![]() ![]() ![]() Story of Your Life) here, though they are often included in similar lists.Īs a point of interest, I’ve also compared the lengths of the original short stories to the lengths of their film adaptations, and organized them from widest to least difference-but be warned that editions vary, so the page lengths listed here are from whatever book I could get my hands on (or preview online) and may not match your own version. I did my best to limit this list to films truly adapted from single short stories, excluding adaptations of groups of stories (like Julieta), adaptations of full collections, and adaptations of novellas or anything else long enough to be typically published as a standalone book (other than as a film tie-in), which means you won’t see Stand By Me (a.k.a The Body) or The Shawshank Redemption (both novellas collected in King’s Different Seasons, by the way, along with Apt Pupil and The Breathing Method-adaptation coming in 2020) or Breakfast at Tiffany’s or Arrival (a.k.a. Most of them are based on novels, or novel series, which only makes sense-there’s often a ton of material to work with-and things usually have to be cut, but when movies are based on short stories, there’s the trickier business of expansion. Literary adaptations have always been popular on the big screen, though every year it seems they’re more popular than ever. ![]()
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