from books to films

The phenomenon started with the publication of Dracula, an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker.. Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells

From books… To films!

Film adaptation is as common as the

development of original screenplays and it includes the use of :

non-fiction (including journalism)

autobiography

comic book

plays

other films

Film adaptation - the transfer of a

written work to a feature film

300 by Frank Miller (graphic novel)

Alice in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

The Bone Collector

by Jeffery Deaver

Beloved by Toni Morrison

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

by F Scott Fitzgerald(based on the short story)

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

by Judi and Ron Barrett

Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting

Dune by Frank Herbert

The Exorcist

by William Peter Blatty

Eragon by Christopher Paolini

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

The Fellowship of the Ring

by J.R.R Tolkien

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg

Moby Dick by Herman Melville Nanny McPhee by Christianna Brand

(based on the “Nurse Matilda” book series)

Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

– based on the short story

The Tale of Despereaux by Kate

DiCamillo

The Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

Yes Man by Danny Wallace

Zathura: A Space Adventure

by Chris van Allsburg

One of the most popular film adaptations, with over

The phenomenon started

with the publication of

Dracula, an 1897 novel by

Irish author Bram Stoker.

Famous for introducing the character of the vampire

Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's

attempt to relocate from

Transylvania to England, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men

and women led by Professor Abraham van Helsing.

Stoker’s Dracula was influenced

 Varney the Vampire, a lengthy

serial by James Malcolm Rymer

 John Polidori’s 1819 novel The

Vampyre, where the image of a

vampire portrayed as an

aristocratic man appeared for the first time

Historians have connected the

character of Dracula to Vlad the

Impaler, who reigned from 1456–

1462 and is said to have killed from 40,000 to 100,000 European civilians (political rivals, criminals and anyone else he considered "useless to

humanity"), mainly by using his

favorite method of impaling them on a sharp pole

Vlad the III rd is revered as a folk hero

by Romanians for driving off the

invading Turks The numbers of his

victims are most likely exaggerated.

The plot:

Jonathan Harker, a young English

lawyer, travels to Transylvania to

conclude a real estate transaction with

a nobleman named Count Dracula

Although the elderly Dracula seems to

be a well educated, hospitable

gentleman, Harker realizes soon that

he is held prisoner and that the count

is actually undead Harker escapes, but Dracula reaches England by boat and tracks down Mina, Harker’s fiancee and attacks her friend, Lucy The expert van Helsing is called to deal with the disease Lucy seems to suffer from and not long passes before they find they are the victims of a vampire The

characters join forces and ultimately destroy the monster as it was trying to reach his home-castle.

The most popular film adaptations:

Director: Tod Browning Writers: Bram Stoker, Hamilton Deane Stars: Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler and David Manners

Tagline: The story of the strangest passion the

world has ever known!

Bela lugosi as dracula

MINA (Helen CHANDLER) aND dracula

Director: Terence Fisher

Writers: Bram Stoker, Jimmy Sangster

Stars: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee and

Michael Gough

Tagline: The terrifying lover who died - yet lived!

The most popular film adaptations:

CHRISTOPHE R LEE as drac

ula

Peter cus hing as v

aN Helsin g

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Writers: Bram Stoker, James V Hart

Stars: Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder and

Anthony Hopkins

Tagline: The blood is life.

The most popular film adaptations:

Gary oldman as Dracula

Winona Ryder as MINa

Keanu reeves as harker

Anthony Hopkins as VAN

helsing

A video from Dracula (1995) –

Mel Brooks’s parody:

Little Dracula is a British series of children's books and an American animated television series that originally aired

on FOX Little Dracula revolves around a green-skinned, child vampire who aspires to be like his father, Big Dracula, yet also enjoys rock 'n roll and surfing Little Dracula also has a monstrous friend named Werebunny, and his

Transylvanian family of strange characters is often threatened by the villainous Garlic Man.

Dracula in popular culture

 Stage – An acclaimed Edward Gorey production, starring Frank Langella as the Count was staged in 1977

 Radio - In 1938, Orson Welles and John Houseman chose Dracula to be the inaugural

episode of the new radio show

 Novels - Dracula has inspired many literary tributes or parodies, including Stephen King's

Salem's Lot, Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga

 Short Stories - Shepard, Leslie 1977 The Dracula book of great vampire stories.

 Comics - Marvel comics version of Dracula: Tomb of Dracula by Marv Wolfman

 Games and video games - Tepes is a mysterious vampire in Vampire: The Masquerade.

 Anime and manga - In 1980, Toei Animation produced the TV anime movie Yami no Teiô

Kyûketsuki Dracula, based upon Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan's Tomb of Dracula.

 Television – True Blood, Vampire Diaries, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

 Cartoons – Little Dracula, Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School

 Others - The General Mills cereal mascot Count Chocula is a vampire who craves Count

Chocula cereal rather than blood