Because, ultimately, the only narrators of a movie are the camera and the characters through their dialogues, which leads to true challenges to introduce all the events from a book.
Well, not necessarily. While it's true that there are many movies based on books, there are also movies that become books (movie tie-ins), and there are stories that are first written as a screenplay before they're written as a manuscript.
The first recorded film based on literature was the 1899 movie Cinderella, directed by French director Georges Méliès in 1899. The film was adapted from the original Cinderella text written by French author Charles Perrault and was the first ever film adaptation of the classic tale.
1. Background Information: Introducing "Logistics" The longest movie ever made is titled "Logistics" and was first released in 2012. This experimental film was conceived and directed by two Swedish artists, Erika Magnusson, and Daniel Andersson.
Roundhay Garden Scene is a short silent motion picture filmed by French inventor Louis Le Prince at Oakwood Grange in Roundhay, Leeds, in northern England on 14 October 1888. It is believed to be the oldest surviving film.
Now, let's not get it twisted. The film version of Star Wars is not secretly based on a 1976 book by Alan Dean Foster. Even though the book came out before the movie, Foster was hired by George Lucas to write a tie-in novelization of Lucas's screenplay. The book hit shelves early because Star Wars, the film, was late.
1 Stephen King — 34
Stephen King has written at least 34 works that have been adapted into movies, beginning with 1976's Carrie and ending with 2017's remake of It. He has also written original screenplays and episodic TV which have been adapted over the last 40 years.
Furthermore, books are much more detailed than films. Usually a film lasts approximately two hours while in a book there can be hundreds (maybe thousands) of pages of description. Books also develop their characters much more and add multiple dimensions to them; such as detailing their emotions and thoughts.
Most of the time books are better than movies. Books can let you imagine the setting or events happening in the story. They are also more detailed than movies because movies sometimes leave out some important details. In some movies, they switch up the characters because in the book they are different and totally the…
1 Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)
In 2021, director Quentin Tarantino published a novel version of the movie.
We know better than to believe every detail or line of dialogue—movies are always a fiction in the broad sense—and that filmmakers who are dealing with real-life events need to take liberties.
Established popular books are a comparably faster and data-supported way for studios to develop film and TV plots. As more studios compete to have the next Game of Thrones or The Walking Dead, it's easier to turn to a completed work and fully envisioned (and beloved) world than to develop a story in-house.
Many academics, most notably author Christopher Booker, believe there are only seven basic narrative plots in all of storytelling – frameworks that are recycled again and again in fiction but populated by different settings, characters, and conflicts.
*According to sources published at the time the prequels came out, Anakin was 20 in Episode II, but 9 in Episode I, which took place ten years earlier. The explanation for this was that he turned ten right after Episode I, and the two movies are actually about ten years and one month apart.
J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 The Hobbit and 1954–55 The Lord of the Rings novels inspired George Lucas's creation of Star Wars in 1977.
In 1993, Steven Spielberg received the rights to the novel and adapted it into the blockbuster film Jurassic Park. Following the first film's release, as well as it's critical and commercial success, Spielberg adapted the book's sequel, The Lost World, into a film in 1997.
discussed in biography. … released India's first silent film, Raja Harishchandra, a work based on Hindu mythology. The film, scripted, produced, directed, and distributed by Phalke, was a huge success and an important milestone in Indian cinematic history.
Just a few years after the first filmmakers emerged in the mid-1890s, Mellies created “Le Manoir du Diable,” sometimes known in English as “The Haunted Castle” or “ The House of the Devil,” in 1896, and it is widely believed to be the first horror movie.
FIRST MOVIE EVER MADE IN COLOR
The first commercially produced film in natural color was A Visit to the Seaside (1908). The eight-minute British short film used the Kinemacolor process to capture a series of shots of the Brighton Southern England seafront.