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* Creator/AlexandreDumas' ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'' has been adapted [[AdaptationOverdosed countless times]]. On this wiki alone: [[Film/TheThreeMusketeers1921 1921]], [[Film/TheThreeMusketeers1948 1948]], [[Film/TheThreeMusketeers1953 1953]], [[Film/TheThreeMusketeers1961 1961]], [[Film/TheThreeMusketeers1973 1973]], [[Film/TheThreeMusketeers1993 1993]], [[Film/TheThreeMusketeers2011 2011]] and [[Film/TheThreeMusketeers2023 2023]]. [[DerivativeWorks/TheThreeMusketeers This isn't even scratching the surface!]]

* The Creator/{{Sky 1}} {{Made For TV Movie}}s based on the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novels have been generally well-received, although it's been observed they've been getting steadily more [[PragmaticAdaptation pragmatic]]. ''Film/GoingPostal'' keeps the main characters, their basic characterisation and the broad strokes of the plot, and proceeds to change almost everything else.

* The ''Franchise/{{Rambo}}'' movies started out as [[Film/FirstBlood an adaptation]] of a novel entitled ''Literature/FirstBlood''. The movies diverge from the source material after the first act of the first film, and never look back.

** ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967'': In the [[Literature/TheJungleBook book]], Kaa was a wise and trusted friend who took over as Mowgli's mentor when he was too grown-up for Baloo. Book-Hathi was the wisest and strongest of the animals and generally acknowledged as Master of the Jungle (until Mowgli learned a secret about him). The monkey-folk didn't have a king, and if they had, it wouldn't be a member of a different genus from a couple of thousand miles away. Book-"Father Wolf" is renamed "Rama" which is the name of a ''bull'' in Kipling's original. And many other things as well. Other than the setting and some names, there is next to no resemblance.

* ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'', deviated from [[Literature/TheLostWorld1995 its literary material]] even further, completely overhauling the plot, changing the villains to all new characters, adding a climax where one of the dinosaurs is brought back to the mainland and goes on a rampage, and even [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking altering the title]].

* ''Literature/BattlefieldEarth'''s [[Film/BattlefieldEarth film ]] is a good example of a PragmaticAdaptation not being enough to salvage the source material, but can at least be said to have turned out better than a purely faithful adaptation.

* ''Literature/JurassicPark'' changed quite a bit, including deleting characters or making them composites of each other, changing Nedry from trying to get back at Ingen for how poorly he'd been treated by them to simply being greedy, making Hammond a kindly old man who created the park to make children smile instead of being only in it for the money, deleted scenes, gave the kids a much larger role in the plot (in addition to switching their ages), and completely changing the ending.
* ''Literature/TheLostWorld1995'', deviated from its literary material even further, completely overhauling the plot, changing the villains to all new characters, adding a climax where one of the dinosaurs is brought back to the mainland and goes on a rampage, and even [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking altering the]] [[Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark title]].
* ''[[{{Series/ChildhoodsEnd}} Childhood's End]]'' has been adapted into a three-part miniseries, with some obvious changes to fit with a modern setting.

** ''Film/TheHowling1981'' shares its basic premise and certain plot points with the first novel, but otherwise tells its own story and the way it depicts the werewolves differs slightly. In both stories, the protagonist is a woman who is left traumatised by a attack and moves to a remote town in the countryside, only to be terrorised by werewolves while her husband grows distant. The movie also notably has a more [[BlackComedy darkly]] [[LighterAndSofter comedic tone]] compared to the novel.

* The 1990 film ''Film/{{Mermaids}}'' is based on a 1986 novel of the same name by Patty Dann.

* ''Film/PoorThings'' is based on [[Literature/PoorThings Alasdair Grey's novel of the same title]].