film adaptations
Novels become movies
Film adaptations are movies based on works from other media—novels, plays, comic books, video games.
The term usually implies some degree of transformation: condensing a long novel, expanding a short story, or translating stage conventions to screen.
The film adaptation disappointed fans of the book.
Adaptation quality is perennially debated, with purists often preferring originals.
- graphic novelBook-length illustrated sequential narrative
- video gameElectronic interactive visual entertainment
- comic bookBound illustrated story publication
- literary classicCelebrated work of lasting merit
- playRecreation or staged drama
page to screen · screenwriting · remake · novel · creative liberties · directing · director's vision · poem · reinterpretation · short story · casting · cinematography · modernization · critical acclaim · editing · biography · abridgment · mystery
- Shakespeare studiesKing Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night, Merchant of Venice
- musical theater formatssoundtracks, concert recordings, archival recordings, demo recordings
- cinemafilms, movies, movie, cinema, directors
- Theater & Filmacting, drama, stage, screen, actors
- film termsauteur, genre, celluloid, mise-en-scene, 35mm
- adaptationsTV adaptations, stage adaptations, novel adaptations, dramatization, live action remake
film adaptationsnovelizations
Books adapted from films
movie novelizations · tie-in novels · theatrical adaptations · source material