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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.

You may be forgetting Rising Sun or Ender's Game.



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I think it might be one of the only movies I liked where they change the ending from the book - or at least made it such that I could make sense out of it.


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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 Remington character was fabricated for the film, inspired partly by a real person who is barely mentioned in books on the subject. Douglas was a producer on the film and had the script re-written to make the amalgamation “Remington” role much bigger, took the role for himself, then forced edits to make his part bigger. He’s a tool, and the character very nearly ruined an otherwise good movie. I loved the story before the film was released, and I loved the film in spite of Michael Douglas.
 
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The Return Of The King

No Scouring of the Shire... Frown



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In high school kids often chose to watch the movie rather than read the book. You looked pretty stupid whent the teacher called you out on it,
 
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The movie "Die Hard" is based on the novel "Nothing Lasts Forever." 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.


I thought Leland survived—he was being wheeled into the ambulance at the end. And, the terrorist is named Gruber: Anton Gruber. He's not named Hans.

This was all influenced by The Towering Inferno. Roderick Thorp saw that movie, and that night he had a nightmare about being chased through a burning skyscraper by bad guys. He woke up and wrote the follow-up to his The Detective novel.

John McTiernen didn't want to direct the Nothing Lasts Forever movie because it was too dark and cynical. They changed the dynamics to make it more crowd-pleasing, such as making the terrorists into bond thieves.

I liked those cynical aspects. For instance, the daughter dies because of the fancy watch she got, signifying her corporate greed is what got her killed, unlike the watch falling off in the movie. Also, at the end, Sgt. Powell throws the a-hole deputy police chief into the line of fire, killing the chief and shielding Leland from Karl's gunfire. Then he states, "Well, he died a hero." That's a hilariously twisted scene that wouldn't have flown if enacted by Reginald VelJohnson's character.
 
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