History Main / AdaptationExpansion

* Similar to the live-action ''TheTenCommandments'', ''ThePrinceOfEgypt'' expanded upon the details in TheBookOfExodus to show the relationship between Moses and the Pharaoh. Both films depict it as SiblingRivalry. Nothing in scripture itself says Moses and the Pharaoh were raised as brothers.

* Similar to the live-action ''TheTenCommandments'', ''ThePrinceOfEgypt'' expanded upon the details in TheBookOfExodus to show the relationship between Moses and the Pharaoh. Both films depict it as SiblingRivalry. Nothing in scripture itself says Moses and the Pharaoh were raised as brothers.

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* ''Film/PrinceCaspian'' has even more expansion than ''The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe''.

* ''Literature/ChroniclesOfNarnia 2 Literature/PrinceCaspian:'' book-Miraz is just a generic tyrant, movie-Miraz is specifically a Borgia/Medici style tyrant. It also adds the rivalry between Peter and Caspian, and Caspian getting PromotedToLoveInterest for Susan.

* Variation with ''Film/TheHobbit'': though it's a three-movie adaptation of a book that is significantly shorter than ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', the latter of which got three films that trimmed a lot out of the plot to produce some still fairly long movies, Creator/PeterJackson and team got the majority of the material from the appendices of ''The Lord Of The Rings'' and other parts explaining what else was happening while Bilbo and the dwarves journeyed to the Lonely Mountain. So they're not exactly pulling new material out from thin air to lengthen the films, but rather taking material from other parts of TheVerse and rearranging it to fit with ''The Hobbit''. Tolkien himself actually considered doing a revised and expanded version of the novel along similar lines that would serve as a more overt prequel to ''The Lord of the Rings'', but ultimately decided against it.

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[[folder:Film]]
* Any feature-length film based on something that was written by Creator/DrSeuss.
** Infamously, RonHoward's feature film adaptation of ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas''. The ChuckJones [[WesternAnimation/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas animated Christmas special]], which was 25 minutes long, ''still'' had to pad its length with original songs and cute cartoon slapstick to fill the timeslot. The Ron Howard film was ''four times as long'' as the special.
** ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'', which was poorly received and prompted the trope's quote. Interestingly, the film inspired [[RecursiveAdaptation a book adaptation]] that included some of the new material created for the film. In other words, it's an AdaptationDistillation of an AdaptationExpansion.
** Blue Sky's computer-animated ''HortonHearsAWho'', on the other hand, was pretty well-received.
** ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax'' adds additional characters and expands beyond the book's original ending as the boy ([[NamedByTheAdaptation now named Ted]]) attempts to carry out the Once-ler's wishes. But in a disturbing twist, the Once-ler is portrayed as human... and here comes the [[{{Anvilicious}} aesop anvil]] on schedule.
* The live-action ''Literature/PippiLongstocking'' movies added material to the sequence of stories in the books. The third one, ''Pippi in the South Seas'' did indeed have them going to the South Seas--not to visit Pippi's father's island, but to rescue him from pirates.
* Hollywood turned ''The Secret Life of Walter Mitty'' from a classic short story by Creator/JamesThurber into an overblown Danny Kaye vehicle.
* The movie adaptations of ''MrBean'' showed that the task of writing a plotline for a SketchComedy character is not an easy one.
* Many ''SaturdayNightLive'' characters have transitioned from SketchComedy to feature films: ''TheBluesBrothers'', ''WaynesWorld'', ''It's Pat'', ''Stuart Saves His Family'', ''{{Coneheads}}'', ''ANightAtTheRoxbury'', ''Film/{{Superstar}}'', ''Ladies Man'', and ''MacGruber''. Some became classics, others, uh...didn't.
* ''ThePolarExpress'' movie, which some critics and audience members complained felt like a 20-minute short with an hour of filler added onto it. That certainly doesn't stop it from grabbing at your heartstrings, though, and the animation is quite breathtaking, too.
* The ''Film/{{Jumanji}}'' movie, which had a far more complex plot than the children's book it was based on. The same goes for the film adaptation of ''{{Zathura}}'', ''Jumanji'''s SpiritualSuccessor.
* ''Film/SevenBridesForSevenBrothers'' is an example of this done well, following the very short story closely, but expanding on it greatly. For example, the story's title, ''Sobbin Women'', becomes the title of one of the songs.
* It's somewhat arguable whether ''Film/TheTenCommandments'' is a well done or poorly done example, but it is undeniable that the film has more to do with Moses's love life than the ten commandments. Not that that was because of a lack of source material. About the commandments, not Moses' love life.
* Nicolas Roeg's ''Film/DontLookNow'' follows the plot of the original Daphne [=DuMaurier=] short story fairly closely, but greatly expands minor details and subplots, and changing the BackStory.
* Several ''Film/JamesBond'' movies, such as ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'' and ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'', are expansions of short stories written by Ian Fleming. However, those two are somewhat unusual cases. The film of ''Octopussy'' is actually designed as a sequel to the short story (which is completely explained by the title character, so viewers wouldn't need to do homework), while ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'' covers the story's material about Bond helping a defector in its first act, then goes on to have the defector captured among several other plot twists.\\

''Octopussy'' also includes the plot of another story as well, "The Property of a Lady".
** Another movie is a mishmash: ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'', a combination of the eponymous story and "Risico" (Melina and Gonzales from the former, Kristatos and Columbo from the latter), along with a scene from ''Literature/LiveAndLetDie'' (not used in the earlier movie of that name), plus many original elements.
** The burlesque ''Film/CasinoRoyale1967'' actually played out the original novel's story, after a fashion, but that only took up about a tenth of the running time, the rest of it going off in several bizarre tangents.
* Many movies adapted from Creator/StephenKing short stories, such the ''ChildrenOfTheCorn'' series, would be good examples.
** One of the most notorious instances may be the 1992 film ''Film/TheLawnmowerMan''. While elements of the short story technically appear, in how the title character dispatches one of his victims, the plot itself was so far removed from the source material that Stephen King sued to have his name removed from the title.
* PhilipKDick adaptations are prone to this.
** ''Film/TotalRecall1990'', which was an adaptation of Philip K. Dick's short story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale". [[spoiler: The original story ended shortly after the hero returned to his apartment after visiting Recall, the film keeps going in a different direction from there on.]]
** ''MinorityReport''. This one was particularly notable as it retained almost nothing of the original, except for the core premise and most of the characters.
** ''Imposter''
** ''{{Paycheck}}''
* ''Film/JohnnyMnemonic'' was adapted from a short story by William Gibson. Some added elements were taken from other Gibson stories set in the Sprawl, such as the "monk" assassin.
* Spielberg's previous work ([[AuthorExistenceFailure inherited after Stanley Kubrick's death]]) was also a short story adaptation, ''AIArtificialIntelligence'', from Brian Aldiss' "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long".
* The film adaptation of the Hudson Talbott children's book ''WereBackADinosaursStory'', transformed a simple FishOutOfWater tale about large prehistoric creatures dropped into the strange new setting of modern-day New York into a full-blown Disneyfied epic. The dinosaurs got some new friends in the form of runaway disillusioned children, an [[CircusOfFear evil circus owner]] and his Cereal That Makes You Evil (seriously). Walter Cronkite also voices a scientist who gives them a mission of "making children's dreams come true". This is meant to save the world. Somehow.\\
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* ''ItsAWonderfulLife'' was adapted from a Christmas card's short story "The Greatest Gift". Three different screenwriters gave up trying to adapt it before FrankCapra got a hold of the rights.
** You'll notice that the better part of the film isn't even set at Christmas.
* ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'' has a lot of adaptations with a lot of expansion. One of the best is the famed Alastair Sim version, in which much more is added to Scrooge's past than was in the book, and as a result, a better job is done showing just ''how'' Scrooge came to be the miserly JerkAss everyone knows and hates.
** Some additional scenes are so common people tend to forget they aren't in the book, such as Tiny Tim and sometimes the other Cratchit children being introduced near the beginning, Bob's shopping for his family, the young Scrooge meeting Belle at Fezziwig's Christmas ball, Scrooge surprising Mrs. Dilber after his journey with the ghosts, and Scrooge going collecting from his overdue accounts.
** The Reginald Owen version delves a bit more into Scrooge's relationship with Bob Cratchit, as well as with his nephew Fred, although in exchange it omits some of the DarkerAndEdgier scenes, such as the breakup with Belle in the past and the looting and sale of the deceased Scrooge's possessions in the BadFuture.
** In the Alistair Sim and George Scott versions, Fan was Scrooge's ''older'' sister, and the backstory tells that Scrooge's mother died giving birth to him, and this is why his father sent him off to boarding school. The former also has a scene of Fan's own DeathByChildbirth.
*** The Sim Version has twice as many scenes as the standard Christmas past visits. In addition to Fan's death, we also get to see Scrooge and Marley help buy out Fezziwig's company, and then they buy the company themselves. The final visitations surround Marley's death. The Present and future visitations are condensed, however.
*** The Present visit actually does include an additional scene that shows Belle in the present day where she's doing charity work at a poorhouse.
** The Scott version is mostly faithful to the original story, including the often-omitted scene of Belle with her present-day family, but has a couple additional scenes, one at the London Exchange, where the charity solicitors meet Scrooge instead of at the counting house, another with Scrooge's father as he is leaving school, and a third where Christmas Present shows him a camp of homeless people, i.e. the "surplus population" mentioned earlier.
* ''BeingThere'' is largely faithful to the book, but finds a more natural conclusion by way of [[spoiler:Ben's death]]. In addition to adding little side-plots with minor characters like Louise the maid and the lawyers (making them more intriguing), and exploring the relationship between Chance and Ben more closely, it also adds a character, Dr. Allenby, who gives the story a climax when he [[spoiler:discovers Chance's true identity]].
* The most recent version of ''[[Film/TheChroniclesOfNarnia The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe]]'' has some Adaptation Expansion. We get to explore the backstory of the Pevensies, and a battle that took a couple of pages in the book is the main course of the film.
* ''Film/PrinceCaspian'' has even more expansion than ''The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe''.

* The movie ''{{Zoolander}}'' was based off of a series of shorts that were shown during the VH-1 Fashion Awards.
* Every feature film adaptation of the works of Creator/EdgarAllanPoe and Creator/HPLovecraft.
** "The Pit and the Pendulum" has been made into a film several times - generally these adaptations use the actual scene where the main character gets trapped under a giant swinging blade slowly moving downwards for a climax, but have completely different plots that ultimately lead to the situation.
*** ''Film/{{The Raven|2012}}'' (2012) also features an adaptation of "The Pit and the Pendulum" and adds a plot with a killer inspired by the works of Poe.

* ''BrokebackMountain'' expands on the short story by going into more detail on the men's lives apart from each other, particularly Jack's relationship with his wife and her family, and Ennis's with his daughters.
* Creator/RoaldDahl's children's novel ''FantasticMrFox'' was adapted by WesAnderson. Upon viewing the trailer, it seems that much of the expansion comes in the form of focusing on the animals' plans to evade the farmers, and the relationship among the various members of Mr. Fox's friends and family. The ending to the movie was found in Dahl's archives.
* The [[Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory 2005 version]] of ''CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' hews much closer to its source novel than the [[Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory 1971 version]] (even including the story of the Indian prince) but also adds unnecessary backstory about [[DarkerAndEdgier Willy Wonka's strained relationship with his dentist father]]. Tying in its resolution to that of the main plot causes plenty of EndingFatigue.
* ''Film/ThreeHundred'' is based on a short graphic novel, so it didn't need much expanding. Only Gorgo's plotline in Sparta was added. The graphic novel never returns to Sparta once Leonidas leaves. The relationship between the Captain and his Son is explored a bit more, as is the relationship between the Captain's son and Stellios. The scope of the battles has also been expanded since the movie features creatures and situations that were not present in the graphic novel. Oddly enough, the movie was more of a comic book than the comic book.
* ''ThreeTenToYuma'' was originally a short story of about ten pages, set almost entirely in a hotel room and on the walk to the train. The movie adaptations have both rather broadened the scope.
* Creator/ErnestHemingway's short story "The Killers" leaves a lot of questions unanswered. The 1946 FilmNoir adaptation sends an unlikely detective--an insurance adjuster--to Nick Adams' bar to find out the answers... so the film writers had to come up with some.
* ''The Emperor Jones'' added about an hour or so of prologue to show on screen all the events that had been BackStory in Eugene O'Neill's play.
* The adaptation of Susan Orlean's narrative nonfiction book (itself expanded from article to book-length) ''The Orchid Thief'', which is ''Film/{{Adaptation}}''! It morphed from the true life tale of an orchid poacher in Florida, to twin brothers, car chases, murder, ExecutiveMeddling, Narration, every trope in the universe, AuthorAvatar, etc.
* ''BicentennialMan''. Much to everyone's horror, it altered Asimov's reflection on the nature of what it is to be human into a TastesLikeDiabetes love story.

* F. Scott Fitzgerald's farcical short story ''TheCuriousCaseOfBenjaminButton'' was adapted to a three-hour long epic romantic film. So much was added that much of the story's final act about Benjamin becoming a teenager and then a preteen was cut out.
* ''Film/WhereTheWildThingsAre'' is a particularly bizarre example. Practically necessary since the original story was ''10 sentences long.'' The story is still, on the surface, a very simple tale about a child running away and playing with imaginary monster friends. But thanks to some intentionally obvious symbolism, the interactions between the monsters tells the [[TearJerker underlying story of Max being dragged through his parents' nasty divorce.]]
* ''Talk Radio'' began life as a monologue-heavy one-act play. The movie used the play as the basis of a RomanAClef BioPic about Alan Berg, the controversial Denver radio talk show host who was murdered by a white supremacist gang in 1984, with the play's protagonist, Barry Champlain, as a stand-in for Berg.
* ''Ugetsu'' is an example of a well-known adaptation that greatly expanded the material of the original ''Tales of Moonlight and Rain'', which was a collection of stories unrelated in all but theme. Two stories were spliced together, with a few references from the others, new content was added and an award winning movie was made.
* ''Film/OliveTheOtherReindeer'' was turned by [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Matt Groening]] and Creator/DrewBarrymore from a tiny 20-page children's book into a 90-minute cartoon movie. That ''rocks''. They even preserved the drawing style of the book. You ''must'' watch this movie at Christmas.
* ''Film/PeterPan'', the 2003 film version put a lot of emphasis on Peter and Wendy's feelings for one another, making a whole side plot that had to be resolved, cuing a BittersweetEnding and TearJerker.
* ''CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'' expands from original children's book about falling food getting out of proportion, to a movie about quirky scientist who creates an invention that turns water into food, his troubling relationship with his father after the death of his mother, Chicken Brent!, the evil obese mayor, sparking love interest between inventor and secret geek female weather reporter, MR. T!, Monkey!, Ratbirds!, Sardines!, etc...
* ''MeetTheRobinsons'' added a whole time travel plot around the children's story ''A Day With Wilbur Robinson''. The second act, where Lewis meets the Robinson family and looks for Grandpa's teeth, is the only part of the movie that's actually in the book.

* ''TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'' likewise started as a poem by Tim Burton.
* ''Slingblade'' was first a short film called [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyFD0JfiKfc "Some Folks Call It A Slingblade".]] Mm-hmm. The short story was reshot to serve as the first scene in the film.
* ''TheScarletLetter'' film adaptation adds gore, Indian raids, and a whole first act to detail the sexual affair dealt with in the rest of the film.
* ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture''. Adapted from a one-hour pilot that was never made, and it shows. Instead of relying on [[{{Filler}} adding extra scenes and dialogue]], they [[{{Filler}} extended the establishing shots and ship movement sequences]], possibly hoping that the audience would be too mesmerized by the special effects to get bored.
* ''NightAtTheMuseum'' significantly expands on the cute tale from the original children's book, adding into it a complete adventure involving an ancient Egyptian tablet.
* The original play ''GlengarryGlenRoss'' did not feature Blake or [[OneSceneWonder his scene]] at all. Most agree the story works a lot better with the added setup.

* ''TheBox'' was originally a five-page short story called "Button, Button", written by Richard Matheson. It expanded under the hand of Richard Kelly.
* ''Film/TheSorcerersApprentice'', a live-action film, based on a short in the anthological animated musical film, ''Disney/{{Fantasia}}''. No Mickey, but [[VisualEffectsOfAwesome the special effects department]] had a fun time doing their job. Oh and it managed to include a homage to the short. The short itself is based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's poem "Der Zauberlehrling" (= The Sorcerer's Apprentice).
* Contrary to what WordOfDante might tell you, ''TheHauntedMansion'' has no real backstory. [[Film/TheHauntedMansion The 2003 movie]] responded by [[AscendedFanon ascending some fanon]] and bringing in a few {{Canon Foreigner}}s.
* The TV-movie of Kurt Vonnegut's short story ''HarrisonBergeron'' is a truly extreme case. The story is a single five-page scene; the movie is 99 minutes long and ''doesn't have that scene in it''.
* At the time of writing the movie, the ''SuperMarioBros'' series didn't have much story or defined personalities for the characters unless you counted the various cartoon series or somewhat obscure comics. Because of this, the writers of the ''Film/SuperMarioBros'' movie had to write the story from the angle of a prequel, exploring ''how'' the Mario Bros. became the '''Super''' Mario Bros. In the process Mario and Luigi were given an older brother/younger brother dynamic/conflict and Koopa was provided a motivation for needing the Princess.

* ''Film/WeirdScience'' was adapted from the 1950s [[WeirdScience comic book of the same name]], specifically the story "Made of the Future" in issue #5. The adaption expanded upon and [[MagicalComputer modernised the premise]]. And given a "Creator/BratPack" flavour to boot.

* ''Literature/ChroniclesOfNarnia 2 Literature/PrinceCaspian:'' book-Miraz is just a generic tyrant, movie-Miraz is specifically a Borgia/Medici style tyrant. It also adds the rivalry between Peter and Caspian, and Caspian getting PromotedToLoveInterest for Susan.
* ''Film/{{Battleship}}'' is an adaptation of the game TabletopGame/{{Battleship}}, which has no plot. The enemy fleet is aliens (with peglike missiles among their weapons) who disable radar and envelop the fleet in a shield, establishing a game board of sorts.
* ''Film/HarryPotter'': Throughout the films, multiple scenes are added; sometimes they are building up on past material, sometimes they are inventing it on the fly for the film's continuity. One of the most prominent examples of the latter: the wonderfully cute and spontaneous dancing sequence between Harry and Hermione in the seventh film.
** Another very nice {{Tearjerker}} bit of expansion is Slughorn's Francis story:
-->'''Slughorn:''' I once had a fish... Francis. He was very dear to me. One afternoon, I came downstairs and... it vanished. Poof.\\
'''Harry:''' Poof.\\
* Some time later*\\
'''Slughorn:''' It was a student who gave me Francis. One day I came down to my office, and there was a bowl with only a few inches of clear water in it. And there was a flower petal floating on the water. Before my eyes it started to sink, and just before it hit the bottom, it transformed into a wee fish. It was a beautiful piece of magic, wondrous to behold. The flower petal was from a [[MeaningfulName lily]]. The day Francis disappeared was the day your mother... ''(starts crying)''
** However, the films have been forced to omit scenes involving the Dursleys, completely cut out the Quidditch match in the fourth book that led to a team mascot fight between the Leprechauns and Veela, and ignored a rather uninteresting sideplot involving Hermione trying to liberate the House Elves. The fifth book also had a chapter with Dobby appearing and a moment where Harry bellowed at Ron and Hermione "VOLDEMORT KILLED MY PARENTS!" (similar to the memetic Batman quote "MY PARENTS ARE DEAAAAD!"), but these apparently never made it to the final cut of the movie.
** Crossing between this trope and CompressedAdaptation, many of the "new" scenes are created to convey plot points from the books in a quicker fashion. For example, the fifth movie has a scene in which Luna shows the Thestrals to Harry. This never happened in the book, but the scene covers the exposition of three separate book scenes (Luna telling Harry that she believes him, Hagrid showing Harry the Thestrals, and Luna telling Harry what happened to her mother).
* The entire plot of ''GangsOfNewYork'', including the very existence of the protagonist and his LoveInterest, is original to the film. The book it's based on is a sociological study of almost a century's worth of [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin gangs]]. It's not really "about" any person in particular, much less the epic saga of his revenge.
* Variation with ''Film/TheHobbit'': though it's a three-movie adaptation of a book that is significantly shorter than ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', the latter of which got three films that trimmed a lot out of the plot to produce some still fairly long movies, Creator/PeterJackson and team got the majority of the material from the appendices of ''The Lord Of The Rings'' and other parts explaining what else was happening while Bilbo and the dwarves journeyed to the Lonely Mountain. So they're not exactly pulling new material out from thin air to lengthen the films, but rather taking material from other parts of TheVerse and rearranging it to fit with ''The Hobbit''. Tolkien himself actually considered doing a revised and expanded version of the novel along similar lines that would serve as a more overt prequel to ''The Lord of the Rings'', but ultimately decided against it.
** The first film provides an expanded role for Radagast, whose presence in all of Tolkien's writings is very minor and is only mentioned by name in The Hobbit.
* The original ''Film/{{Frankenweenie}}'' was 30 minutes. When Creator/TimBurton revisited it years later, he turned it into a 87-minute film with a subplot involving other kids using Victor's formula to turn their own dead pets into animal versions of classic movie monsters ({{and|Zoidberg}} Franchise/{{Gamera}}), culminating with Mr. Whiskers (the vampire cat) being involved in the climatic windmill scene.
* ''Film/RearWindow'' took a short story titled, ''It Had To Be Murder'', and added a love interest for Jeffries, plus subplots about the other tennants.
* The Warren Ellis comic ''{{Red}}'' was originally a three-issue thriller about a retired CIA agent being lined up for assassination by a new administration that was horrified about what would happen if his track record was made public. The movie adaptation made it a comedy and threw in a bunch of fellow retired agents - all with the blessing of Ellis, who admitted the actual miniseries "would maybe run forty minutes, if there were a musical number."
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Epic}}'' is a loose expansion of ''Main/WilliamJoyce'''s The Leaf Men and The Brave Good Bugs .

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* Film novelizations inevitably require more detail to fill out the format. You should be prepared for "extra" scenes and dialogue that were cut from the shooting script, as well as inner monologues that give the adapters the chance to show off their narration skills. (Remember that in literature, TalkingIsAFreeAction.)
* ''Literature/FlowersForAlgernon'' was initially an award-winning short story by Daniel Keyes. Later on, he adapted it into a full-length award-winning novel.
* ''The Flood'' is ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved'' adapted into book form. It adds a lot of details which were not in the original game. It also wildly alters existing characters, and introduces a truly awful slapstick pairing of an Elite and a Grunt who fail time and time again to stop the Chief (who has gone from being a quiet but professional soldier in the previous books to being a walking cliche).
* ''{{Descent}}'' has been adapted into a trilogy of novels. The novels take the games' scant plot and turn it into several interlocking plotlines involving epic badass piloting, corporate politics made entertaining mainly by Dravis's upgrade from CorruptCorporateExecutive to full-fledged MagnificentBastard, and a rather comical look at the plot through the aliens' [[hottip:*:([[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot The games quietly forgot about the aliens.]]) and robots' eyes/sensors.
* Donna [=VanLiere=]'s book "The Christmas Shoes" is a detailed story that evolved from New Song's song of the same name. The book added much more to the story than the man who helped the boy buy shoes on Christmas Eve, and became the first in a series of books that continued the stories of the man and boy.
* ''HowToTeachPhysicsToYourDog'' began its life as a [[http://crisper.livejournal.com/26562.html Rabbit Hole Day]] blog post.
* ''Nightfall'' by Creator/IsaacAsimov is an interesting example of adaptation expansion within a single medium. It was originally one of the most mind-bending short stories of early science fiction. He and Creator/RobertSilverberg later adapted the same story into a full length novel (for purely commercial reasons, reputedly). Most agree that the novel's only notable virtue is containing the original, in edited form, as a chapter.
** Similarly, Asimov's novella ''Bicentennial Man'' was expanded by Silverberg into ''The Positronic Man'', a full-length novel, which was later adapted into the film ''Film/BicentennialMan'', mentioned above.
* ''EndersGame'' by OrsonScottCard began its life as a short story before being expanded into a (much more famous) novel.
* ''Wild Things'' by Dave Eggers is the novel adaptation of ''Literature/WhereTheWildThingsAre''. It was written because of the film.
* ''Literature/AgathaHAndTheAirshipCity'' and, more, ''Literature/AgathaHAndTheClockworkPrincess'' contain material not included in the Webcomic/GirlGenius comics.
* The [[Literature/DoctorWhoNovelisations novelisations]] of ''Series/DoctorWho'' television stories often expand upon them. Most famously, the novel of ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks Remembrance of the Daleks]]'' provided details about the Special Weapons Dalek, as well as the triumvirate of Rassilon, Omega, and the Other. Many fans consider it the predecessor to the Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures.
* The novelization of ''Film/FlashGordon'' massively expands upon the characters, giving Flash a childhood with [[AbusiveParents an abusive father]] and Dale Arden a backstory in which her uncle (or another, unspecified older man) seduced and raped her, which was neatly tied in with Ming the Merciless's treatment of her.
* Literature/WarmBodies began as a short story titled ''I Am a Zombie Filled With Love'' before being extended into a full-length novel. The story is still posted on the author's blog [[http://www.burningbuilding.com/zombie.htm here]].
* Ward Moore's ''Literature/BringTheJubilee'' was first published as a novella and later expanded to a full novel.
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[[folder:Live Action TV]]
* ''TheWorstWitch'' has gone through this several times over. The TV movie padded itself with sequences including a "scaring contest" and an early sequence with Punk Charlotte Rae, and the later series would pad the same adaptation by using the "Ethel's a pig" sequence as the basis for an episode (introducing a whole new character in Mr Blossom's nephew Charlie), while adding in a climactic chase through the school grounds. Bizarrely, it's otherwise managed to incorporate adaptations of the next three books as-is (although ''The Worst Witch Strikes Again'' was made into two separate episodes).\\

Many of the episodes in the first two series have new plots not taken from the books, or expanded from small references in the books (e.g the main plot of first episode "The Battle of the Broomsticks" is based around a line mentioning that Mildred's Broom got broken after she flew it into some bins on her first day). The third series is entirely new material, as at that time [[OvertookTheSeries the books only went up to the second year]]. Since then two books have come out covering Mildred's third year which are different to the third series.
* Anthology horror series like ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' often have episodes based on short stories which expand on the original stories considerably.
** And, in fact, the show itself got this treatment when some individual episodes were adapted into short graphic novels.
* ''The Story Of Tracy Beaker'', which had her ''repeatedly'' adopted by Cam/sent back to the Dumping Ground over the course of five seasons, along with lots of new material. (In the book, her adoption by Cam is the HappyEnding, and the later books in the series are about her living with Cam.)
* ''Series/PrettyGuardianSailorMoon'' adapted only the first arc of the manga, while adding in various new elements such as Sailor Luna, Zoicite's loyalty to Endymion, "Nephikichi", Darkury (in addition to Mamoru also turning evil), a teenage clone of Queen Beryl, and different CharacterDevelopment for many of the characters, particularly Sailor Venus.
* The original British version of ''Series/{{The Office|UK}}'' ran [[BritishBrevity 14 episodes]] and focuses on four main characters. The [[Series/TheOfficeUS American adaptation]] has run over 100 episodes and features a much larger cast.
* The ''Series/BeingHumanRemake'' has far more per season than the original, with more plots added alongside the original's. This happens often - the main reason British shows are remade rather than aired straight is that American television has more episodes per season. (SciFiChannel seasons are short by American standards and ''Series/BeingHuman'' has gone up from six to eight episodes per season, so it's no longer a ''huge'' example of this. WIth those other shows, we're talking a move from a 6-ep UK season to a 22-ep US one.)
* ''GossipGirl'', based on an 11 (eventually 12 + spinoff) novel series by Cecily von Ziegesar, has been expanded to a 3+ season series on TheCW.
* ''{{V}}'': Originally a two-part miniseries, now turned into a full fledged series.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' was originally a movie, before becoming a seven-season TV series. Specifically, the show depicts what (supposedly) happened ''after'' the movie, when the Summers family moved from L.A. to a small California town.
** Then, the series spills over into a comic adaption after concluding its TV run.
* Similar to the above, ''Series/{{Angel}}'', another JossWhedon work, has a BolivianArmyEnding, but it gets a comic expansion to help sort out the loose ends.
* [[FaerieTaleTheatre Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre]] expanded on the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
* When ''ShitMyDadSays'' was announced as an upcoming TV series, the Twitter feed it was based on had only 67 tweets. It's safe to say the show contains more words than that ''per episode''.
* In ''TheDeadZone'' TV Series, the BigBad of the book and movie is still around, but rather than being obsessed with him, our hero is too busy solving the MysteryOfTheWeek to worry much about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
* The first season of ''MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' ended up trimming the 50 episodes of ''KyoryuSentaiZyuranger'' that Saban picked up from Toei into 40 episodes, with the "Doomsday" two-parter [[SeriesFauxnale originally intended to be the finale]]. However, when the show proved to be a bigger success than expected, Saban had no choice but to contract Toei to shoot additional footage specifically for ''MMPR'', since they were not ready to adapt the SuperSentai franchise's tradition of changing the team's costumes and robots every year. For the remaining twenty episodes of Season 1 and the first thirteen episodes of Season 2, ''MMPR'' used completely new action footage which featured the original ''Zyuranger'' costumes and robots with all new monsters that were not from any prior Sentai show.
* The ''PrettyLittleLiars'' TV series is doing this, adding plots for characters that weren't major in the book, and adding characters as love interests, probably because the book series only had 8 novels and most of the plot involved them trying to find A.
* ''Series/JeevesAndWooster'' added plenty of extra material to the [[Literature/JeevesAndWooster short stories]] being adapted, including events that Bertie wouldn't have seen (and therefore couldn't have narrated).
* Due to the POV-centred nature of the books, ''Series/GameOfThrones'' invented or expanded on scenes featuring major characters who don't have [=POVs=] in the books.
* [=NBC=]'s ''Series/{{Hannibal}}'' expands on the flashbacks in the books to show Hannibal Lecter before he was caught and imprisoned.
* ''{{Series/Les Revenants}}'', despite having fewer people coming back to life than the movie it's based on, has more time to develop both the plot and the characters.

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* When CountingCrows covered JoniMitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi", they added a couple of verses, giving the song an environmental message that wasn't really present in the original.
* The RedHotChiliPeppers cover of "Love Rollercoaster" adds a rap verse that was not in the original song.
* The third movements of GustavMahler's second and third symphonies are greatly expanded instrumental versions of the Lieder "Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt" and "Ablösung im Sommer."

*** The final chapter [[spoiler: picks up after the events of ''EndOfEvangelion'', showing Shinji and Asuka's fates after Human Instrumentality is averted]].

** One of the most notorious instances may be the 1992 film ''Film/TheLawnmowerMan''. While elements of the short story technically appear, in how the title character dispatches one of his victims, the plot itself was so far removed from the source material, that Stephen King sued to have his name removed from the title.

* The [[ComicBook/PocketGod comic book adaptation]] of ''VideoGame/PocketGod'' not only puts the pygmies on a larger island, but also gives them different personalities and designs to distinguish them from each other. Later in the series, a tribe of female pygmies is introduced; which the video games [[OneGenderRace lack]].

* The ''Series/BeingHumanRemake'' has far more per season than the original, with more plots added alongside the original's. This happens often - the main reason British shows are remade rather than aired straight is that American television has more episodes per season. (SciFiChannel seasons are short by American standards and ''Series/BeingHuman'' has gone up from six to eight episodes per season, so it's no longer a ''huge'' example of this. However, sometimes it's a move from a 6-ep UK season to a 22-ep US one.)

* When the game ''[[FireEmblemJugdral Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu]]'' was adapted into a manga by shoujo author Mitsuki Oosawa, she decided to add more content and plot development. As a result, this adaptation covers a lot of characterization of the side characters and goes into more detail on what happens within the countries where the battles happen. For instance, it creates a rather big subplot on the... [[BrotherSisterIncest unique situation]] between [[BadAss Eltosian]] and [[BadassPrincess Lachesis]]... though [[DerailingLoveInterests at the cost of making Eltosian's wife a jealous bitch]] and omitting Lachesis's suitor [[PunchClockHero Beowulf]] [[spoiler: so she can have [[KnightInShiningArmor Fin]] as her SecondLove]]. The LoveTriangle between [[BlowYouAway Levin]], [[LadyOfWar Fury]] and [[GenkiGirl Sylvia]] develops relatively smoothly, and the losing girl [[spoiler:(Sylvia)]] is given a far more sympathetic role; and it delves rather well in the psyche of the future MagnificentBastard and BigBad, [[spoiler: Alvis of Velthomer]], making him a JerkAssWoobie.

* Almost all of the ''Franchise/{{Barbie}}'' movies are this, seeing most of them are based off of short tales, such as ''WesternAnimation/BarbieInTheNutcracker,'' ''WesternAnimation/BarbieAsTheSwanPrincess'', ''WesternAnimation/BarbieInTheTwelveDancingPrincesses,'' etc. In ''WesternAnimation/BarbieAsRapunzel'', the original story is a ''DreamSequence''.

* Almost all of the ''{{Barbie}}'' movies are this, seeing most of them are based off of short tales, such as ''Barbie in Theatre/TheNutcracker,'' ''Barbie as [[SwanLake the Swan Princess]],'' ''BarbieInTheTwelveDancingPrincesses,'' etc. In ''BarbieAsRapunzel'', the original story is a ''DreamSequence''.

* ''{{Saiyuki}}'' has a lot of built up bits in the anime (the first series filler being a lot less random than the second and third, the filler tends to focus on backstories of the characters being dragged up in some way). Homura (and his arc) was created for the first anime (by the original author though). He does however feature briefly in the manga but his main story is told in the anime. Hazel was originally the same but Minekura decided she wanted to do her own arc about him (which is why the anime and manga are very different, the anime writers interpreted her directions differently)

* The 2005 version of ''CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' hews closely to its source novel (even including the story of the Indian prince) but also adds an unnecessary backstory about Willy Wonka's strained relationship with his dentist father. Tying in its resolution to that of the main plot causes plenty of EndingFatigue.

* ''Manga/DragonBall'' does this with a few episodes. A notable example; in the manga, there's a scene where a female Red Ribbon officer [[TheSmurfettePrinciple (and apparently the only one in the whole army)]] presents Commander Red with a Dragon Ball. In the anime adaption of that episode, not only do you see her retrieve it, but later, [[GenreSavvy upon realizing that Goku's attack is going to spell the end of the Army]] she loots Red's riches and gets out of Dodge.
** Gohan's training in preparation for the fight with the Saiyans. In the manga, all we see is Gohan going off after discovering the new clothes Piccolo gave him while he was sleeping, and then in the next chapter they skip ahead six months to his training with Piccolo. However, in the anime, we see a good amount of Gohan's adventures on the island Piccolo left him on for those six months, and we get to see [[CharacterDevelopment him gradually develop from a whiny little kid to a confident, self-sufficient fighter]].

* The Warren Ellis comic ''{{Red}}'' was originally a three-issue thriller about a retired CIA agent being lined up for assassination by a new administration that was horrified about what would happen if his track record was made public. The movie adaptation made it a comedy and threw in a bunch of fellow retired agents - all with the blessing of Ellis, who admitted the actual miniseries "would maybe run forty minutes, if there were a musical number."

* [=NBC=]'s ''Series/{{Hannibal}}'' expands on the flashbacks in the books to show Hannibal Lecter before he was caught and imprisoned.

* [=NBC=]'s ''Series/Hannibal'' expands on the flashbacks in the books to show Hannibal Lecter before he was caught and imprisoned.

** The Key of the Starry Sky arc in the anime is pretty much considered canon -- the manga even gives it a passing mention. It gives Earthland versions of the Royal Military characters met in Edolas, [[spoiler:timeskip looks of returning Oracion Seis members]], learn that Dranbalt was DrowningHisSorrows since the previous arc, and Kinana has some needed development concerning her past (which was only mentioned in her profile in the manga).

* When the game [[FireEmblemJugdral Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu]] was adapted into a manga by shoujo author Mitsuki Oosawa, she decided to add more content and plot development. As a result, this adaptation covers a lot of characterization of the side characters and goes into more detail on what happens within the countries where the battles happen. For instance, it creates a rather big subplot on the... [[BrotherSisterIncest unique situation]] between [[BadAss Eltosian]] and [[BadassPrincess Lachesis]]... though [[DerailingLoveInterests at the cost of making Eltosian's wife a jealous bitch]] and omitting Lachesis's suitor [[PunchClockHero Beowulf]] [[spoiler: so she can have [[KnightInShiningArmor Fin]] as her SecondLove]]. The LoveTriangle between [[BlowYouAway Levin]], [[LadyOfWar Fury]] and [[GenkiGirl Sylvia]] develops relatively smoothly, and the losing girl [[spoiler:(Sylvia)]] is given a far more sympathetic role; and it delves rather well in the psyche of the future MagnificentBastard and BigBad, [[spoiler: Alvis of Velthomer]], making him a JerkAssWoobie.

* ''Anime/LuckyStar'' had a lot of new material added into the anime. ''For example'', the ''entirety'' of [[SuzumiyaHaruhi Haruhi]].
** Also, anybody who watched the first episode remembers, for better or for worse, the food discussion that took up roughly half the episode. The manga's version of the discussion? Four strips, focusing on the choco-coronet.

** The anime also added an episode to finally give 3rd Espada Tia Harribel a backstory and motivations, something the Manga did not do.

* ''SuzumiyaHaruhi'': The original LightNovels story of "Endless Eight" was a short story that tells the story of a GroundhogDayLoop and its resolution, as seen through the 15,498th and final iteration through the loop. The anime, on the other hand has aired eight episodes of this, which depict: (a) an unnumbered iteration where the protagonists don't realize they're in a time loop; (b) six nearly identical subsequent iterations with only cosmetic differences where the SOS brigade discover the loop but, contrary to the short story, ''don't'' manage to solve it; and (c) a final episode--iteration number 15,532--where Kyon finally manages to sever the loop and end the 595 years of repetition upon repetition.

** The movie, ''Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoshitsu'' (''The Disappearance of Suzumiya Haruhi'') also counts, since it expands a rather short novel into a massive, nearly-three-hours-long feature film. And it does so '''''WONDERFULLY'''''.

* The ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'' manga had nineteen cards, the anime had 52--which is appropriately serialized for a 52-episode anime setup.
** There were also new plot threads and the addition of Meilin.

* An unusual example of this trope is ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' when it is adapted into the manga ''Gundam: The Origin''. Being a 43-episode TV series, there's no shortage of source material, but the author, Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, did more than that----he streamlined the original storyline while visiting many background events and character histories. This included [[WorthyOpponent Char]] [[AcePilot Anzable]] and [[TheChick Sayla]] [[ActionGirl Mass's]] childhood and exile, Char's subsequent enrollment in [[TheEmpire Zeon's]] military, the path to the One Year War (up to the Battle of Loum, where TheFederation's space fleet suffered a devastating defeat) and [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure General Revil's]] capture and escape. Yasuhiko's adaptation is quite popular in Japan and this expansion is praised by fans, and the manga is still ongoing.