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* ''Film/TheTerminator'' ends with "acknowledgment to the works of Creator/HarlanEllison" in TV airings and video releases - Creator/JamesCameron admitted he got inspiration from ''Series/TheOuterLimits'' episodes Ellison wrote, and following a lawsuit, that disclaimer was created.

* For a much older example, there's ''Film/TheBlackCat'' from 1934.

* The movie ''Film/IRobot'' was "suggested by Isaac Asimov's book," which in this case hints that the adaptation was InNameOnly.
** It included several of the themes and even character names from the original collection of short stories, but was a completely different plot that contradicted some of the basic aspects of the setting (like Robots being common and legal on Earth outside of U.S. Robotics facilities, instead of restricted to off-planet use)

* ''WhatsHappening'' was Suggested by the film ''CooleyHigh''. Eric Monte, who created the show, was the writer for Cooley High.

Compare InspiredBy. Arguably a sort of [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] InNameOnly, for better or worse.

* ''TheSoundOfMusic'' was "suggested by ''The Trapp Family Singers''," meaning that it was VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory.
* ''Film/TheTerminator'' ends with "acknowledgment to the works of HarlanEllison" in TV airings and video releases - Creator/JamesCameron admitted he got inspiration from ''Series/TheOuterLimits'' episodes Ellison wrote, and following a lawsuit, that disclaimer was created.

* ''ThePrincessAndTheFrog'''s tale of what happens when a girl tries to save an enchanted prince with a kiss and winds up turned into a frog herself was inspired by Creator/EDBaker's novel [[Literature/TalesOfTheFrogPrincess ''The Frog Princess'']], which is the first in a whole series of original fantasies.

* ''{{Scrooged}}'', the modern day retelling of ''Literature/AChristmasCarol''.

* ''ChildrenOfMen'', mixed with AdaptationDistillation for a change.

* ''The {{Terminator}}'' ends with "acknowledgment to the works of HarlanEllison" in TV airings and video releases - JamesCameron admitted he got inspiration from ''TheOuterLimits'' episodes Ellison wrote, and following a lawsuit, that disclaimer was created.
* ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbean: On Stranger Tides'' is officially "suggested by" the novel ''Literature/OnStrangerTides'' by Creator/TimPowers.
* ''TheBeastFromTwentyThousandFathoms'' is credited as being suggested by the short story of the same name by Ray Bradbury. The story focuses on two men in a lighthouse which is destroyed by a massive, plesiosaur-like sea monster drawn by the sound of the foghorn. The movie tells a vastly different story of a crocodile-like dinosaur being freed from its slumber in the arctic by an atomic bomb and going on a rampage along the east coast, with one of its many targets being a lighthouse like in the story. After the movie was released, the story's name was changed to "The Foghorn" to distinguish the two.

* SergeyLukyanenko's novel ''LineOfDelirium'' uses race and planet names from the game ''MasterOfOrion'', but this has absolutely no bearing on the storyline. In fact, the author takes plenty of liberties with the racial descriptions and changes the nature of some outright (the Darlock turns out to be not [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifters]] but [[spoiler:snake-like symbiotes]], and the Mrrshan are foxes not CatFolk). The first book doesn't even bother giving a nod to the game. The sequel, ''Emperors of Illisons'' has a small blurb at the end to that effect. Really, the author could've easily changed the race and planet names in the final draft, and the novel would lose absolutely nothing.

* ''ThePrincessAndTheFrog'''s tale of what happens when a girl tries to save an enchanted prince with a kiss and winds up turned into a frog herself was inspired by [[http://www.edbakerbooks.com/ E.D. Baker's novel ''The Frog Princess'']], which is the first in a whole series of original fantasies.

* SergeyLukyanenko's novel ''LineOfDelirium'' uses race and planet names from the game ''MasterOfOrion'', but this has absolutely no bearing on the storyline. In fact, the author takes plenty of liberties with the racial descriptions and changes the nature of some outright (the Darlock turns out to be not [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifters]] but [[spoiler:snake-like symbiotes]], and the Mrrshan are foxes not CatPeople). The first book doesn't even bother giving a nod to the game. The sequel, ''Emperors of Illisons'' has a small blurb at the end to that effect. Really, the author could've easily changed the race and planet names in the final draft, and the novel would lose absolutely nothing.

* ''{{Scrooged}}'', the modern day retelling of ''AChristmasCarol''.

* ''ALittleNightMusic'' is "suggested by a film by Ingmar Bergman," i.e. ''Smiles of a Summer Night''.

* ''ThePrincessAndTheFrog'''s tale of what happens when a girl tries to save an enchanted prince with a kiss and winds up turned into a frog herself was inspired by [[http://www.edbakerbooks.com/ E.D. Baker's novel ''The Frog Princess'']], which is the first in a whole series of original fantasies.

* ''WhatsHappening'' was Suggested by the film ''CooleyHigh''. Eric Monte, who created the show, was the writer for Cooley High.

* ''{{Pirates of the Caribbean}}: On Stranger Tides'' is officially "suggested by" the novel ''On Stranger Tides'' by TimPowers.

* ''The {{Terminator}}'' ends with ""acknowledgment to the works of HarlanEllison" in TV airings and video releases - JamesCameron admitted he got inspiration from ''TheOuterLimits'' episodes Ellison wrote, and following a lawsuit, that disclaimer was created.

** YourMileageMayVary on the {{Glurge}}--some of us [[NarmCharm liked]] that movie.

* SergeyLukyanenko's novel ''LineOfDelirium'' uses race and planet names from the game ''MasterOfOrion'', but this has absolutely no bearing on the storyline. In fact, the author takes plenty of liberties with the racial descriptions and changes the nature of some outright (the Darlock turns out to be not [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifters]] but [[spoiler:snake-like symbiotes]], and the Mrrshan are foxes not CatPeople). The first book doesn't even bother giving a nod to the game. The sequel, ''Emperors of Illisons'' has a small blurb at the end to that effect. Really, the author could've easily changed the race and planet names in the final draft, and the novel would lose absolutely nothing.

*** You're allowed to like Glurge, no one will judge you. But that was so Glurge.

* The movie ''[[IRobot I, Robot]]'' was "suggested by Isaac Asimov's book," which in this case hints that the adaptation was InNameOnly.

* ''WhatsHappening'' was Suggested by the flim ''CooleyHigh''. Eric Monte, who created the show, was the writer for Cooley High.

* WhatsHappening was Suggested by the flim CooleyHigh. Eric Monte, who created the show, was the writer for Cooley High.

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** YourMileageMayVary--some of us [[NarmCharm liked]] that movie.

* ''ChildrenOfMen'', mixed with AdaptionDistillation for a change.

* ''EasyA'' was suggest by ''TheScarletLetter'', even getting referenced within the film.