History DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation / LiveActionFilm

* In ''Theatre/AntonyAndCleopatra'', as Creator/WilliamShakespeare wrote it, Enobarbas [[DeathByDespair dies of despair]] over having abandoned Antony for Caesar, as does Cleopatra's handmaiden Iras as Cleopatra is about to [[DrivenToSuicide kill herself]]. In the 1972 film version starring Creator/CharltonHeston and Hildegarde Neil in the title roles, however, both of these deaths are changed to [[DrivenToSuicide suicides]]: Enobarbus throws himself from a cliff into the sea, and Iras stabs herself.

* In ''Theatre/AntomyAndCleopatra'', as Creator/WilliamShakespeare wrote it, Enobarbas [[DeathByDespair dies of despair]] over having abandoned Antony for Caesar, as does Cleopatra's handmaiden Iras as Cleopatra is about to [[DrivenToSuicide kill herself]]. In the 1972 film version starring Creator/CharltonHeston and Hildegarde Neil in the title roles, however, both of these deaths are changed to [[DrivenToSuicide suicides]]: Enobarbus throws himself from a cliff into the sea, and Iras stabs herself.

** ''Film/CasinoRoyale1967'': While Vesper Lind commits suicide in the novel, the parody film has her among the casualties when Jimmy Bond, having earlier ingested an [[ItMakesSenseInContext atomic pill, explodes and destroys the Casino]].

** ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'': Vesper commits suicide in [[Literature/CasinoRoyale the book]], leaving a note behind explaining her ties to SMERSH. The final sequence is actionized in the film, in which Vesper drowns.

* Minor examples in ''Franchise/LandOfOz'':

* In ''ComicBook/BatmanDarkVictory'', former GCPD commissioner Gillian Loeb was killed by Sofia Falcone hanging him during her killing spree as [[SamusIsAGirl the Hangman]]. In ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', Loeb, still commissioner, is poisoned by the Joker tampering with his alcohol.

* In the novel, ''The Executioners'', [[TheSociopath Max Cady]] is killed by a lucky shot from Sam Bowden after a failed ambush at the latter's home. While the 1962 film, ''Film/CapeFear'', has [[SparedByTheAdaptation Cady sent to jail instead]], the 1991 remake has Cady [[CombatBreakdown worn down from a long fight]] with Bowden and is swept away by the titular river.

* ''Film/TheShining'': While Jack Torrance dies in the novel when the Overlook Hotel goes boom (see above), he dies in the movie when he freezes in the hedge maze during his pursuit of Danny.

** Don Ciccio, who [[NoNameGiven isn't named in the novel]], is killed by Vito's father Antonio in a public struggle. ''Part II'' downgrades it to Ciccio being insulted when Antonio denies him tribute, allowing a grown Vito [[YouKilledMyFather to personally slay him in revenge]].

** In ''Strawberry Shortcake Murder'', Boyd Watson was killed by a single blow to the head with a ball peen hammer. In "Murder She Baked: Just Desserts", Leonard Bishop (his new name) was killed by being hit with a truck, and then suffocated with a football Jjersey when the truck didn't kill him. That could ''not'' have been fun.

* ''Franchise/Godzilla'':

* ''Film/LesDiaboliques'': The 1956 film concerns an elaborate plot by a man and his mistress to scare his wife to death. The murder plot is tweaked from the original novel, ''She Who Was No More'', and replicated by the 1996 remake, ''Diaboliques''. While the 1956 film's Michel's plot succeeds, his novel and remake counterparts aren't lucky. In the novel, Farnand is DrivenToSuicide when he sees his wife is NotQuiteDead; in the remake, Guy is drowned for real by his wife and mistress.

* ''Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac'': The 1950 film version changes Cyrano's fatal injuries from getting struck by a falling log to getting struck by a carriage.

* In [[Film/Godzilla1954 the original Godzilla movie]], Godzilla is killed by a special weapon called the Oxygen Destroyer. In [[Film/Godzilla1998 the 1998 American version]], the army just keeps firing missiles at Godzilla until he's dead.

%%** In ''Film/AntMan1'', Darren Cross is killed when his Yellowjacket suit (tampered with by Scott Lang) crushes him to death, but in the comics, he dies of natural causes (essentially a heart attack) during a fight with Scott.

** In ''Film/AntMan1'', Darren Cross is killed when his Yellowjacket suit (tampered with by Scott Lang) crushes him to death, but in the comics, he dies of natural causes (essentially a heart attack) during a fight with Scott.

* ''Film/AllQuietOnTheWesternFront2022'': In the novel, Paul is killed under unspecified circumstances on an otherwise quiet and uneventful day a month before the armistice. Here, Paul is sent on a pointless charge against a French position in the last minutes of the war and bayonetted through the heart ''mere seconds'' before the armistice takes effect.

** ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'': In [[Literature/ForYourEyesOnly the short story]] ''Ricisco'', Bond shoots Kristatos. In the film, Colombo kills him via knife to the back. Also, the opening sequence has Bond dropping a LawyerFriendlyCameo version of Blofeld down a smokestack; in the novels (specifically, ''Literature/YouOnlyLiveTwice''), Bond strangles him.

** The novel's Donald Gennarro makes it off the island, while DirtyCoward Ed Regis is devoured by a juvenile T-Rex. The film's Donald Gennarro [[CompositeCharacter combines the two characters]], who gets [[SignatureScene memorably]] [[TheCanKickedHim and humiliatingly devoured]] by the adult T-Rex. Death would eventually come for novel Gennarro by way of dysentery before ''Literature/{{The Lost World|1995}}'' happens.

* ''Film/{{Psycho}}'''s {{signature|scene}} shower scene played out differently compared to the novel. While Marion Crane was repeatedly stabbed to death by "mother," [[AdaptationNameChange Mary Crane]] was [[OffWithHisHead beheaded]] instead.

** In the novel, after Esmeralda is hanged, Quasimodo steals away to the mass grave for criminals and dies there holding Esmeralda's body. Since most film adaptations [[SparedByTheAdaptation spare Esmeralda's life]], those that still have Quasimodo die find different ways to kill him off. In both [[Film/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame1923 the 1923 silent film]] with Creator/LonChaney and the 1997 TV film with Creator/MandyPatinkin, he's stabbed by Frollo [[MutualKill just before throwing the latter from Notre Dame's parapet]], while in the 1982 film with Creator/AnthonyHopkins, he falls off the cathedral parapet himself. Only [[Film/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame the 1956 film]] with Creator/AnthonyQuinn keeps his original fate. (All other major versions have him SparedByTheAdaptation.)