kindly suggests books or novels made into movies?

[Pinecone]

Originally Posted by HarryT

The majority of movies originate as books. It's probably easier to make a list of those that don't, rather than those that do.

Exactly

But some that I have the books of:

Band of Brothers
I, Robot
Fantastic Voyage
Absolute Power
Bridge over the River Kwai
Any number of Agatha Christie books
The Hunt for Red October
Patriot Games
Clear and Present Danger
The Sum of All Fears
2001: A Space Odyssey
2010: Odyssey 2
A Clockwork Orange
Blood Work
The Lincoln Lawyer
Coma
Outbreak
Flight of the Intruder
The Andromeda Strain
The Terminal Man
Congo
Sphere
Disclosure
Jurassic Park
The Lost World
Sahara
Raise the Titanic
The Bone Collector
The General's Daughter
The Three Musketeers
One for the Money
The entire James Bond series
Eye of the Needle
The Third Twin
Day of the Jackal
The Odessa File
Numerous John Grisham (The Firm, The Pelican Brief, Runaway Jury, etc)
The Silencers
Murderer's Row
The Wrecking Crew
Red Dragon
Silence of the Lambs
Hannibal
Make Room! Make Room! (movie was Soylent Green)
Puppet Masters
Destination Moon
Point of Impact
Phantom of the Opera
The Bourne series
Guns of Navarone
The Secret Ways
The Satan Bug
Ice Station Zebra
Where Eagles Dare
Force 10 from Navarone
Bear Island
Fear is the Key
South Pacific
Texas
Space
The Bridges at Toko-Ri
V.I Warshawski
Along Came a Spider
Kiss the Girls
Women's Murder Club series
Relic
The Longest Day
A Bridge Too Far
Dracula
Frankenstein
Gorky Park
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Around the World in 80 Days
A Journey to the Center of the Earth
The Mysterious Island
From the Earth to the Moon
War of the Worlds
The Invisible Man
The Time Machine
The Island of Doctor Moreau

[Pulpmeister]

I don't suppose anyone noticed that the movie Independence Day was a remake of H G Wells War of the Worlds. Ships arrive from somewhere, blow up everything in sight, before succumbing to a virus . . . computer virus, this time.

With the opening scene of giant ships sliding across the sky nicked from Childhoods End. Or, probably, from V, which nicked it from Childhoods End.

I liked the 53 version of WotW, with Gene Barry, gave me the creeps as a very small boy. The most recent version, with Tom Cruise, wasn't bad, but too long.

[Pinecone]

Originally Posted by zuul

I disagree Guns of Navarone, Where Eagles Dare and Breakheart Pass were well made adaptations.

Except Guns of Navarone changed the characters around (in the book, Miller was the only American with mainly Brits, reverse in movie). And the movie had to add a love interest and female.

Funny thing is, the book "Force 10 from Navarone" is actually a sequel to the movie, not the book, Guns of Navarone. But the movie goes off in another direction entirely.

Fear is the Key movie is almost exactly the book in screen.