Books into Film

Did you know that Ben Affleck's new movie, "The Town", is based on the novel Prince of Thieves by Chuck Hogan? Or that Ben Mezrich's The Accidental Billionaires, about the founding of Facebook, is now the movie "The Social Network"?

Here are some other new films that are based on books:

• "The Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'hoole" (based on children's series by Kathryn Lasky)



• "Never Let Me Go" (book by Kazuo Ishiguro) starring Keira Knightley and Carey Mulligan



• "The Romantics" (book by Galt Niederhoffer; starring Katie Holmes, Anna Paquin)



• "Freakonomics" (documentary version of the book by Steven Levitt)



• "It's Kind of a Funny Story" (young adult novel by Ned Vizzini, with Emma Roberts starring)



• "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" (pt. 3 of Larsson's trilogy---Swedish version)



• "Fair Game" (book by Valerie Plame Wilson; with Naomi Watts as Plame)



• "127 Hours" (based on Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston; starring James Franco and directed by Danny Boyle of "Slumdog" fame)



• "Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows" (final HP book split into 2 movies: this is Pt. 1)



• "Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader" (C. S. Lewis, of course!)



• "The Tempest" by Shakespeare (Julie Taymor version with Helen Mirren as "Prospera")



• "True Grit" (book by Charles Portis; re-make by the Coen Brothers with Jeff Bridges in the John Wayne role)

Of course, we have to add our tag line: THE BOOK IS ALWAYS BETTER THAN THE MOVIE!