THE AMBOY DUKES became CITY ACROSS THE RIVER
THE MAGNIFICENT BASTARD became THE PROUD AND THE PROFANE
A STONE FOR DANNY FISHER became KING CREOLE
The Water is Wide => Conrack (Pat Conroy)
The Boo => The Lords of Discipline (Pat Conroy)
The Great Santini => The Ace (only briefly) (Pat Conroy)
Hijack #1
HUZZAH!!! Somebody must have some sense then.
Hijack #2
Yesyes, it is lovely and wonderful… except for the fact that the Beast is a friggin cow wearing rags… I did hear it’s being readied for the big screen, but there’s no telling when it’ll actually be done.
'Nother book to movie:
The overwrought but entertaining Margaret George book The Memoirs of Cleopatra became the hideously painful miniseries Cleopatra. (Billy Zane as Marc Antony??? bleah!)
“Twinkle, Twinkle, Killer Kane” —> “The Ninth Configuration”
Here’s a few more for the list:
“Make Roon, Make Room” by Harry Harrison filmed as “Soylent Green”
“The Greatest Gift” by Philip Van Doren Stern filmed as “It’s a Wonderful Life”
“In God We Trust (All Others Pay Cash)” by Jean Sheppard filmed as “A Christmas Story”
btw, Jean Sheppard was the narrator of the film; fans of the film should track down the book-- the movie was only a small portion of the adventures and antics in the novel.
More title changes:
The Maltese Falcon was first filmed as “Satan Met A Lady”
If we’re allowed to do plays, “Casablanca” was based on “Everybody Goes to Rick’s”
If “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” is considered a title change, then we’ll have to include Andy Warhol’s movies.
Oh yes, Steve Martin redid Cyrano as “Roxanne” and "Silas Marner as “A Simple Twist of Fate”
pesch
Ooooh. pesch, you just turned me on to some (well, maybe) good shite. Thank you and welcome to the SDMB.
I just checked my “free to never effing return” library and discovered that my first Vintage edition of Falcon (the acid-free paper version) is AWOL.
[rant] That makes the ninth Hammett book that’s slipped away from me. The guy only wrote like six novels, plus anthologies. What am I, the effing Dashiell Hammett Welfare Department? That’s it, nobody’s getting my copy of Nightmare Town. [/rant]
Nevertheless, I remember Hammett’s first paragraph describes Sam Spade as “a blond Satan.”
It’s not really a novel, but the short story Super Toys Last All Summer Long is being turned into the Steven Spielberg movie A.I..
If I’m not mistaken, the movie Lords Of Discipline was taken from the book of the same title. From what I’ve heard, some of the experiences of the Cadets in TLOD were taken from Conroy’s time at the Citadel.
The Boo was a straightforward memoir if Conroy’s life at the Citadel, with an emphasis on his commanding officer, who was nicknamed The Boo.
Red Alert became Dr. Strangelove or:How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb. Definitely the best title change in history.
The Killer Department (not a novel, but a true story) became Citizen X.
I just noticed, four of Stanley Kubrick’s projects are listed here. I guess he had a thing for renaming his movies if the title didn’t suit his fancy.
FTR:
2001: A Space Odessey
Full Metal Jacket
Dr. Strangelove
A.I.
A check of the IMDb also revealed The Killing(1956), made from Lionel White’s novel Clean Break. Even Eyes Wide Shut was originally titled Traumnovelle (Arthur Schnitzler).
“La Morte d’Arthur” by Thomas Mallory (translated from the french) filmed as “Excalibur”
Sir Rhosis gets anal… sorry, pesch.
“Satan Met A Lady” from about 1936 was actually the second filming of “The Maltese Falcon” and the worst, they changed the falcon into a horn.
It was first (1931?) filmed fairly faithfully as “Dangerous Female.”
And, IIRC, the play was “Everybody Comes To Rick’s,” but I may be mistaken.
And to add to the OP, instead of just being picky… “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” dropped “Wonderful” when it was filmed, and the 1985 “Return To Oz was based on two of Baum’s books, “The Land of Oz” and Ozma of Oz.”
Sir
Forgot to mention another one. The Sheep Pig became Babe.