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Films and Television Programs Based on Books

Ever find out your favourite movie was actually a book before it hit the silver screen!? Ever wanted more context on a movie but didn't know it was on written paper before hand? Then this list is for you! From The Bone Collector to The Day After Tomorrow, check out these movies and books that are not commonly known to have been based after each other! Don't forget the popcorn with layered butter!

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Shutter Island
Paramount Pictures presents a Phoenix Pictures production in association with Sikelia Productions and Appian Way ; produced by Mike Medavoy ... [et al.] ; screenplay by Laeta Kalogridis ; directed by Martin Scorsese. --
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Based on Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane

Shutter Island
Dennis Lehane.
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What the duck
writer, Chip Zdarsky ; penciler, Joe Quinones ; inkers, Joe Quinones & Joe Rivera, with Paolo Rivera ; color artists, Rico Renzi, with Rachelle Rosenberg ; back-up story artists, Rob Guillory [and three others] ; letterer, VC's Travis Lanham.
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Howard the duck
produced by Gloria Katz ; directed by Willard Huyck ; written by Willard Huyck & Gloria Katz. --
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Savages
Universal Pictures presents, in association with Relativity Media ; produced by Moritz Borman & Eric Kopeloff ; screenplay by Shane Salerno & Don Winslow & Oliver Stone ; directed by Oliver Stone. --
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Savages
Universal Pictures presents, in association with Relativity Media ; produced by Moritz Borman & Eric Kopeloff ; screenplay by Shane Salerno & Don Winslow & Oliver Stone ; directed by Oliver Stone. --
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Savages
Don Winslow.
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The homesman
Glendon Swarthout ; [with a new afterword by Miles Swarthout]. --
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The homesman
Saban Films and Europacorp in association with Peter Brant and the Javelina Film Company and Ithaca Films ; a Michael Fitzgerald and Tommy Lee Jones production ; produced by Peter Brant, Brian Kennedy, Luc Besson ; directed by Tommy Lee Jones ; screenplay
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Psycho
Shamley Productions ; produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock ; screenplay by Joseph Stefano. --
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