There’s an interesting flip to this–
There was a recent GI JOE vs. Transformers comic series by Tom Scioli that is absolutely insane and full of love. (It’s like a kid playing with all his toys). They recently put out a “movie adaptation” of the series which is supposed to be a comic version of the movie they’d have made based on this comic.
I have that comic book (or graphic novel, if you will, as it’s oversized and perfect bound.) It was what convinced me not to see the movie!
The recent comic-book treatment of the Doctor Strange movie was very good: faithful to the movie, but not slavishly so: there’s room for some creativity.
Jack Kirby’s treatment of 2001: A Space Odyssey is an odd duck (visually.) Some scenes are almost photographically faithful to scenes in the movie. But other scenes are wildly extrapolative.
When Marvel had the comic rights to Star Trek, they started their series in 1980 with an adaptation of Star Trek: The Motion Picture across the first three issues, starting original stories in #4. They ended their 18-issue run before Wrath of Khan was released.
DC picked up the rights and started their series in 1984. While running original stories for 56 issues plus three annuals, they published film adaptations as
specials:
The Search For Spock, 1984
The Voyage Home, 1987
The Final Frontier, 1989
The Undiscovered Country, 1992
Star Trek: Generations, 1994
Then Marvel got he rights back, apparently, because their adaptation of First Contact was published in 1996. Then nothing until IDW, as mentioned above, so I gather nobody thought enough of Insurrection and Nemesis to adapt them.
You can (or at one time could) get the Star Trek: Movie Comic Book Collection, containing all the above Marvel and DC adaptations, plus DC’s version of the TNG finale “All Good Things…” and Marvel’s entire 18-issue run.
Kim Deitch, the underground artist, did an adaptation of Eating Raoul. I seem to remember it coming out long after the film, but both were 1982. Most comics adaptations seem to be superhero-ey stuff (James Bond, Logan’s Run, Sheena Queen of the Jungle, etc.) but this is about as far from that as I can think of.
There were also some great adaptations in the 70s: *2001: A Space Odyssey *and MGM’s Marvelous Wizard of Oz come to mind.
Marvel did an adaptation of Who Framed Roger Rabbit? by Mark Evanier and Dan Spiegle. It had no recognizable cartoon characters (other than those created for the movie), which had to cut into its appeal.