THE ART OF FILM

The art of adaptation

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Adapting animation
Astro Boy
Blood: The Last Vampire
The Last Airbender

Adapting for television
The Line of Beauty
Love in a Cold Climate
Sense and Sensibility

Adapting articles & newspaper stories
Annapolis
Chronicas
In the Valley of Elah
Shattered Glass

Adapting action figures
G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra

Adapting the classics
Brideshead Revisited
From Prada to Nada
Henry of Navarre
Jane Eyere
Just Go With It
Gulliver's Travels
Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
Oliver Twist (Roman Polanski)
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Sherlock Holmes
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
The Three Musketeers
Virgin Territories

Adapting children's stories
Alice in Wonderland
Animals United
Beastly
Bridge to Terabithia
Charlotte's Web
The Chronicles of Narnia: The lion, the witch and the wardrobe
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs
The Dark is Rising
Dr. Seuss Horton Hears A Who
Eragon
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Flicka
The Golden Compass
Hoot
Hotel for Dogs
How to Eat Fried Worms
I am Number 4
Inkheart
The Last Mimzy
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
Nanny McPhee
Night at the Museum
Nim's Island
Race to Witch Mountain
Spiderwick Chronicles
Stormbreaker
War Horse
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep
Where the Wild Things Are
Winnie The Pooh
Zathura: A Space Adventure

Adapting comic books and graphic novels
The Adventures of Tintin
Batman Begins
Captain America: The First Avenger
The Dark Knight
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
The Ghost Rider
The Green Lantern
Hulk
The Incredible Hulk
Iron Man
Kick-Ass
Priest
Punisher: War Zone
Red
Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
The Smurfs
Spider-Man
Spider-Man 2
Spider-Man 3
Surrogates
30 Days for Night
Thor
Transformers
Wanted
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Zoom

Adapting films
Everybody's Fine
Cowboys & Aliens
The Heartbreak Kid
The Lake House
Last Holiday
Mad Money
Shutter
Straw Dogs
Ultraviolet

Adapting history and mythology
Apocalypto
Charlie Wilson's War
Eragon
Last Legion
The New World
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
Red Riding Hood
Robin Hood
300
Tristan and Isolde

Adapting novels
A Single Man
And there will be blood
And when last did you see your father?
The Adjustment Bureau
Appaloosa
The American
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Aquamarine
Atonement
Away from Her
Babylon A.D
Blindness
Boy A
The Boy In Striped Pajamas
Brick Lane
Brighton Rock
Candy
Charlie St. Cloud
Choke
City of Ember
Cock and Bull Story
Conan the Barbarian
The Constant Gardener
Confessions of a Shopaholic
Crazy Heart
The Da Vinci Code
Dear John
Death Sentence
The Descendants
Derailed
Disgrace
Evening
Feast of Love
Fierce People
1408
Freedomland
Freedom Writers
The Ghost Writer
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Girl who played with fire
Gone Baby Gone
Hannibal Rising
The Help
He's Just Not That Into You
How to lose Friends and Alienate People
I am Legend
I Don't know how she does it
I Love You Beth Cooper
Jumper
Kite Runner
The Last Song
Letters from Iwo Jima
Letters to Juliet
Lie With Me
Like Dandelion Dust
Little Children
Limitless
The Lincoln Lawyer
London Boulevard
Love in the time of cholera
The lovely bones
Millions
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Mistress of Spice
Mr. Popper's Penguins
My Sister's Keeper
The Namesake
The Nanny Diaries
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
Nights in Rodanthe
No Country for Old Men
North Country
Notes on a Scandal
One Day
One Missed Call
Perfume: The story of a murderer
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
PS. I love you
Ramona and Beezus
Reservation Road
The Road
The Secret Life of Bees
The Sentinel
Separate Lies
Shooter
Shopgirl
Shutter Island
Silk
Slumdog Millionaire
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Something Borrowed
Stardust
Starter for 10
Stone Angel
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
Thank You for Smoking
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Town
Thumbsucker
Tomorrow, when the world began
True Grit
Twilight
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Unknown
Up In The Air
Where The Truth Lies
Whip It
Winter's Bone
Yes Man
Youth in Revolt



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Adapting plays and musicals
A Good Woman
Doubt
Easy Virtue
For Colored Girls
Frost/ Nixon
The History Boys
Incendies
The Ides of March
The Libertine
Master Harold and the Boys
Nine
Rabbit Hole
Rent
Running Riot
Sarafina!
She's The Man
Sweeney Todd: Demon Barber of Fleet Street
War Horse
Water for Elephants
Winter Passing

Adapting short stories
The Box
Casanova
The Darkest Hour
Drive
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Elegy
Everything Must Go
Immortals
Martian Child
The Mist
Next
The Other Man
Real Steel
The Switch

Adapting real life stories
127 Hours
50 Dead Men Walking
Agora
Alexander
Amelia
Aviator
Baaden Meinhof Complex
The Bang Bang Club
Barney's Version
Black Dahlia
The Blind Side
Body of Lies
The Boys are Back
Breach
Breakfast on Pluto
Bright Star
The Brothers Grimm
Capote
Che - Part 1 & 2
Cheri
Coco Avant Chanel
Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky
Conversations with God
Conviction
Creation
The Devil's Double
Diving Bell and the Butterfly
The Duchess
An Education
The Eagle
Eat Pray Love
Eight Below
Endgame
Extraordinary Measures
Fair Game
The Fighter
Find Me Guilty
The First Grader
Flags of Our Fathers
Flyboys
Frost/ Nixon
Fugitive Pieces
FUR: A Portrait of Diane Arbus
Get Low
Glory Road
The Good German
Good Night and Good Luck
The Good Shepherd
Green Zone
The Gridiron Gang
Hachiko: A Dog's Story
Hannah Montana The Movie
The Haunting in Connecticut
Hollywoodland
I'M Not There
The Informant
Inglorious Basterds
In Pursuit of Happiness
Into the Wild
Invictus
Invincible
The Iron Lady
Jarhead
Julie & Julia
The King's Speech
Last King of Scotland
The Last Station
Life, Above All
Lonely Hearts
Machine Gun Preacher
Made in Dagenham
Marie Antoinette
Marley & Me
The Men Who Stare at Goats
The Mighty Heart
Miral
Miss Potter
Moneyball
Mrs. Henderson Presents
Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution
Munich
Nacho Libre
The Nativity Story
Never Let Me Go
The Night Listener
Notorious
Of Gods and Men
The Other Boleyn Girl
Pope Joan
Precious
Public Enemies
The Reader
Revolutionary Road
The Rite
The Runaways
Running with Scissors
Secretariat
The Social Network
Soul Surfer
The Stoning of Soroya M
Syriana
Take the Lead
Taking Woodstock
21
United 93
Unstoppable
Valkyrie
Wah-Wah
Walk The Line
We Bought A Zoo
The Way Back
World Trade Centre

Adapting a theme park ride
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl

Adapting videogames
Stay Alive
Doom
Hitman
Max Payne
Prince of Persia
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li
The King of the Fighters

Adapting toys
Bratz the Movie

Adapting short films
District 9

Adapting a television series
Edge of Darkness
Reno 911: Miami
Sex and the City
Speed racer
State of Play
X-Files: I Want to Believe

Adapting television films
Aeon Flux
Don't be Afraid of the Dark
Griffin and Phoenix
Miami Vice

Adapting a cartoon series
The Simpson's Movie
Tamara Drewe
Underdog

Adapting internet stories
Hard candy
Norbit

Adapting a radio series
The Green Hornet


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