I remember reading Jaws in college and then seeing the movie. In the book, sheriff Brody is the only one left alive in the end. Robert Shaw's and Richard Dryfuss' characters both died.

In The Friends of Eddie Coyle, in the book, the girlfriend of one of the bank robbers turned them in. In the movie, it was Peter Boyle's character, Dillon.

And in The Getaway, the movie had Steve McQueen and Ali McGraw escaping safely to .. someplace, courtesy Slim Picken's truck.

In the book the criminals were left hiding in some outhouse ish place thinking that romanticizing a criminal lifestyle isn't too smart after all.

That's what I remember but, like I said, that was a long time ago and I've slept since then.

Just thought I'd share that.

Going the other direction, I admit I am hoping that the last book in the Game of Thrones series (when/if it ever comes out) changes the ending from the show.

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Originally posted by joel9507:
Going the other direction, I admit I am hoping that the last book in the Game of Thrones series (when/if it ever comes out) changes the ending from the show.

I had earlier read that the GOT writers had another gig that conflicted with GOT. They threw the ending together to accommodate their schedule.

It also seems I read that same thing happened with the writers of the TV series "Lost."

In ‘The Blue Max’ Stackel doesn’t die flying th “secret prototype”, the squadron commander does. One of the last things mentioned in the book is a passerby, looking in the window of a tavern, se Stackel sitting at the bar chatting with Herman Goering. When the movie was made the author was very angry about the changes and was told “We bought the rights, it’s ours now”.

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Originally posted by Biker_dude:
I remember reading Jaws in college and then seeing the movie. In the book, sheriff Brody is the only one left alive in the end. Robert Shaw's and Richard Dryfuss' characters both died.

I read the book in high school maybe a year after the movie came out. I did not see Jaws in the theater in its first release, but saw it on a VHS rental tape in the early 80s. Another plot point excluded from the film was the affair between Hooper and Brody's wife, they only met once in the film, talking in the kitchen.

I also read Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton before the movie, it was a very popular book when it was first released. And the film drastically changed the ending- instead of Hammond and Malcolm dying and the island blown up, both survive and and the group simply leaves the island in Spielberg's version.

Aliens vs Predator. About 97% of the movie is different from the original Dark Horse Comics mini-series, including the ending. The heroine is supposed to leave with the Predator ship and become a huntress.

In the book version of The Natural, Hobbs takes the bribe and ends up striking out, ending the season for the Knights. Unfortunately for him, the journalist guy finds out about his "deal". No Disney ending for him.

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The Mist.

They just drive away into the unending mist in the short story. The movie ending was pretty messed up, but it worked.

In the novel I Am Legend, Neville swallows some suicide pills and reflects how he will become a legend to the new vampire people as one of the last "normal" humans.

In the movie, he becomes a legend by sacrificing himself but saving the cure and thus the human race.

Bridge on the River Kwai. Col. Nicholson saves the bridge when the commandos kill Col. Saito.

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Originally posted by joel9507:
Going the other direction, I admit I am hoping that the last book in the Game of Thrones series (when/if it ever comes out) changes the ending from the show.

Also "as an aside" I read that the book "The Ghost And The Darkness" merely referred to Remington in passing with little or no fanfare.

Then, Michael Douglas' production company got the script to be made into a movie and Douglas wrote in a major character re Remington as a role for himself.

The book's author was livid and said Douglas ruined the story. Douglas' massive ego strikes again.

The Grapes of Wrath:
While the film ends with the Joad family finding a clean, government-run camp and Ma Joad delivering an uplifting speech, the novel concludes with a much more devastating scene where Rose of Sharon nurses a starving man with her breast milk after giving birth to a stillborn child.

In The Last of the Mohicans:
David, the psalmist, is completely eliminated from the movie. Colonel Munro doesn't die in the book while he has his heart cut out by Magua midway through the movie. In the book, Cora dies at the end, killed by a rogue Huron at the top of a ravine, not Alice. In the book, Duncan lives. Earlier in the book he actually asked Colonel Munro to marry Alice, not Cora. Both versions kill off Uncas.

In the movie, Chingachkook kills Magua in hand-to-hand combat. In the book, Magua tries to escape by jumping across a ravine but falls short and grasps to life by gripping a shrub. Hawkeye avenges Uncas and Cora by shooting Magua who loses his grip and falls to his death.

Tony.

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Originally posted by Biker_dude:

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Originally posted by joel9507:
Going the other direction, I admit I am hoping that the last book in the Game of Thrones series (when/if it ever comes out) changes the ending from the show.

Also "as an aside" I read that the book "The Ghost And The Darkness" merely referred to Remington in passing with little or no fanfare.

Then, Michael Douglas' production company got the script to be made into a movie and Douglas wrote in a major character re Remington as a role for himself.

The book's author was livid and said Douglas ruined the story. Douglas' massive ego strikes again.

I just watched that the other day, and for real Douglas' introduction is like an entirely different movie. The tone suddenly changes, it becomes very Hollywood. It's not a bad movie, but it could have been a lot better had they at least toned down the Remington part.

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Originally posted by Biker_dude:

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Originally posted by joel9507:
Going the other direction, I admit I am hoping that the last book in the Game of Thrones series (when/if it ever comes out) changes the ending from the show.

Also "as an aside" I read that the book "The Ghost And The Darkness" merely referred to Remington in passing with little or no fanfare.

Then, Michael Douglas' production company got the script to be made into a movie and Douglas wrote in a major character re Remington as a role for himself.

The book's author was livid and said Douglas ruined the story. Douglas' massive ego strikes again.

I just watched that the other day, and for real Douglas' introduction is like an entirely different movie. The tone suddenly changes, it becomes very Hollywood. It's not a bad movie, but it could have been a lot better had they at least toned down the Remington part.

Excellent summary.

It has been decades, but I seem to recall that the movie version of A Clockwork Orange did not end the same way as the book version.

IIRC, the last chapter of the book was left out of the film which changed the ending.

The movie "Die Hard" is based on the novel "Nothing Lasts Forever." In the novel, the McClain character is named Leland and he's a much older, retired cop. Leland's daughter -- not his wife -- is taken hostage by the terrorists, who in the novel are really terrorists out for political sabotage, not money. When the terrorist leader who is named Anton -- not Gruber -- falls from the building he takes Leland's daughter with him. Leland, himself, also doesn't survive the final shootout.

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Originally posted by Biker_dude:
And in The Getaway, the movie had Steve McQueen and Ali McGraw escaping safely to .. someplace, courtesy Slim Picken's truck.

In the book the criminals were left hiding in some outhouse ish place thinking that romanticizing a criminal lifestyle isn't too smart after all.

That's what I remember but, like I said, that was a long time ago and I've slept since then.

Just thought I'd share that.

In the novel, "The Getaway," Doc and his girl do spend a hellish period of time in a claustrophobic hole underground, but then they escape that to go to a gangsters' refuge town called El Rey, where the novel takes a turn to magical realism. El Rey is like something out of the Twilight Zone; a surreal place where the proprietors squeeze dry the escaped gangsters who seek refuge there and then banish them to slums. The novel ends with Doc and his girlfriend thinking it will only be a matter of time until they are killed or kill each other to survive another day.

Not an ending, but in the book World War Z the Zombies are Shamblers like The Walking Dead.
In the movie they are Scramblers like the mutants in I Am Legend. Very fast.

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Not an ending, but in the book World War Z the Zombies are Shamblers like The Walking Dead.
In the movie they are Scramblers like the mutants in I Am Legend. Very fast.

The WWZ movie may be the biggest abomination of a book by a movie. Maybe Ready Player One comes close to it.
They changed so much in these 2 movies they were almost unrecognizable as the same story in the books.

Possibly the only time that I didn't dislike the movie changing the book ending was The Firm by John Grisham. The book was fantastic, but the movie ending allowed the protagonist to keep his law license. Both endings were good, but I think I liked the movie ending better.


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