I re-stumbled across Box Office Mojo's list of Top 48 Sci-Fi Films Based on a Book (or Story) (1980- present). Some of the titles on this list look suspicious. (Was Cocoon really based on a piece of written fiction? There's a difference between an adaptation and a novelization.)
Still, in looking over the list, I was surprised by how many of the originating stories I did read. Or start - there was one book I couldn't finish. Seemed like a good subject for a meme, so, here are the rules.
- Copy the list below.
- Mark in bold the movie titles for which you read the book.
- Italicize the movie titles for which you started the book but didn't finish it.
- Tag 5 people to perpetuate the meme. (You may of course play along anyway.)
- Jurassic Park
- War of the Worlds
- The Lost World: Jurassic Park
- I, Robot
- Contact
- Congo
- Cocoon
- The Stepford Wives
- The Time Machine
- Starship Troopers
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- K-PAX
- 2010
- The Running Man
- Sphere
- The Mothman Prophecies
- Dreamcatcher
- Blade Runner(Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)
- Dune
- The Island of Dr. Moreau
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers
- The Iron Giant(The Iron Man)
- Battlefield Earth
- The Incredible Shrinking Woman
- Fire in the Sky
- Altered States
- Timeline
- The Postman
- Freejack(Immortality, Inc.)
- Solaris
- Memoirs of an Invisible Man
- The Thing(Who Goes There?)
- The Thirteenth Floor
- Lifeforce(Space Vampires)
- Deadly Friend
- The Puppet Masters
- 1984
- A Scanner Darkly
- Creator
- Monkey Shines
- Solo(Weapon)
- The Handmaid's Tale
- Communion
- Carnosaur
- From Beyond
- Nightflyers
- Watchers
- Body Snatchers
- Mike Glyer of File 770.
- Fred Kiesche @ Texas Best Grok.
- Paul Raven at Futurismic.
- Joe Sherry of Adventures in Reading.
- Matt Staggs of Enter the Octopus.
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Posted by John DeNardo at Monday August 11, 2008 at 12:29 AM
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Was The Incredible Shrinking Women a real for sure novel or just a novelization of a bad movie?
Posted by Walt on Monday August 11, 2008 at 1:31 AM at 1:31 AM
There was Matheson's "Shrinking Man". IIRC, "Shrinking Woman" (the flick) was a sequel to the film based on that book, so if there's a book, I'd call it a "novelization". A search on the Internet SF Database does turn one up by a Jody Sibert, published 1981. The notes section quotes a blurb that says "A Fantastic Photoplay".
I'd say they should have mentioned the Richard Matheson's "The Shrinking Man" (1956).
Posted by Fred Kiesche on Monday August 11, 2008 at 6:26 AM at 6:26 AM
No I am Legend? That has got to be a fairly old list.
Posted by Jerry Gordon on Monday August 11, 2008 at 8:14 AM at 8:14 AM
Before I think about this, is Nightflyers based on the George R. R. Martin story? 
Posted by Joe Sherry on Monday August 11, 2008 at 9:33 AM at 9:33 AM
Nightflyers is based on the story. I've seen the movie and read the tale and have to get around to posting something about this meme-thingy.
The movie isn't half bad. I'll have to see if it ever hit DVD-dom.
Posted by Fred Kiesche on Monday August 11, 2008 at 12:59 PM at 12:59 PM
By the way, asked and answered and paid forward. Put up my reply and tagged five more folks.
Posted by Fred Kiesche on Monday August 11, 2008 at 8:00 PM at 8:00 PM