32 Authors Who Loved (or Loathed) the Movie and TV Adaptations of Their Work

Those Hollywood bigwigs better nail the film adaptation of this list!
32 Authors Who Loved (or Loathed) the Movie and TV Adaptations of Their Work

Once we sell producers the film rights to this list, it’s really out of our hands. They can do whatever they want with it, and we just have to wait till the premiere like everyone else. 

Could they have kept us on as consultants? Sure. But apparently that “might greatly annoy the director.” Guess we’ll try to keep busy and just hope they don’t massacre our fine, fine list of loved and loathed adaptations.

Bret Easton Ellis

American Psycho AMERI- CAN PSYCHO BRET EASTON ELLIS CRACKED.COM Author Bret Easton Ellis thought having a female director doomed the film from the start, because film requires the male gaze.

Dr. Seuss

The Cat In The Hat THE CAT IN THE HAT By Dr. Seuss CRACKED.COM Dr. Seuss' widow, Audrey Geisel, was so scandalized that she refused to allow any more live-action adaptations of her husband's work.

Michael Ende

The Neverending Story Michael Ende Deverending Story to SALTY CRACKED.COM Fantasy author Michael Ende hated the rewrites on his original script so much that he tried to buy back the rights, and eventualy just had his name removed from the credits.

Stephen King

The Shining The Shiping by Stephen King A new novel by the author of CARRIE and SALEMSLOT CRACKED.COM Ticked off that Stanley Kubrick gave up the supernatural for the psychological, Stephen King says it's a film by a man who thinks too much and feels too little.

Truman Capote

Breakfast At Tiffany's Breakfast at Tiffany's A short nord and three stories by Truman Capote CRACKED.COM Truman Capote thought that, instead of Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard, the film should have starred Marilyn Monroe and himself.

J.D. Salinger

My Foolish Heart the CATCHER in the RYE CRACKED.COM a novel by J. D. SALINGER J. D. Salinger hated this (critically successful) adaptation so much that he refused to sell the rights to The Catcher In The Rye.

P.L. Travers

Mary Poppins Mary Poppins Mary in the Poppins Park Opens the Door P.L Travers Mary P.L. TRAVERS P.L. Poppins TRAVERE Travers Mary Poppins Comes Back RETRAL - KITCHCOC - Calline CRACKED.COM Author P.L. Travers so deeply regretted selling the movie rights to Disney that she cried throughout the world premiere.

Clive Cussler

Sahara CLIVE CUSSLER SAHARA CRACKED.COM Author Clive Cussler was given near complete creative control. But when he didn't get his way one time, he publicly trashed the movie so badly that the film tanked and the producers sued him.

E.B. White

Charlotte's Web Charlotte's Web by E.B.WHITE Author of STUART LITTLE Pictures by GARTH WILLIAMS CRACKED.COM Author Е. В. White quite simply hates fun: The story is interrupted every few minutes so that somebody can sing a jolly song. I don't care much for jolly songs.

Madeleine L’Engle

A Wrinkle In Time A WRINKLE IN TIME Madeleine L'Engle CRACKED.COM Author Madeleine L'Engle said she'd glimpsed the 2003 film. When asked if it met her expectations, she said she expected it to be bad, and it is.

Rick Riordan

Percy Jackson PORCY THE OLYMPIANS NOW JACKSON THE LIGHTNING THIEF RICK RIORDAN CRACKED.COM 'A al and Author Rick Riordan was nonplussed with the films based off of his work: to you guys, it's a couple hours entertainment. To me, it's my life's work going through a meat grinder when I pleaded with them not to do it

Alan Moore

Watchmen WATCHMEN - CRACKED.COM Comic writer Alan Moore says DC execs exploited a family tragedy to sneak out merchandise he hadn't authorized, among other scummy tactics. Moore came to curse this wretched film and everything connected with it.

Billy Hayes

Midnight Express The story of Bily Hayes unbelevable courage happen THE dd A SPORTOR THAM Midnight Express CRACKED.COM Author Billy Hayes says the film completely changed the ending to his real-life story about spending years in a Turkish prison. It probably didn't help that Oliver Stone was reportedly high on coke, weed, and booze while Hayes was recounting his daring escape.

Richard Matheson

I Am Legend This may be the most femilying - and you will EYES me 25 HOT -Williom Campbell Goult Police Vining Ryon المتوسط I I AM LEGEND Richard Mathesan CRACKED.COM Author Richard Matheson hated every adaptation of his book, especially the 2007 film: I don't know why Hollywood is fascinated by my book when they never care to film it as I wrote it.

Ken Kesey

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST A NOVEL BY Ken Kesey CRACKED COM Author Ken Kesey was so mad that they made the movie about Randle McMurphy instead of Chief Bromden that he quit working on the production and would change the channel any time the movie was on TV.

Lois Duncan

I Know What You Did Last Summer LOIS DUNCAN I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER CRACKED.COM Author Lois Duncan had zero input on the production, and was horrified to see her beloved characters immediately murdered by some insane fisherman she'd never met.

Roald Dahl

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory CHARLiE ANDTHE CHOCOL TE FACTORY BY Roald Dahl Remand by Joseph Companing - four - and Che - with the TO The and to plan CRACKED COM Roald Dahl wrote the original script, but was so miffed about the rewrites that he wrote in his will that the sequel, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, couldn't be adapted for film.

Alan Moore

Alan Moore gave the thumbs up to an episode of JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED. Moore gave his personal blessing to an episode adapting his Superman story For the Man Who Has Everything, - even allowing his name to appear on the credits. That's sky-high praise, coming from a creator notorious for disowning every single adaptation of his work. CRACKED.COM

J.G. Ballard

CRACKED.COM J. G. Ballard rebuked a journalist for dissing David Cronenberg's CRASH. The movie is actually better than book, Ballard said to a Finnish journalist who said the adaptation watered down the novel. It goes further than the book, and is much more powerful and dynamic. It's terrific. (Ot that's how Cronenberg remembers it, at any rate.)

Nick Hornby

CRACKED.COM Nick Hornby loves the ending of ABOUT A BOY. The ending of the film is completely different , Hornby has said, and I love the ending of the film... It really, really works. This is a notoriously aloof British author praising the American Pie directors for changing his story, so that's a serious compliment.

Christopher Priest

CRACKED.COM Christopher Priest was blown away by THE PRESTIGE. According to the British author, he had to watch Christopher Nolan's adaptation of his novel three times before being able to appreciate it as a movie. Before, I was just looking at it and thinking, 'Well, holy s#!t.' was thinking, 'God, like that,' and 'Oh, I wish I'd thought of that.

Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury praised FAHRENHEIT 451 for not killing a character. The novel kills off Clarisse almost as soon as she appears, something Bradbury later regretted. So he very much approved that she survives in the 1966 movie version, and reunites with Montag at the end. CRACKED.COM

Anthony Burgess

nesc ICRO Anthony Burgess thought that Kubrick's A CLOCKWORK ORANGE was much better than his book. Burgess wasn't very fond of the novel, and wasn't happy that the movie turned it into such a big deal. The movie itself, however, he called technically brilliant, thoughtful, relevant, poetic, mind-opening. CRACKED.COM

Anne Rice

Anne Rice did a complete 180 on INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE. Rice totally expected to hate Neil Jordan's adaptation, and kept badmouthing the project at every chance she got. Then she saw the movie, and suddenly she couldn't praise it enough, even paying for full-page ads in several magazines to gush about it. CRACKED.COM

Chuck Palahniuk

CRACKED.COM Chuck Palahniuk approved of FIGHT CLUB'S focus on romance. FIGHT CLUB Palahniuk said he felt sort of embarrassed by the book after watching David Fincher's adaptation. Не liked the more streamlined plot, and the greater focus on the narrator and Marla's relationship. The story is about a man reaching the point where he can commit to a woman.

Stephen King

Stephen King loves the ending of THE MIST. King's novella ends in an ambiguous, but kind of hopeful note-completely unlike Frank Darabont's movie adaptation. Frank wrote a new ending that I loved, King said. It is the most shocking ending ever. CRACKED.COM

Philip K. Dick

CRACKED.COM Philip K. Dick thought that BLADE RUNNER transcended his (or anyone's) work. Dick never got to see Blade Runner before dying, but what little he did see he thought superior to anything science fiction had done before. I did not know that a work of mine ... could be escalated into such stunning dimensions.

Ron Chernow

Ron Chernow has seen HAMILTON dozens of times. Chernow didn't feel that a hip-hop musical was the right medium to adapt his biography of Alexander Hamilton, but Lin-Manuel Miranda quickly convinced him that it totally was. Chernow loves the show now, and has paid lots of times to see it. CRACKED.COM

Robert Kirkman

Robert Kirkman loves DARYL DIXON as much as any fan of The Walking Dead. Kirkman approves of almost every change the series has made to the story-and he specially approves of the scruffy crossbow wielder. Не has said that he' 'll never bring Daryl into the comic because it would do a disservice to the show. CRACKED.COM

Gary K. Wolf

Gary K. Wolf took WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT as canon over his own book. Wolf's Who Censored Roger Rabbit? is very different from Robert Zemeckis' adaptation. Wolf seems to prefer the cinematic Toontown, as the second Roger Rabbit book is more a sequel to the movie than to his first novel. CRACKED.COM

George R.R. Martin

George R. R. Martin prefers the Osha from GAME OF THRONES. Martin wrote Osha more as a plot device than a character, and was impressed by how much more fully rounded and interesting the show made her. Не has said that Osha will be more like her TV counterpart in The Winds of Winter (whenever it comes out). CRACKED.COM

William Steig

William Steig loved SHREK. Steig was worried that Hollywood would turn his tale about a misanthropic ogre into cutesy, harmless children's fare-and was happy to see they didn't do that. It's vulgar, it's disgusting- and I love it! he said about the movie. CRACKED.COM

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