie. I actually didnt think the author would hate it.
I gotta say I agree with King on this one. Not that I believe The Shining was badly made, which it wasn't. This is Kubrick we're talking about, but I read the novel from beginning to end and there were ginormous differences in plot as well as characters.
Where is Rick Riordan? He dislikes the movie adaptations of both The Lighting Thief and The Sea of Monsters to the point that he wrote a letter asking teachers to not show the movies.
I've heard Stephen King hated the Shining, but I would put The Lawnmower Man on the list. It was nowhere near his original story.
they missed the raging hate Rick Riordan has for the Percy Jackson's movies
Was Kubrick a failed author? Did he do what he did for spite?
The Shining is overrated though
If Roald Dahl was still alive, I don't think he'd like Fantastic Mr. Fox, either (a Wes Anderson animated film that received critical acclaim).
LOTR animated films
2+2=4-1=3 Quick maths
U are good bro
I don’t blame King for hating the Shinning, I never could stand it, same with Willy Wonks, I can never sit through those two movies. And I agree with EB White, don’t care much for musicals myself.
Percy jackson beeter be on here
WHERES rick riordan/ percy j
noone was impressed with american psycho
It is extremely difficult to adapt a book to film, so one has to forgive cinematic digressions. Even so most of these are still very good films. But in my opinion the Shining (film) is waaaaaaaay overrated, while I do enjoy the film it isn't even close to being the best or even scariest horror film of all time!!
Steven king should hate cell and the dark tower movie adaptations
fuck all these hoity toity authors.
We all knew it was The Shining
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The Shining book was way better than the movie, the movie changed too much and become pretentious abstract nonsense.
H.G. Wells also hated The Invisible Man, specifically how it ended. Also, Anne Rice didn't like the fact that Tom Cruise was cast as Lestat in Interview With the Vampire.
Kubrick's The Shining honestly looks better IMO, plus who can forget "HERE'S JOHNNY!"
"Here's Johnny!"
When forest says life is like a box of chocolates you never know what your gonna get bullshit it will literally tell you on the box what you’re gonna get
Come on people!!! Let’s get this video to 10 000 views!!!
These authors only know to criticize, fuck you
I'm on the same page about Charlotte's web. The singing is definitely too much.
Akira Toriyama. Dragon Ball Evolution.
I've been waiting on this particular subject for two years now.
Well I like them. So fuck em'
Dear God Tom Hanks sucked in "Forest Gump" awful movie and awful performance. Shelly Duvall was horribly miscast in The Shining, funny how you describe the character played by Audrey Hepburn in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" as a "socialite" she was a call girl, LOL (and the George Peppard character a kept man) Capote was wrong about Marilyn playing the part–it would have been way too obvious.
Its pronounced KOO brick. Not KYOO brick.
i hated the shining as well. mostly because kubrick totally changed the end of the story and it missed king´s style almost all the time.
Thanks for spoiling Midnight freaking Express.
I read a clockwork orange i think the movie is very faithfull to the book and burgess actually said he liked the movie but he doesn't consider a clockwork orange to be his best book (at the time he wrote a lot of books just because he was in need ) and he was really sad that his other books were not adapted and that he will always be remembered as the guy who wrote the novel that the inspired the movie.
Roald not Rowald