I came in here to post The Lost World as well. Beyond Malcolm surviving, the book was basically a sequel to the movie and not the book.
And buried, and his grave firebombed into oblivion. But hey, minor details.
The concept of organic web shooters had come up numerous times in the comics though, long before the movie was ever made. But as always with comics, they wound up reset after the story arc was over.
Superman’s still-living foster parents actually has its roots in the comics – in the late 60s/early70s, DC apparently felt that Ma and Pa Kent weren’t “connecting” enough with the kids, and they made them significantly younger and longer-0lived.
One of the media-induced changes I hated was after the 1960s TV version of Batman came out, was wildly popular, and they changed the comic books to match, introducing Aunt Hattie and all the camp elements to the comics. What made this particularly annoying was that they had just “revamped” Batman’s image, making a big change from the stodgy 1950s-image Batman. They replaced his huge, clunky Batmobile with a faster and sportier Batmobile, made him more athletic and got rid of all those “fighting among giant props” stories and the sci-fi “aliens” story lines. Batman was getting back to his roots as a tough, fast, intelligent crime-fighter. Then they dropped Adam West and the TV buffoonery on him. He didn’t recover until the 1970s.
The 2007 Broadway revival of Grease incorporated the 4 songs which were specifically written for the 1978 film. It also changed the names of the gangs to those used in the film.
Short 0lives are the worst.
Richard Gordon’s ‘Doctor’ series was heavily influenced by the film adaptations.
The first book in the series - Doctor in the House - had Richard Gordon as the main character and Sir Lancelot Spratt as a balding, ginger Scot who left the hospital to die of cancer.
The film version had Dirk Bogarde as the main character who had been renamed Simon Sparrow and James Robertson Justice as Sir Lancelot, who wasn’t ginger or balding and remaining very much alive.
Later books in the series saw the main character renamed Sparrow and Sir Lancelot back from the grave, looking and acting very much like the JRJ version.
The TV series version of the Sharpe series staring Sean Bean (or at least, the actor’s potrayal of the character) influenced the author in his portrayal of Sharpe; in fact, the author dedicated one of his subsequent Sharpe novels to the actor.
Moreover:
I believe current stage productions of Glengarry Glen Ross include the Alec Baldwin scene, which was not part of the original Broadway script.
Not quite. Clarke and Kubrick worked together on the story for a long, long time originally. The book - which Clarke offered Kubrick co-authorship of - was done long before the movie came out, and Clarke was quite frustrated at having to delay the release, because he needed the money. He got it eventually. The movie did have Discovery going to Saturn, but they couldn’t create an acceptable Saturn to film and fell back to Jupiter.
And of course 2010 had Discovery in orbit around Jupiter.
The later MASH books that Richard Hooker wrote (not to be confused with the ones spun off from the series) had Hawkeye rabidly Republican seemingly to contrast him with the sensitive New Age guy version from Alda. So he went in the other direction.
Right, but did her hair every get nice in the books? I thought the only little thing she kept was smaller teeth.
Ford was much too old for the role as written. Baldwin was the perfect age and did very well in the role.
Hammond died and was eaten at the end of the first book too but they wanted to bring Attenborough back.
In his commentary on Game of Thrones George RR Martin says that he will be writing more than he intended for the character of Osha because he was so struck by the character as interpreted by Natalia Tena.
That MAY be done sometimes, but a few years ago, when I saw the Broadway revival (starring Alan Alda), they did not include Blake’s motivational speech.
I’d HOPED they would!
P.D. James loved Roy Marsden’s performance as Adam Dalgliesh on TV, and says she started giving Dalgliesh some of Marsden’s characteristics in her later books.
I haven’t read either of Winston Groom’s “Forrest Gump” novels, but I’ve heard that Jenny doesn’t die in his first book. However, when he wrote the sequel, he chose to pick up where the MOVIE left off, and Jenny was, in fact, dead.
That reminds me: as I recall, Superman’s original power actually was “leaping tall buildings in a single bound.” He didn’t fly, he just jumped really high and far. Then the Max Fleischer cartoons came out in the early 1940s, and jumping looked silly, so they got DC’s permission to have him fly instead. DC liked the change, and henceforth Supes has been free of the bonds of gravity.
Media influenced him in other ways, too. Before he was on radio, Superman had Lois and Perry as accompanying characters. Jimmy Olsen was introduced essentially so that Clark/Superman would have someone to talk to to advance the plot (radio is all about dialogue and sound efects).
Thereby explaining the miserable failure of my college radio magic show.
That doesn’t actually contradict what I said - it simply clarified the two points I was unsure on (where the treatment was set, and whether they held the book off until after the movie).