Writers who disapproved of adaptations (film, stage, TV or other) of their works
Stephen King: He vocally disliked Kubrick’s The Shining among other adaptations.
Gore Vidal: Disowned the film version of Myra Breckinridge and called it “an awful joke” and claimed it killed sales of his book.
C. S. Lewis: Did not want the Narnia books made as plays or movies because he was afraid that Aslan as a pantomime lion would lose his fierceness. He might have approved of the CGI, though.
Christopher Tolkien, c.f. Peter Jackson’s Middle Earth films.
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange - he hated it so much he wished he’d never written the novella at all because he feels that it has been misinterpreted, glorified sex and violence and would regret it till the day he died.
Writers who disapproved of adaptations (film, stage, TV or other) of their works
Stephen King: He vocally disliked Kubrick’s The Shining among other adaptations.
Gore Vidal: Disowned the film version of Myra Breckinridge and called it “an awful joke” and claimed it killed sales of his book.
C. S. Lewis: Did not want the Narnia books made as plays or movies because he was afraid that Aslan as a pantomime lion would lose his fierceness. He might have approved of the CGI, though.
Christopher Tolkien, c.f. Peter Jackson’s Middle Earth films.
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange - he hated it so much he wished he’d never written the novella at all because he feels that it has been misinterpreted, glorified sex and violence and would regret it till the day he died.
Alan Moore - From Hell, Watchmen, V for Vendetta - regularly distances himself from any film adaptation of his works.
Writers who disapproved of adaptations (film, stage, TV or other) of their works
Stephen King: He vocally disliked Kubrick’s The Shining among other adaptations.
Gore Vidal: Disowned the film version of Myra Breckinridge and called it “an awful joke” and claimed it killed sales of his book.
C. S. Lewis: Did not want the Narnia books made as plays or movies because he was afraid that Aslan as a pantomime lion would lose his fierceness. He might have approved of the CGI, though.
Christopher Tolkien, c.f. Peter Jackson’s Middle Earth films.
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange - he hated it so much he wished he’d never written the novella at all because he feels that it has been misinterpreted, glorified sex and violence and would regret it till the day he died.
Alice Walker - felt that Spielberg’s * The Color Purple* was too Disney-like.
She wrote a book about the film entitled * The Same River Twice* that includes her rejected screenplay.
ETA: I’m on mobile; could somebody please fix by adding Eutychus’s/Alan Moore?
Writers who disapproved of adaptations (film, stage, TV or other) of their works
Stephen King: He vocally disliked Kubrick’s The Shining among other adaptations.
Gore Vidal: Disowned the film version of Myra Breckinridge and called it “an awful joke” and claimed it killed sales of his book.
C. S. Lewis: Did not want the Narnia books made as plays or movies because he was afraid that Aslan as a pantomime lion would lose his fierceness. He might have approved of the CGI, though.
Christopher Tolkien, c.f. Peter Jackson’s Middle Earth films.
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange - he hated it so much he wished he’d never written the novella at all because he feels that it has been misinterpreted, glorified sex and violence and would regret it till the day he died.
Alan Moore - From Hell, Watchmen, V for Vendetta - regularly distances himself from any film adaptation of his works.
Alice Walker - felt that Spielberg’s The Color Purple was too Disney-like.
Writers who disapproved of adaptations (film, stage, TV or other) of their works
Stephen King: He vocally disliked Kubrick’s The Shining among other adaptations.
Gore Vidal: Disowned the film version of Myra Breckinridge and called it “an awful joke” and claimed it killed sales of his book.
C. S. Lewis: Did not want the Narnia books made as plays or movies because he was afraid that Aslan as a pantomime lion would lose his fierceness. He might have approved of the CGI, though.
Christopher Tolkien, c.f. Peter Jackson’s Middle Earth films.
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange - he hated it so much he wished he’d never written the novella at all because he feels that it has been misinterpreted, glorified sex and violence and would regret it till the day he died.
Alan Moore - From Hell, Watchmen, V for Vendetta - regularly distances himself from any film adaptation of his works.
Alice Walker - felt that Spielberg’s The Color Purple was too Disney-like.
Mildred Wirt Benson, original writer of Nancy Drew, didn’t like how the character was updated (insufficiently “spunky”) by Harriet Stratemeyer Adams in later editions.
Writers who disapproved of adaptations (film, stage, TV or other) of their works
Stephen King: He vocally disliked Kubrick’s The Shining among other adaptations.
Gore Vidal: Disowned the film version of Myra Breckinridge and called it “an awful joke” and claimed it killed sales of his book.
C. S. Lewis: Did not want the Narnia books made as plays or movies because he was afraid that Aslan as a pantomime lion would lose his fierceness. He might have approved of the CGI, though.
Christopher Tolkien, c.f. Peter Jackson’s Middle Earth films.
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange - he hated it so much he wished he’d never written the novella at all because he feels that it has been misinterpreted, glorified sex and violence and would regret it till the day he died.
Alan Moore - From Hell, Watchmen, V for Vendetta - regularly distances himself from any film adaptation of his works.
Alice Walker - felt that Spielberg’s The Color Purple was too Disney-like.
Mildred Wirt Benson, original writer of Nancy Drew, didn’t like how the character was updated (insufficiently “spunky”) by Harriet Stratemeyer Adams in later editions.
Pierre Boulle, Bridge Over the River Kwai, who hated David Lean’s movie adaption since the ending was completely opposite from the book… Oddly, though, Boulle was credited as the screenwriter of the movie, since the real writers were under the hollywood blacklist.
]Writers who disapproved of adaptations (film, stage, TV or other) of their works
Stephen King: He vocally disliked Kubrick’s The Shining among other adaptations.
Gore Vidal: Disowned the film version of Myra Breckinridge and called it “an awful joke” and claimed it killed sales of his book.
C. S. Lewis: Did not want the Narnia books made as plays or movies because he was afraid that Aslan as a pantomime lion would lose his fierceness. He might have approved of the CGI, though.
Christopher Tolkien, c.f. Peter Jackson’s Middle Earth films.
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange - he hated it so much he wished he’d never written the novella at all because he feels that it has been misinterpreted, glorified sex and violence and would regret it till the day he died.
Alan Moore - From Hell, Watchmen, V for Vendetta - regularly distances himself from any film adaptation of his works.
Alice Walker - felt that Spielberg’s The Color Purple was too Disney-like.
Mildred Wirt Benson, original writer of Nancy Drew, didn’t like how the character was updated (insufficiently “spunky”) by Harriet Stratemeyer Adams in later editions.
Pierre Boulle, Bridge Over the River Kwai, who hated David Lean’s movie adaption since the ending was completely opposite from the book… Oddly, though, Boulle was credited as the screenwriter of the movie, since the real writers were under the hollywood blacklist
Larry L.L. King who called the movie verzion of his play “Smokey and the Bandit Go to the Whorehiuse” (he wanted Willie Nelson and Shirley Maclaine in the lead roles)
Writers who disapproved of adaptations (film, stage, TV or other) of their works
Stephen King: He vocally disliked Kubrick’s The Shining among other adaptations.
Gore Vidal: Disowned the film version of Myra Breckinridge and called it “an awful joke” and claimed it killed sales of his book.
C. S. Lewis: Did not want the Narnia books made as plays or movies because he was afraid that Aslan as a pantomime lion would lose his fierceness. He might have approved of the CGI, though.
Christopher Tolkien, c.f. Peter Jackson’s Middle Earth films.
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange - he hated it so much he wished he’d never written the novella at all because he feels that it has been misinterpreted, glorified sex and violence and would regret it till the day he died.
Alan Moore - From Hell, Watchmen, V for Vendetta - regularly distances himself from any film adaptation of his works.
Alice Walker - felt that Spielberg’s The Color Purple was too Disney-like.
Mildred Wirt Benson, original writer of Nancy Drew, didn’t like how the character was updated (insufficiently “spunky”) by Harriet Stratemeyer Adams in later editions.
Pierre Boulle, Bridge Over the River Kwai, who hated David Lean’s movie adaption since the ending was completely opposite from the book… Oddly, though, Boulle was credited as the screenwriter of the movie, since the real writers were under the hollywood blacklist
Larry L.L. King who called the movie verzion of his play “Smokey and the Bandit Go to the Whorehiuse” (he wanted Willie Nelson and Shirley Maclaine in the lead roles)
Ursula K. LeGuin denounced the TV version of her famous novel Wizard of Earthsea, partly because they cast all the main roles with white actors and actresses when she’d gone to some lengths to not have Caucasian protagonists
Writers who disapproved of adaptations (film, stage, TV or other) of their works
Stephen King: He vocally disliked Kubrick’s The Shining among other adaptations.
Gore Vidal: Disowned the film version of Myra Breckinridge and called it “an awful joke” and claimed it killed sales of his book.
C. S. Lewis: Did not want the Narnia books made as plays or movies because he was afraid that Aslan as a pantomime lion would lose his fierceness. He might have approved of the CGI, though.
Christopher Tolkien, c.f. Peter Jackson’s Middle Earth films.
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange - he hated it so much he wished he’d never written the novella at all because he feels that it has been misinterpreted, glorified sex and violence and would regret it till the day he died.
Alan Moore - From Hell, Watchmen, V for Vendetta - regularly distances himself from any film adaptation of his works.
Alice Walker - felt that Spielberg’s The Color Purple was too Disney-like.
Mildred Wirt Benson, original writer of Nancy Drew, didn’t like how the character was updated (insufficiently “spunky”) by Harriet Stratemeyer Adams in later editions.
Pierre Boulle, Bridge Over the River Kwai, who hated David Lean’s movie adaption since the ending was completely opposite from the book… Oddly, though, Boulle was credited as the screenwriter of the movie, since the real writers were under the hollywood blacklist
Larry L.L. King who called the movie verzion of his play “Smokey and the Bandit Go to the Whorehiuse” (he wanted Willie Nelson and Shirley Maclaine in the lead roles)
Ursula K. LeGuin denounced the TV version of her famous novel Wizard of Earthsea, partly because they cast all the main roles with white actors and actresses when she’d gone to some lengths to not have Caucasian protagonists
Tom Clancy - said that authors need to accept that movies adapt the Reader’s Digest Condensed version of novels.
Writers who disapproved of adaptations (film, stage, TV or other) of their works
Stephen King: He vocally disliked Kubrick’s The Shining among other adaptations.
Gore Vidal: Disowned the film version of Myra Breckinridge and called it “an awful joke” and claimed it killed sales of his book.
C. S. Lewis: Did not want the Narnia books made as plays or movies because he was afraid that Aslan as a pantomime lion would lose his fierceness. He might have approved of the CGI, though.
Christopher Tolkien, c.f. Peter Jackson’s Middle Earth films.
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange - he hated it so much he wished he’d never written the novella at all because he feels that it has been misinterpreted, glorified sex and violence and would regret it till the day he died.
Alan Moore - From Hell, Watchmen, V for Vendetta - regularly distances himself from any film adaptation of his works.
Alice Walker - felt that Spielberg’s The Color Purple was too Disney-like.
Mildred Wirt Benson, original writer of Nancy Drew, didn’t like how the character was updated (insufficiently “spunky”) by Harriet Stratemeyer Adams in later editions.
Pierre Boulle, Bridge Over the River Kwai, who hated David Lean’s movie adaption since the ending was completely opposite from the book… Oddly, though, Boulle was credited as the screenwriter of the movie, since the real writers were under the hollywood blacklist
Larry L.L. King who called the movie verzion of his play “Smokey and the Bandit Go to the Whorehiuse” (he wanted Willie Nelson and Shirley Maclaine in the lead roles)
Ursula K. LeGuin denounced the TV version of her famous novel Wizard of Earthsea, partly because they cast all the main roles with white actors and actresses when she’d gone to some lengths to not have Caucasian protagonists
Tom Clancy - said that authors need to accept that movies adapt the Reader’s Digest Condensed version of novels.
Tennessee Williams hate the film adaption of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. He proclaimed, “This movie will set the industry back 50 years. Go Home!!”
Now, in honor of the XXII Winter Olympic Games in Sochi in 7 weeks, lets compile or list of our 13 favorite WINTER Olympic Memories.
I will never forget Franz Klammer (Austria) in his go-for-broke performance on the Men’s Downhill Ski event at the 1976 Olympics at Innsbruck.
(Restating the category – I hope you don’t mind, Bellhorn.
In honor of the XXII Winter Olympic Games in Sochi in 7 weeks, our 13 favorite WINTER Olympic Memories.
I will never forget Franz Klammer (Austria) in his go-for-broke performance on the Men’s Downhill Ski event at the 1976 Olympics at Innsbruck.
Dan Jansen finally triumphs: after failing in 1988 (Calgary) and 1992 (Albertville) as a favorite, he gets gold and sets a WR in 500 m speed skating in 1994 (Lillehammer).
In honor of the XXII Winter Olympic Games in Sochi in 7 weeks, our 13 favorite WINTER Olympic Memories.
I will never forget Franz Klammer (Austria) in his go-for-broke performance on the Men’s Downhill Ski event at the 1976 Olympics at Innsbruck.
Dan Jansen finally triumphs: after failing in 1988 (Calgary) and 1992 (Albertville) as a favorite, he gets gold and sets a WR in 500 m speed skating in 1994 (Lillehammer).
1985’s Battle of the Carmens, with Katerina Witt winning the gold over Debi Thomas.
In honor of the XXII Winter Olympic Games in Sochi in 7 weeks, our 13 favorite WINTER Olympic Memories.
I will never forget Franz Klammer (Austria) in his go-for-broke performance on the Men’s Downhill Ski event at the 1976 Olympics at Innsbruck.
Dan Jansen finally triumphs: after failing in 1988 (Calgary) and 1992 (Albertville) as a favorite, he gets gold and sets a WR in 500 m speed skating in 1994 (Lillehammer).
1985’s Battle of the Carmens, with Katerina Witt winning the gold over Debi Thomas.
1980, The Miracle on Ice: "Do you believe in miracles? YES!!!"
In honor of the XXII Winter Olympic Games in Sochi in 7 weeks, our 13 favorite WINTER Olympic Memories.
I will never forget Franz Klammer (Austria) in his go-for-broke performance on the Men’s Downhill Ski event at the 1976 Olympics at Innsbruck.
Dan Jansen finally triumphs: after failing in 1988 (Calgary) and 1992 (Albertville) as a favorite, he gets gold and sets a WR in 500 m speed skating in 1994 (Lillehammer).
1985’s Battle of the Carmens, with Katerina Witt winning the gold over Debi Thomas.
1980, The Miracle on Ice: "Do you believe in miracles? YES!!!"
In honor of the XXII Winter Olympic Games in Sochi in 7 weeks, our 13 favorite WINTER Olympic Memories.
I will never forget Franz Klammer (Austria) in his go-for-broke performance on the Men’s Downhill Ski event at the 1976 Olympics at Innsbruck.
Dan Jansen finally triumphs: after failing in 1988 (Calgary) and 1992 (Albertville) as a favorite, he gets gold and sets a WR in 500 m speed skating in 1994 (Lillehammer).
1985’s Battle of the Carmens, with Katerina Witt winning the gold over Debi Thomas.
1980, The Miracle on Ice: “Do you believe in miracles? YES!!!”
The Sonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan incident 1994
Jean-Claude Killy in 1968, sweeps all three Men’s Alpine Skiing events in the Olympics held in his home country of France (Grenoble) what a stud!
In honor of the XXII Winter Olympic Games in Sochi in 7 weeks, our 13 favorite WINTER Olympic Memories.
I will never forget Franz Klammer (Austria) in his go-for-broke performance on the Men’s Downhill Ski event at the 1976 Olympics at Innsbruck.
Dan Jansen finally triumphs: after failing in 1988 (Calgary) and 1992 (Albertville) as a favorite, he gets gold and sets a WR in 500 m speed skating in 1994 (Lillehammer).
1985’s Battle of the Carmens, with Katerina Witt winning the gold over Debi Thomas.
1980, The Miracle on Ice: “Do you believe in miracles? YES!!!”
The Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan incident 1994
Jean-Claude Killy in 1968, sweeps all three Men’s Alpine Skiing events in the Olympics held in his home country of France (Grenoble) what a stud!
In honor of the XXII Winter Olympic Games in Sochi in 7 weeks, our 13 favorite WINTER Olympic Memories.
I will never forget Franz Klammer (Austria) in his go-for-broke performance on the Men’s Downhill Ski event at the 1976 Olympics at Innsbruck.
Dan Jansen finally triumphs: after failing in 1988 (Calgary) and 1992 (Albertville) as a favorite, he gets gold and sets a WR in 500 m speed skating in 1994 (Lillehammer).
1985’s Battle of the Carmens, with Katerina Witt winning the gold over Debi Thomas.
1980, The Miracle on Ice: “Do you believe in miracles? YES!!!”
The Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan incident 1994
Jean-Claude Killy in 1968, sweeps all three Men’s Alpine Skiing events in the Olympics held in his home country of France (Grenoble) what a stud!
