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Sylvester Stallone plays a Vietnam veteran in First Blood, based on a novel of the same name.Orion
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit could have been Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, the title of the novel.Buena Vista
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Robin Williams dressed as a female nanny for the film adaptation of Anne Fine's Alias Madame Doubtfire, which won the Academy Award for best makeup.20th Century Fox
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The Oscar-winning favorite Forrest Gump was actually a novel by the same name first, though author Winston Groom did admit that the film cleaned up the main character.Paramount
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Field of Dreams could have been called Shoeless Joe, the name of the W.P. Kinsella novel it's based on.Universal
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Ang Lee adapted Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon from the Wang Du Lu series of the same name.Sony Pictures
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Breakfast at Tiffany's shares a name with the novella that inspired the adaptation — and the film easily could have starred Marilyn Monroe, who author Truman Capote rallied for.Everett
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David O. Russell's adaptation of Matthew Quick's Silver Linings Playbook elevated Jennifer Lawrence to big fame, though it strayed quite far from the original work.Weinstein Company
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Slumdog Millionaire, based on Vikas Swarup's debut novel called Q&A, earned eight Academy Awards in 2008.Fox Searchlight
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Martin Scorsese's 1990 crime drama Goodfellas was actually a nonfiction book called Wiseguy. Author Nicholas Pileggi co-wrote the Oscar-winning film with Scorsese.Warner Bros.
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This novel, by Philip K. Dick, was originally called Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? — but it used the movie's title of Blade Runner for later pressings of the book following the film's success.Warner Bros.
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