movies based on ...... games, graphic novels, books ...... an incomplete list

This is purely for my own edification, you know, things to do to while away a lazy Monday afternoon when I really should be doing something else... Me? Procrastinate? Never!!

Movies based on games:

• Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
• Doom (with a mix of live and game-based action)
• Super Mario Bros (ok, this was a serious flop)
• Halo (okay, so it's not out yet, but uit will be!! one day. I'm sure of it. True.......)

Movies based on comics / graphic novels:

• Sin City
• Daredevil
• Elektra
• Constantine
• Hulk
• Superman
• Batman
• Spiderman
• Ironman
• Conan
• X-Men / Wolverine
• Captain America
• Thor
• The Avengers
• Catwoman
• Ghost Rider
• Green Lantern
• Hellboy
• Judge Dredd
• V for Vendetta

Movies based on plays (ie, have Shakespeare, will travel):

• Hamlet
• Macbeth
• King Henry VIII
• A Midsommers Night Dream
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Romeo and Juliet
• etc, etc, etc

Movies based on books:

• Apocalypse Now (Heart of Darkness)
• Beastly
• I am Number Four
• Die Hard 4.0 (actually based on a Wired magazine article: "A Farewell to Arms" by John Carlin)
• Dune
• Bridge over Terabithia
• Tomorrow when the war began
• The Road
• No Country for Old Men
• Master & Commander: the far side of the world
• Caddie
• Careful He Might Hear You
• I can jump puddles
• For the term of his natural life
• The Shiralee
• Seven Little Australians
• The Searchers
• One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
• Catch 22
• The Colour of Magic
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• 20,000 leagues under the sea
• A Christmas Carol
• Bleak House
• David Copperfield
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• The Three Muskateers
• The Man in the Iron Mask
• The Count of Monte Christo
• Moby Dick
• The Name of the Rose
• Wuthering Heights
• Dracula
• Pride and Prejudice
• Sense and Sensibility
• The Jane Austen Book Club
• Harry Potter (series)
• We Were Soldiers
• War of the Worlds
• The Day of the Triffids
• The Vampire's Assistant (The saga of Darren Shan / Cirque du Freak)
• The Saint
• Toy Soldiers
• Stormbreaker
• Peter Pan
• A Series of Unfortunate Events
• Out of Africa
• Gorillas in the Mist
• Battlestar Galactica
• Jurassic Park
• The Andromeda Strain
• Outbreak
• The 13th Warrior (Eaters of the Dead)
• Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)
• I am Legend
• I, Robot
• Total Recall
• 1984
• The Firm
• The Pelican Brief
• Carrie
• Pet Sematery
• The Shining
• James Bond (series)
• Watership Down
• Force 10 from navarrone
• Where Eagles Dare
• The Great Escape
• The Dam Busters
• The Missing
• The Last of the Mohicans
• The War Wagon
• True Grit
• Rooster Cogburn
• They Were Expendable
• Red River
• Rio Grande
• North to Alaska
• Hatari
• Commancheros
• The Shootist
• The Undefeated
• The Green Berets
• E Dorado (John Wayne / Robert Mitchum)
• In Harm's Way
• The Sons of Katie Elder
• The Longest Day
• The Odd Angry Shot
• Mister Roberts
• The Hunt for Red October
• Hart's War
• Stalag 17 (also, Hogan's Heroes TV series which was based on the movie based on the book)
• Full Metal Jacket
• Empire of the Sun
• The Eagle has Landed
• D-Day
• A Bridge Too Far
• Zulu
• Breaker Morant (Shoot Straight You Bastards)
• The Bridges at Toki-Ri
• Black Hawk Down
• The Blue Max
• ANZIO
• Anne of Green Gables
• The Bourne series
• Coraline
• Limitless

..... and they're just the ones I could think of this afternoon, there's sure to be more.

Gets me thinking though, about movies based on songs, movies born from TV series (eg. S.W.A.T., Doctor Who, and so on), movies based on a poem (The Man from Snowy River) .............. mmmm, ..........curious.