History Main / RecursiveAdaptation

* Archie published SonicX comic book series, which was a comic book based on an anime based on a [[SonicTheHedgehog video game]].

** Best not to even try to fit the upcoming JamesCameron live-action movie in there.

* ''Ninotchka'' (1939) became the Broadway musical ''Silk Stockings'', which was in turn filmed in 1957.

This is the result of making a {{novelization}} of a movie based on a book, or making a movie out of a ScreenToStageAdaptation, effectively [[TheRemake remaking]] the original movie. See also RecursiveImport, ThePikachuEffect, and CanonImmigrant.

* Fritz Leiber adapted ''Tarzan and the City of Gold'' starring Mike Henry into a prose {{Tarzan}} novel. He took pains to footnote past Tarzan adventures by EdgarRiceBurroughs to make this a canonical continuation of the Tarzan continuity of Burroughs.

* Scrabble: [[BoardGames Board game]] → [[{{Scrabble}} game show]] → [[HomeGame board game]]
* {{Civilization}}: [[BoardGames Civilization]] → [[VideoGames Sid Meier's Civilization]] → [[TheBoardGame Sid Meier's Civilization: The Board Game]]

* ''MahouSenseiNegima!''(manga) → ''Negima!?'' (anime) → ''Negima!? Neo'' (manga) → ''Negima!? Neo-Pactio Fight'' (game).

* ''{{Touhou}}'' series (video game) → ''Strange and Bright Nature Deity'' ([[ComicBookAdaptation manga]] based on the Touhou game series) → ''Fairy Wars'' (video game based on a story from the ''[=SaBND=]'' manga)

* The ''{{Touhou}}'' series (game) → ''Touhou Three Fairies'' (manga) → ''Touhou 12.8: Great Fairy Wars ~ Touhou Three Fairies'' (game)

** ''Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie'' also had its own game version, albeit one that [[NoExportForYou came out only in Japan]]. Instead of being a traditional fighting games, it was some weird pseudo-life sim where you controlled the newest model of Shadaloo's Monitor Cyborgs and develop his fighting abilities by watching [[FullMotionVideo FMV footage]] of the actual movie (along with new scenes made for the game) and "analyzing" the characters' special moves. There is a ''Super Turbo''-style fight sequence in the end, but the Cyborg's moves are the same ones that Ken has in ''Super Turbo'' (including his ''Shoryu Reppa'').

* ''TheMiddleman'' started off a TV pitch that ended up a series for Viper Comics which became a TV show on ABC Family which returned to comic form for the show's [[TheResolutionWillNotBeTelevised unaired 13th and final episode]].

* ''{{Little Shop of Horrors}}''" movie (1960) → off-Broadway musical (1982) → movie (1986). (Then a Broadway musical, but that wasn't an adaptation of the movie, just a revival.)

->''Grease 2: The Musical Based On The Sequel To The Movie Based On The Musical''

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* ''{{Little Shop of Horrors}}'' movie (1960)→Off-Broadway musical (1982)→movie (1986). (Then Broadway musical, but that wasn't an adaptation of the movie, just a revival.)

* The musical ''MyFairLady'' was based on the 1938 movie version of ''Pygmalion'' [[LostInImitation as much as on Shaw's original play]]. It was made into a movie in 1964.

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* Hollywood producers offered Philip K. Dick the chance to write the {{novelization}} of ''BladeRunner'', itself a loose FilmOfTheBook (the screenwriters had not read the original book) of his ''DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep?'' They would have paid a lot of money to do this, but, feeling insulted he refused. This led to the release of tie-in editions of ''Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?'' re-titled and looking for all the world like ''BladeRunner'' novelizations. Later, when his short story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" [[AdaptationDisplacement inspired]] the movie ''TotalRecall''. Having gone through DevelopmentHell and many screenwriters, the script was essentially an original script with even less in common with its source material than ''BladeRunner''. By the time of the film's release, Piers Anthony had written a novelization of ''Total Recall''. The novelization came out in 1989. The movie came out in 1990.

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* Prince of Persia, a remake series of an older game loosely based on arabian fairy tales was adapted into a movie, which in turn recieved it's own game adaptation.

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-->''I knew Atari were idiots when they let UweBoll make [[VideoGameMoviesSuck a god-awful action movie out of the franchise]], but I never thought they were big enough idiots to use that film as inspiration.''
-->--[[ZeroPunctuation Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw]], [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/130-Alone-in-the-Dark 2008 Alone in the Dark Review]]. May not be quite, but close.

-->''Grease 2: The Musical Based On The Sequel To The Movie Based On The Musical''

This is the result of making a {{Novelization}} of a movie based on a book, or making a movie out of a ScreenToStageAdaptation, effectively [[TheRemake remaking]] the original movie. See also RecursiveImport, ThePikachuEffect, and CanonImmigrant.

'''Examples:'''

* Various recent animated DC Comics properties have received their own continuing comic book series: ''[[BatmanTheAnimatedSeries Batman]] Adventures'', ''[[SupermanTheAnimatedSeries Superman]] Adventures'', ''JusticeLeague Adventures'', ''Justice League Unlimited'', ''BatmanBeyond'', ''TheBatman Strikes!'', ''TeenTitans Go!'', ''Series/{{Legion of Super Heroes}} in the 31st Century'' (the last of which ''would'' have used the plot from [[TheResolutionWillNotBeTelevised the canceled third season]] had it not itself been canceled a few months later). And now ''[[BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold Batman: The Brave and the Bold]]''.

* ''TheProducers'': movie (1968)→Broadway musical (2001)→movie (2005).
* ''{{Hairspray}}'': movie (1988)→Broadway musical (2002)→movie (2007).

* ''[[ThreeHundred 300]]'': Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC)→The 300 Spartans (1962 film)→300 (1998 graphic novel)→300 (2007 film).

* Two {{Novelization}}s of JamesBond movies, for taking only a few elements of the novel ({{Moonraker}}), or [[InNameOnly just the name]] (TheSpyWhoLovedMe).

* The film adaptation of ''JurassicPark'' was given the junior novelisation treatment. So, book of the film of the book. The same is true of ''CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'', ''{{Jumanji}}'' and ''{{Zathura}}''
* ''Film/HowToTrainYourDragon: [[TheyJustDidntCare The Chapter Book]].'' Seriously, that's the actual title.

* ''[[StreetFighter Street Fighter II]]'', the game that started the whole fighting game boom of TheNineties and arguably created the genre, inspired a LiveActionAdaptation simply titled ''Film/StreetFighter'', which in turn inspire not one, but two fighting games based on it, both titled ''Street Fighter: The Movie''. The arcade version made by Incredible Technologies, is often regarded as a typical example SoBadItsHorrible, so much that the game designer Alan Loon apologized for his involvement on the internet. The console version, often mistaken to be a port of the arcade version, plays more like a standard ''Street Fighter'' game (specifically like a slower ''Super SF II Turbo'') and it's generally considered a decent game, albeit not at the same level as the other games in the series.

** Also, ''Yellow'' version is video game→anime→video game.

* ''HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'': {{Radio}} play → Series of books → [[AudioAdaptation Radio plays based on the last three books that didn't start as radio plays]].

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* The film adaptation of ''JurassicPark'' was given the junior novelisation treatment. So, book of the film of the book.

* The ''DuckTales'' comic book series is a comic book based on a [[DuckTales cartoon]] based on a [[CarlBarks comic book]] based on a [[ClassicDisneyShorts cartoon]].

* Archie published SonicX comic book series, which was a comic book based on an anime based on a video game.

* The musical ''My Fair Lady'' was based on the 1938 movie version of ''Pygmalion'' [[LostInImitation as much as on Shaw's original play]]. It was made into a movie in 1964.

* ''Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical''

* [[Ptitleiqjyoon665ez 300]]: Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC)→The 300 Spartans (1962 film)→300 (1998 graphic novel)→300 (2007 film).
** This gets even longer if you count the legend of the Battle of Thermopylae as distinct from the battle itself, and if you count the parody Meet The Spartans, and if you count LoadingReadyRun parodying that (among other parodies) with [[http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/369/Movie-Movies-Movie One of Those 'Movie' Movies Movie]].

* Both the films ''Bram Stoker's Dracula'' and ''MaryShelley's Frankenstein'' had new {{novelization}}s written, despite being based on classic novels themselves. ''And'' having included the original author's name [[InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt in the title of the movie]], as if to give an air of authenticity. FredSaberhagen wrote the novelization of ''Bram Stoker's Dracula''; Saberhagen reportedly offered his services on the Frankenstein novel as well, solely for the purpose of being able to put "''Mary Shelley's Frankenstein'': From the author of ''Bram Stoker's Dracula''" on the cover.

* Hollywood producers offered Philip K. Dick the chance to write the {{novelization}} of ''BladeRunner'', itself a loose FilmOfTheBook (the screenwriters had not read the original book) of his ''Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?'' They would have paid a lot of money to do this, but, feeling insulted he refused. This led to the release of tie-in editions of ''Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?'' re-titled and looking for all the world like ''BladeRunner'' novelizations. Later, when his short story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" [[AdaptationDisplacement inspired]] the movie ''TotalRecall''. Having gone through DevelopmentHell and many screenwriters, the script was essentially an original script with even less in common with its source material than ''BladeRunner''. By the time of the film's release, Piers Anthony had written a novelization of ''Total Recall''. The novelization came out in 1989. The movie came out in 1990.

* Many Saint comic strip arcs and TV episodes received prose adaptations by Leslie Charteris and other writers. These adaptations fit into the Saint's literary continuity. Examples include The Saint in Trouble (has a footnote to the events of The Last Hero) and Salvage for the Saint.

* The novelization of Tim Burton's ''PlanetOfTheApes'' remake was a novelization of a remake of a film adapted from an English translation of a French novel. Yikes.

* ''[=~Pokèmon~=]'' had video game→collectible card game→video game. (And the promo cards that came with the game and its strategy guide are based on those from the video game, adding another layer...)

** If you want to stretch it that far, ''Sonic Spinball'' is a video game loosely based on (read: has cameos from) the ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehog'' SatAM and Archie Comics series (which were, as above, based on the original games), which eventually got its own comic adaptation.

*Compare an edition of JurassicPark purchased before the movie came out, and another purchased afterward.