Unsuccessful Movie Adaptations: How great novels were reduced to mediocre movies

Book to movie adaptations have been heavily popularized over the years of moviemaking. While there are several amazing adaptations out there that were, and arguably still are, widely successful, such as Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter. That, however, is not the case for all adaptations. The purpose of this thesis is to explore the reasons for why the book to movie adaptations did not do as well as expected, and therefore see why they did not achieve the “franchise status” they aspired to, in addition to considering if TV adaptations has become the new norm. Thomas Leitch’s Film Adaptation and Its Discontents: From Gone with the Wind to The Passion of the Christ, presents several reasons …