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25 Iconic Movies You Did Not Know Were Based On Books

Did you know that was a book?

Jesze Doleh
Nov 20, 2017
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25 Iconic Movies You Did Not Know Were Based On Books
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Wait... That was based off a book? If you are anything like me, you might enjoy comparing books and their movies to determine which is better or how well the movie aligns with the book. Here are 25 movies that I did not know were based on books.

1. Beastly

2. Breakfast at Tiffany's

3. Bridget Jones's Diary

4. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

5. Confessions of a Shopaholic

6. Coraline

7. Ella Enchanted

8. Fast Times at Ridgemont High

9. Fight Club

10. Forrest Gump

11. The Godfather

12. Jaws

13. Jumanji

14. The Martian

15. Pitch Perfect

16. Planet of the Apes

17. The Princess Bride

18. Roots

19. Scarface

20. Schindler’s List

21. My Sister’s Keeper

22. The Sound of Music

23. Twelve Years A Slave

24. Warm Bodies

25. World War Z

Shocked by any of these titles? Now you know that many of these stories were sitting inside books before they became major motion pictures.

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