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Originally Posted by ThomWill
So, whilst we are hijacking the World Book Day thread, which was the worst book to movie translation (James Bond excluded because so many of the movies had NOTHING to do the the book):
Dune (the two hour Kyle McLachlan debacle) or The animated LOTR)? or others?
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Wow, this is a can 'o worms too! There are quite a few books-to-movies that I think were slaughtered in the process, to name a few recent ones (I try to forget the bad things in life, perhaps my conscious blocks them for me
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Battlefield: Earth - I read most of the series; the movie totally sucked and had little to do with the series.
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Eragon - I loved the books so far and the movie cut out so much of the book as it wasn't representable. I had such high hopes, but they were cut short pretty quickly.
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DaVinci Code - Again, picked wrong actor to portray main character and left out a lot of info.
Hope they don't butcher the Pulman series when it comes out; His Dark Materials - Amber Spyglass