Books to Movies: 2015

Man I have never been a huge fan of books to movies after I went and say Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, but the year 2015 might have changed that for me. If you have been with my blog for a long time then you will remember back to one of my first few blogs that dealt with the horrible movie adaptation of Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief or more recently why a book turned Movie will never be as good as the book. But I think the year of 2015 might have changed my mind. (Any books listed will not have any spoilers).

2015 had a lot of great book to movie adaptations, the list is just huge. The list includes Mockingjay (part 2) by Suzanne Collins, The Martian by Andy Weir, The Scorch Trials by James Dashner, Paper Towns by John Green, Even Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James had an adaptation and the list just keeps going on and on. All of these movies were extreme successes and were for the most part, (not including Fifty Shades of grey) were pretty. Most were loyal to their original plots, and weren’t horrible.

Now does this mean that the movies were better than their books, no. I am still staying true to what I said in my blog post, “why a book turned Movie will never be as good as the book”, but book to movie adaptations are getting a lot better. And I have a feeling I know why this is the case. Because authors are now caring about what people are doing to their books.

I know for a fact that John Green the author of Paper Town was on set of Paper Towns and helping “direct” the movie to make sure that it was how he wanted it. And I feel that more and more authors are doing this, because they don’t want to see their books get turned into something that even they don’t recognize, like the Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief move.

Now will there be flops of book to movie adaptations like the Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief move, yes of course there will be that always will happen, but are they getting better and better with each try, yes they are. Even though I do trash on it a lot the Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief move was an attempt but it just didn’t work. So I have a feeling we are going to be seeing more and better book to movie adaptations in the future.