From books… To films!

From books… To films!
Film adaptation is as common as the development of original screenplays and it includes the use of :

• non-fiction (including journalism)
• autobiography
• comic book
• plays
• other films

Film adaptation - the transfer of a written work to a feature film.
300 by Frank Miller (graphic novel)
Alice in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
The Bone Collector
by Jeffery Deaver
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
by F. Scott Fitzgerald(based on the short story)
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
by Judi and Ron Barrett
Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
Dune by Frank Herbert
The Exorcist
by William Peter Blatty
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
The Fellowship of the Ring
by J.R.R. Tolkien
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Nanny McPhee by Christianna Brand
(based on the “Nurse Matilda” book series)
Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving – based on the short story
The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Yes Man by Danny Wallace
Zathura: A Space Adventure
by Chris van Allsburg
One of the most popular film adaptations, with over 252 derived films (according to www.imdb.com) and the inspiration of countless parodies, cartoons, TV programmes is Dracula.
This famous character has entered the universal , collective imagination and is here to stay.
The phenomenon started with the publication of Dracula, an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker.
Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to relocate from Transylvania to England, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor Abraham van Helsing.
Stoker’s Dracula was influenced by:

• research on European folklore
• stories of vampires
• Emily Gerard's 1885 essay Transylvania Superstitions
• Sheridan Le Fanu's 1871 novel Carmilla
• Varney the Vampire, a lengthy serial by James Malcolm Rymer
• John Polidori’s 1819 novel The Vampyre, where the image of a vampire portrayed as an aristocratic man appeared for the first time

Historians have connected the character of Dracula to Vlad the Impaler, who reigned from 1456–1462 and is said to have killed from 40,000 to 100,000 European civilians (political rivals, criminals and anyone else he considered "useless to humanity"), mainly by using his favorite method of impaling them on a sharp pole.
Vlad the III rd is revered as a folk hero by Romanians for driving off the invading Turks. The numbers of his victims are most likely exaggerated.
The plot:
Jonathan Harker, a young English lawyer, travels to Transylvania to conclude a real estate transaction with a nobleman named Count Dracula. Although the elderly Dracula seems to be a well educated, hospitable gentleman, Harker realizes soon that he is held prisoner and that the count is actually undead. Harker escapes, but Dracula reaches England by boat and tracks down Mina, Harker’s fiancee and attacks her friend, Lucy. The expert van Helsing is called to deal with the disease Lucy seems to suffer from and not long passes before they find they are the victims of a vampire. The characters join forces and ultimately destroy the monster as it was trying to reach his home-castle.