And now for something light

[rhu]

OK, let's get a good discussion going here. :-)

The other night, introverte and I were discussing film adapations of science fiction stories that originally appeared in print. We were unable to come up with a single example of a story that meets all these criteria:

• Science fiction (not fantasy) (excluding, for example, The Lord of the Rings and The Wizard of Oz)
• First appeared in print (excluding, for example, 2001: A Space Odyssey)
• Movie adaptation remains essentially faithful to the print story (excluding, for example, We Can Remember It for You Wholesale, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, I, Robot, etc.)
• Both the original print story and the movie adaptation are generally accepted as great (excluding, for example, well, most others).

The closest I could come up with was Farenheit 451 but I'm not sure the movie really qualifies as great. But I figure that if there exists a true example, you, gentle readers, will let me know.

Comments

[kradical.livejournal.com]

Uhm, why doesn't 2001 count? It did start out as a prose story: "The Sentinel" by Arthur C. Clarke.

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

Perhaps I was misinformed. I thought the novel was written concurrently with the shooting of the movie. Was "The Sentinel" essentially the same story as the entire movie? Amazon describes it as "The story that inspired 2001: A Space Odyssey" which would violate criterion 3.

(Hmmm... Criterion III sounds almost like it could be the name of a con.)