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{{quote|''"The best comment I heard about ''[[Starship Troopers (film)|Starship Troopers]]'' was 'Based on the back cover of a [[Starship Troopers (novel)|book]] by [[Robert A. Heinlein|RAH]].'"''|'''Paul Tomblin'''}}
{{quote|''"The best comment I heard about ''[[Starship Troopers (film)|Starship Troopers]]'' was 'Based on the back cover of a [[Starship Troopers (novel)|book]] by [[Robert A. Heinlein|RAH]].'"''
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Got a hit book? Turn it into a hit film. What could be more natural? The name alone will sell tickets, and adapting a hit book to the screen can't be that difficult, can it?
Got a hit book? Turn it into a hit film. What could be more natural? The name alone will sell tickets, and adapting a hit book to the screen can't be that difficult, can it?
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* ''[[Interview with the Vampire]]''
* ''[[Interview with the Vampire]]''
** ''[[Queen of the Damned]]''
** ''[[Queen of the Damned]]''
* ''[[A Wizard of Earth Sea]]'', which managed to [http://www.slate.com/id/2111107/ piss the author off in a big way] with the changes made.
* ''[[Earthsea Trilogy|A Wizard of Earthsea]]'', which managed to [http://www.slate.com/id/2111107/ piss the author off in a big way] with the changes made.
* ''[[7 Faces of Dr. Lao]]'' is the film adaptation of ''[[The Circus of Doctor Lao]]''.
* ''[[7 Faces of Dr. Lao]]'' is the film adaptation of ''[[The Circus of Doctor Lao]]''.
* [[MGM]]'s ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'', somewhat loosely based on the first book, shortened the journey to Emerald City and ended the story shortly after the Wicked Witch was killed. Among other changes was addition of [[Canon Foreigner|original characters]] like Almira Gulch, creating a new subplot involving Dorothy's family. Perhaps the most infamous change in the movie was that Oz had been made an elaborate dream instead of a fantasy country. The reasoning for this was that [[Executive Meddling|executives believed that]] [[Viewers Are Geniuses|audiences were too "sophisticated"]] [[Fantasy Ghetto|to accept a "real" fantasy world.]]
* [[MGM]]'s ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'', somewhat loosely based on the first book, shortened the journey to Emerald City and ended the story shortly after the Wicked Witch was killed. Among other changes was addition of [[Canon Foreigner|original characters]] like Almira Gulch, creating a new subplot involving Dorothy's family. Perhaps the most infamous change in the movie was that Oz had been made an elaborate dream instead of a fantasy country. The reasoning for this was that [[Executive Meddling|executives believed that]] [[Viewers Are Geniuses|audiences were too "sophisticated"]] [[Fantasy Ghetto|to accept a "real" fantasy world.]]
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