Great books that had poor film adaptations

The 2016 premiere of tapes based on books like Fantastic animals and where to find them or, especially, the long-awaited version of The Girl on the Train starring Emily Blunt they will show if we are faced with worthy film adaptations of books that, either because of their quality or because of their reading appeal, did manage to triumph all over the world.

Or, also, perhaps they will thicken this list of great books that had poor film adaptations.

The Hobbit

Adapting a novel in a big way (see extending it to exhaustion $$$) was the worst option of the great Peter Jackson with respect to Tolkien's book with whose adaptation he tried to emulate the great lord of the rings trilogy. Considering that the first three-hour movie adapted the first six chapters and that the third installment was more filler than anything else, the big screen adaptation of The Hobbit was Hollywood's most blatant attempt to monetize a simple book and more. how worthy.

Alice in Wonderland

Despite becoming one of the highest grossing films in history, the Alice of Tim Burton He sinned from precisely what the director wanted in the film: "to ignore Alicia's constant curiosity and turn her into a heroine." And the thing is that what best characterized the work of Lewis Carroll was precisely the ignorance and surprise of a much more independent girl in that last version in which Johnny Depp's The Mad Hatter touched the shame of others and the moment "Lord of the Rings »Ruined the charm of the original story.

Love in the Time of Cholera

Adapt one of the most famous works of Gabriel García Márquez It was not an easy task, we admit it. But turning the story of Fermina Daza and Florentino Ariza into a Colombian telenovela that is too explicit for the novel at times when it was not necessary and lacking the imaginative and passionate claw of it in much of the footage did not like the critics and, much less, to the followers of this classic of Latin American literature. One of the worst adaptations we can remember.

The scarlet letter

One of the freer film adaptations that have been made of a literary work falls on this film starring a Demi Moore post striptease (and hotter than usual) as Hester Prynne, the liberal mother of a puritanical America in the late XNUMXth century who did not forgive her after having relationships with the Reverend Dimesdale (Gary Oldman). The film also allowed itself to change the ending, something that the readers did not forgive.

Queen of the Damned

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Following the success of Interview with the Vampire, Hollywood continued to monetize Anne Rice novels, and one of them, The Queen of the Damned, turned out to be one of the worst adaptations ever. We start with the deceased Aaliyah (a great singer but not such a good actress) in the role of Akasha, we continue with Stuart Townsed in the role of a Lestat that Tom Cruise had embroidered to perfection, and we continue with video clip aesthetics and many other nonsense that led to Anne herself Rice to disengage from the project.

These great books that had bad adaptations They show that Hollywood is not always right when it comes to putting stories on the big screen whose adaptation may be too risky an idea. Maybe some of you have missed The Da Vinci Code on the list although, in my opinion, the tape was a worthy adaptation of the book for readers. . . but not for those who never read Dan Brown's book. Matter of taste. . .

What's the worst movie adaptation of a book you've ever seen?