which do you think is harder? making a movie based on a book, making a remake, or making a sequel?
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Movie Based on book:- It seems an easy thing to do, but most of us have different impressions on any given book. The movie version is what the Director perceives as the definition of the book. A book can hold ten times more information. So making the movie, most of the book is lost.\nThe best way, in my opinion, to make the movie is to allow the book Author to write the screenplay.\n\nSequels:- When they first started to appear (1980's) they where mainly a money making devise to line the pockets of the movie companies, with no thought to quality. Now, they are as much big business but the quality is highly improved.\n\nRemakes:- Cashing in on old classics, just like 80's sequels.
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Movie redos pose an exciting promise they'll be done better today than their orginial release, thanks to far better whiz-bang special effects and more talented staff taking on such challenging projects.\n\nMovie translations from popular novels, like movie redos, are a roll of the dice the audience must ponder their worth paying to see.  \n\nFlash Gordon has been redone????  Now, there's a film BEGGING for a better redo!!!!!!!!
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i havn't seen the movie but im putting money down that the book is much better.  How many movies do you know that our better then their book counterpart.
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I'd try to go a bit simpler than that.  Why don't you hire/interest a screenwriter first.
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So far they haven't said anything about producing a 3rd film. I liked the first one, didn't like the second. I don't think the movies ever did good enough to make a 3rd though.
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Definately the book, it is better. If you see the movie first, you will have preconceived notions of how things should be portrayed and it doesn't do the book justice.
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The book or the movie?
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It's based on an earlier movie of the same name. A remake.
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maybe make a good prequal movie?
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Fictional, the movie was based off a book
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Well for the first movie, they had a lot of fan support to raise the money to make it. The movie didn't quite make the money it spent in the movies, so I'm don't think they will make another one. Hopefully they'll recover some more money with dvd and video sales, since it was an awesome picture. We can only hope they do decide to make a sequel.
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The book has so much more just like any book turned into a movie. The movie can never measure up. It is a time thing. If they tried to have it all in the movie they would be 5 hours long.
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Not similar at all?  I suppose it depends on how you classify something, or how 'similar' something needs to be, to be described as 'similar' to something else.\n\nBoth movie series are fiction.  Both are fantasy and adventure, with a certain amount of comedy and drama.  Both contain magic, spells, wizards, English actors, a large spider, modes of transport that fly...\n\nIf you look, there are lots of similarities.  There are differences too of course, which I suspect is where you'd argue that the two movies are not alike.\n\nWhy not tell us why you feel they're not similar?
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well as long as your open to new ideas you will be find, I personally think its a strong possibility.  I often am telling someone a story about something I did then it will hit me, I never did that, and its not something from a book or movie, they are real memories, its strange.
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Well, I am making a movie actually. Well, not a full feature film but a short film. It's a spoof for George Lucas. The film that I wanted to produce just got optioned out, so I just missed it. It was, "The Oath," by Frank Peretti. Oh, well. Maybe I can do another one of his books. =>
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i think maybe for the movie version the creaters or the producers cut out some of the book's version & replaced the cut off stuff with other things or they could've added more things that weren't in the book\nmy advice is watch the movie version and read the book & if u need help doing that try google or amazon
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alota times sequels dont work becoz of raied expectations.. but it depends on how the first movie was recieved by the audience.. there are very few movies people say that the "second one was better" .. so i guess its not that great an idea.. and bollywodd or indian cinema/television hsa a bad habit of dragging things and then side traking from the original intention which should be avoided.