--- title: Book to Movie Adaptations: The Least-Known Titles That Began as Books description: From Mrs. Doubtfire to Goodfellas, see which stellar films started out on a bookshelf canonical: https://time.com/2819593/book-to-movie-adaptations/ author: ashley Ross article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-04T14:40:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-07-21T07:14:56.580Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Book to Movie Adaptations: The Least-Known Titles That Began as Books og:description: From "Mrs. Doubtfire" to "Goodfellas," see which stellar films started out on a bookshelf. og:url: https://time.com/2819593/book-to-movie-adaptations/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltea74bc2a1f546ea8/698696051eebf701493714b5/304520_full1.jpg?branch=production&width=1000&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1000 og:image:height: 563 og:image:alt: MSDFOGU EC003 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Book to Movie Adaptations: The Least-Known Titles That Began as Books twitter:description: From "Mrs. Doubtfire" to "Goodfellas," see which stellar films started out on a bookshelf. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltea74bc2a1f546ea8/698696051eebf701493714b5/304520_full1.jpg?branch=production&width=1000&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 11 Movies You Didn't Know Were Actually Based on Books > Sponsored content. 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Buena Vista  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  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  Field of Dreams could have been called Shoeless Joe, the name of the W.P. Kinsella novel it's based on. Universal  Ang Lee adapted Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon from the Wang Du Lu series of the same name. Sony Pictures  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  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  Slumdog Millionaire, based on Vikas Swarup's debut novel called Q&A, earned eight Academy Awards in 2008. Fox Searchlight  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.  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. 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