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27 Creators Who HATE The Movie Adaptations of Their Work

By:: Cracked Writers; Brian C. Miller

April 02, 2022

27 Creators Who HATE The Movie Adaptations of Their Work

Imagine you're Stephen King-- You're a massively successful, best selling author of spooky novels. One of your most personal works to date, the story of an alcoholic writer losing his grip on his own humanity that echoes your own fears of the person you're worried you're capable of becoming gets the Hollywood adaptation treatment by one of the greatest filmmakers of all time… And you kind of hate it? Sure, it'll be remembered through history as one of the best, most tense horror movies ever made, but you can't get out of your craw that it's not the way you ever meant for the story to go.

King's not alone, he's not even the first to be mad a Stanley Kubrick-- There are plenty of authors dissatisfied with adaptations of their work, and not all of the movies are anywhere near the level of The Shining or A Clockwork Orange.

…Just wait until we get to Alan Moore.

27 Alan Moore / V for Vendetta

Alan Moore read the screenplay for the V for Vendetta adaptation, and hated it. His exact words were: I've read the screenplay. It's rubbish. Не also asked to have his name taken off the movie's credits. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Writers Who Hate Movie Adaptations Of Their Work

26 Ken Kesey / One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Ken Kesey really disliked the One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest movie. Не wrote a screenplay, but Hollywood turned him down-he later said I really wrote it to be as weird as I thought being in the nuthouse was. But it was not what they wanted. I was naive at the time. I wanted to do The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, and they wanted to do Hogan's Heroes. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Writers Who Hate Movie Adaptations Of Their Work

25 Katsuhiro Otomo

The author of the Akira manga thought the movie would be an awful flop. The first half was good, he thought, but quality went down in the second half as the money ran out, and he was sure the movie would fail terribly. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Writers Who Hate Movie Adaptations Of Their Work

24 Roald Dahl / Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Roald Dahl hated the first adaptation of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Not only did he dislike that they took out Charlie from the title, he was also really angry about the fact that they added scenes that weren't there originally. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Writers Who Hate Movie Adaptations Of Their Work

23 Lois Duncan / I Know What You Did Last Summer

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. — Source: 20 Movie Adaptations That Disgusted The Original Author

22 Madeleine L'Engle / A Wrinkle in Time

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. — Source: 20 Movie Adaptations That Disgusted The Original Author

21 Stephen King / The Shining

Stephen King absolutely loathes Stanley Kubrick's version of The Shining. In the book, there's an actual arc where you see this guy, Jack Torrance, trying to be good, and little by little he moves over to this place where he's crazy. And as far as I was concerned, when I saw the movie, Jack was crazy from the first scene. I had to keep my mouth shut at the time, said King. CRACKED. GOM — Source: 13 Writers Who Hate Movie Adaptations Of Their Work

20 Tolkien's Estate / The Lord of the Rings

The Tolkien Estate weren't the biggest fans of Peter Jackson's LOTR movies. Specifically, JRR Tolkien's son Christopher said that they eviscerated the book by making it an action movie for young people aged 15 to 25 (and just imagine what he'd say about The Hobbit). CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Writers Who Hate Movie Adaptations Of Their Work

19 Tom Clancy / Patriot Games

Tom Clancy hated the Patriot Games movie so much, he almost took his name off. Well, he did ask for that, but he changed his mind at the last second and asked them to put it back in the credits. Не loathed the movie so much, he complained publicly that, of the movie's 200-ish scenes, only one resembles something in the book. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Writers Who Hate Movie Adaptations Of Their Work

18 J.D. Salinger / My Foolish Heart

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. — Source: 20 Movie Adaptations That Disgusted The Original Author

17 Hellraiser: Revelations

Hellraiser: Revelations Ardemed and arthur e DE GREAT AND SIGHT SEOW of EVERYLLE CLIVE BARKER THE SEARING SOVELLA THAT ESSPERED THE FILM SNOCKER HELLRAISER THE HELLBOUND CRACKED.COM HEART Horror author Clive Barker said of the 9th film adaptation of his novella: If they claim its from the mind of Clive Barker, it's a lie. It's not even from my butt-hole. — Source: 20 Movie Adaptations That Disgusted The Original Author

16 Alan Moore / Watchmen

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. — Source: 20 Movie Adaptations That Disgusted The Original Author

15 Billy Hayes / Midnight Express

Midnight Express The story of Bily Hayes unbelevable courage happen TAEE dd ASPORTOR 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. — Source: 20 Movie Adaptations That Disgusted The Original Author

14 Clive Cussler / Sahara

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. — Source: 20 Movie Adaptations That Disgusted The Original Author

13 Dr. Seuss / The Cat in the Hat

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. — Source: 20 Movie Adaptations That Disgusted The Original Author

12 Akira Toriyama / Dragon Ball Z

The creator of Dragon Ball isn't too happy with Son Goku in the anime. So once Dragon Ball got animated, at any rate, I've always been dissatisfied with the righteous hero--type portrayal they gave him. I guess I couldn't quite get them to grasp the elements of poison that slip in and out of sight among the shadows, he said (translated from Japanese). CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Writers Who Hate Movie Adaptations Of Their Work

11 PL Travers / Mary Poppins

PL Travers was pretty disappointed by the movie version of Mary Poppins. After the premiere, she found Walt Disney at the after-party and told him Well, the first thing that has to go is the animation sequence. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Writers Who Hate Movie Adaptations Of Their Work

10 George RR Martin / Game of Thrones

George RR Martin wasn't too thrilled with how Game of Thrones wrapped up. The series has been... not completely faithful. Otherwise, it would have to run another five seasons. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Writers Who Hate Movie Adaptations Of Their Work

9 Ursula K. LeGuin / Earthsea

Ursula K. LeGuin despised the SciFi channel's adaptation of her Earthsea books. All they intended was to use the name Earthsea, and some of the scenes from the books, in a generic McMagic movie with a meaningless plot based on sex and violence, is how she described it. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Writers Who Hate Movie Adaptations Of Their Work

8 Anthony Burgess / A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgess wasn't a fan of the movie version of A Clockwork Orange. As he later wrote: The film made it easy for readers of the book to misunderstand what it was about, and the misunderstanding will pursue me till I die. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Writers Who Hate Movie Adaptations Of Their Work

7 Bret Easton Ellis / American Psycho

Bret Easton Ellis thinks the movie American Psycho was just unnecessary. American Psycho was a book I didn't think needed to be turned into a movie. I think the problem with American Psycho was that it was conceived as a novel, as a literary work with a very unreliable narrator at the center of it and the medium of film demands answers, said Ellis. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Writers Who Hate Movie Adaptations Of Their Work

6 E.B. White / Charlotte's Web

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. — Source: 20 Movie Adaptations That Disgusted The Original Author

5 Richard Matheson / I Am Legend

I Am Legend This may be the most femilying - and 199 will EYES me 25 H -Williom Campbell Goult Police Vining 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. — Source: 20 Movie Adaptations That Disgusted The Original Author

4 Michael Ende / The Neverending Story

The Neverending Story Michael Ende Deverending Story السعودية 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. — Source: 20 Movie Adaptations That Disgusted The Original Author

3 Rick Riordan / Percy Jackson

Percy Jackson THE JACKSON OLYMPIANS NOW THE LIGHTNING THIEF RICK RIORDAN CRACKED.COM 'A of 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 — Source: 20 Movie Adaptations That Disgusted The Original Author

2 Elizabeth Wurtzel / Prozac Nation

Prozac Nation NATIONAL BESTSELLER PROZAC NATION YOUNG ... With EXP emmado - adidas . MEMOLA ELIZABETH WURTZEL Teating - and toack the Times GRACKED.COM Christina Ricci played author Elizabeth Wurtzel in her autobiography's adaptation, and Wurtzel scorched Ricci big time: You could argue that I'm a terrible writer, but I'm the best version of me that there is. — Source: 20 Movie Adaptations That Disgusted The Original Author

1 Truman Capote / Breakfast at Tiffany's

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. — Source: 20 Movie Adaptations That Disgusted The Original Author

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