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   Francisca Staines (franciscawrites@mastodon.scot)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 22:12:18 JST Francisca Staines

   Can you name a film that was adapted not from a novel, but from a short story?
   Here's one:

   The Illusionist (2006)

   #writingcommunity @bookstodon #moviesandbooks #film #AdaptedFromaBook

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 22:12:16 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     @franciscawrites @bookstodon

     Hellraiser was adapted by Clive Barker from his own novella, The Hellbound Heart.

     (It's 30,000 words, okay?)

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 22:32:15 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     • Drew

     @drawnonglass @franciscawrites @bookstodon

     Rawhead Rex was really done dirty.

     Although honestly, Hellraiser expands on the imagery of his early short film The Forbidden so well, it would have been a shame if something hadn't pushed him into making a feature.

     https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077571/

     And I'm suddenly reminded that I need to replace my VHS copy with a DVD.

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     Drew (drawnonglass@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 22:32:16 JST Drew

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     • 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

     @HauntedOwlbear @franciscawrites @bookstodon And directing that film was (according to several interviews) a response to someone else making a terrible movie out of the short story "Rawhead Rex"

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     Francisca Staines (franciscawrites@mastodon.scot)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 22:38:20 JST Francisca Staines

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     • Drew

     @drawnonglass @HauntedOwlbear @bookstodon
     Good motivation to do it, risky move, though. It paid off, probably because he was familiar with writing scripts.

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 22:38:20 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     • Drew

     @franciscawrites @drawnonglass @bookstodon

     There's a lot to be said for a theatrical background. I have one of the compilations of his scripts, and there's a great deal of consistency of vision between his theatrical, literary and cinematic approaches, IMO.

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     Jan Bartosik (janbartosik@witter.cz)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 18:28:02 JST Jan Bartosik

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     • Adriano

     @franciscawrites @adriano @gevoel @octothorpe @bookstodon While I would agree with the typical Hollywood twisting of books, I also have to say I have enjoyed the Foundation TV show. Which is a rare thing for my nerdy bookworm soul :)

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     Francisca Staines (franciscawrites@mastodon.scot)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 18:28:03 JST Francisca Staines

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     • Adriano

     @adriano @gevoel @octothorpe @bookstodon
     The Foundation Series are full-grown novels not short stories. Regardless, I haven't seen the series but have no doubt Hollywood has done its thing again and turning them into the opposite of what the source material was about.

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     Francisca Staines (franciscawrites@mastodon.scot)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 18:28:04 JST Francisca Staines

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     • Gerard van Oel 🍋
     • CM Harrington

     @gevoel @octothorpe @bookstodon Yes, from Issac Asimov. Sadly, the adaptation goes against everything he stood for.

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     Adriano (adriano@lile.cl)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 18:28:04 JST Adriano

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     • Gerard van Oel 🍋
     • CM Harrington

     @franciscawrites @gevoel @octothorpe @bookstodon Seems consistent. Foundation is a series based on his short stories (then made into a book series) and it goes against the whole thing he wrote about.

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     CM Harrington (octothorpe@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 18:28:06 JST CM Harrington

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     @franciscawrites @bookstodon Blade Runner.

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     Gerard van Oel 🍋 (gevoel@mastodon.green)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 18:28:06 JST Gerard van Oel 🍋

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     • CM Harrington

     @octothorpe @bookstodon @franciscawrites I, Robot.
     From a collection of short stories.