Logan. Poster of the 2017 movie and cover of the 1982 comic book, Wolverine
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Wolverine
Roy Thomas, Len Wein, John Romita Sr., 1982
movie vs comic book
James Mangold, 2017

In 2029, no mutants have been born in 25 years, and an aging Logan suffers as his healing ability is failing. Working as a limo driver in El Paso, Texas, under his birth name James Howlett, he and mutant tracker Caliban care for 90-year-old Charles Xavier, Logan’s mentor and founder of the X-Men, in an abandoned smelting plant in northern Mexico.


X-Men: Days of Future Past. Poster of the 2014 movie and cover of the 1963 comic book, X-Men
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X-Men
Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, 1963
movie vs comic book
Bryan Singer, 2014

In a dystopian 2023, Sentinels have been programmed to identify and hunt down mutants and any humans who help them. In Moscow, a small band of X-Men survivors consisting of Kitty Pryde, Colossus, Blink, Warpath, Bishop, Iceman and Sunspot are attacked by the Sentinels, but Kitty sends Bishop’s consciousness back in time a few days to warn the others as to ensure their survival.


X-Men: Days of Future Past. Poster of the 2014 movie and cover of the book novelization
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X-Men: Days of Future Past Prose Novel
Alexander C. Irvine, 2014
movie vs book   [NOVELIZATION]
Bryan Singer, 2014

In a dystopian 2023, Sentinels have been programmed to identify and hunt down mutants and any humans who help them. In Moscow, a small band of X-Men survivors consisting of Kitty Pryde, Colossus, Blink, Warpath, Bishop, Iceman and Sunspot are attacked by the Sentinels, but Kitty sends Bishop’s consciousness back in time a few days to warn the others as to ensure their survival.


Star Trek: First Contact. Poster of the 1996 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Star Trek: First Contact
J.M. Dillard, 1996
movie vs book   [NOVELIZATION]
Jonathan Frakes, 1996

In the 24th century, Captain Jean-Luc Picard awakens from a nightmare in which he relived his assimilation by the cybernetic Borg six years earlier. Learning the fleet is losing the battle, the Enterprise crew disobeys orders and heads for Earth, where a single Borg Cube ship holds its own against a group of Starfleet vessels.


X-Men. Poster of the 2000 movie and cover of the book novelization
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X-Men
Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Dean Wesley Smith, 2000
movie vs book   [NOVELIZATION]
Bryan Singer, 2000

In Nazi-occupied Poland, in 1944, young Erik Lehnsherr is separated from his parents upon entrance into the Auschwitz concentration camp. In Meridian, Mississippi, 17-year-old Marie D’Ancanto accidentally puts her boyfriend into a coma after she kisses him, because her mutant ability absorbs the power and life force of others.


X2: X-Men United. Poster of the 2003 movie and cover of the book novelization
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X-Men 2
Chris Claremont, 2003
movie vs book   [NOVELIZATION]
Bryan Singer, 2003

At the White House, brainwashed teleporting mutant Nightcrawler attacks the President of the United States. Later, Logan returns to Professor Xavier’s school for mutants, and Xavier tracks Nightcrawler using Cerebro. Stryker’s forces invade the school and abduct some of the students.


Excalibur. Poster of the 1981 movie and cover of the 1485 book, Le Morte d'Arthur
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Le Morte d'Arthur
Thomas Malory, 1485
movie vs book
John Boorman, 1981

Uthur Pendragon is given the mystical sword Excalibur by the wizard Merlin. At his death, Uthur buries the sword into a stone, and the next man that can pull it out will be King of England. Several years later, Arthur, Uthur’s bastard son, draws Excalibur and becomes King. Guided by Merlin, Arthur marries Guenevere and gathers the Knights of the Round Table.


A Christmas Carol. Poster of the 1999 movie and cover of the 1843 book
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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens, 1843
movie vs book
David Hugh Jones, 1999

On Christmas Eve in 1843, Ebenezer Scrooge, a surly money-lender at a counting house for seven years after his business partner Jacob Marley passed away, does not share the merriment of Christmas. In his house, Scrooge encounters the ghost of his deceased business partner Jacob Marley, who warns him to repent his wicked ways or he will be condemned in the afterlife like he was, informing him that three spirits will visit him during the next three nights.


Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Poster of the 2022 movie and cover of the 1978 comic book, Doctor Strange Master of the Mystic Arts
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Doctor Strange Master of the Mystic Arts
Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, 1978
movie vs comic book
Sam Raimi, 2022

Following the events of Spider-Man: No Way Home and the first season of Loki, Dr. Stephen Strange, with the help of both old and new mystical allies, travels into the multiverse to face a mysterious new adversary.


X-Men: The Last Stand. Poster of the 2006 movie and cover of the book novelization
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X-Men 3: The Last Stand
Chris Claremont, 2006
movie vs book   [NOVELIZATION]
Brett Ratner, 2006

In 1986, Professor Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr meet young Jean Grey at her parents’ house to invite her to join their school, the X-Mansion. In the present, Worthington Labs announces it has developed an inoculation to suppress the X-gene that gives mutants their abilities and offer the cure to any mutant who wants it.


Star Trek: Generations. Poster of the 1994 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Star Trek Generations
J.M. Dillard, 1994
movie vs book   [NOVELIZATION]
David Carson, 1994

In 2293, retired Starfleet officers James T. Kirk, Montgomery Scott, and Pavel Chekov attend the maiden voyage of the USS Enterprise-B. During the shakedown cruise, Enterprise is pressed into a rescue mission to save two El-Aurian refugee ships that have been snared by a massive energy ribbon.


Dune. Poster of the 1984 movie and cover of the 1965 book
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Dune
Frank Herbert, 1965
movie vs book
David Lynch, 1984

In the far future, the known universe is ruled by Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV. Meanwhile, on the industrial world of Giedi Prime, the sadistic Baron Vladimir Harkonnen tells his nephews Glossu The Beast Rabban and Feyd-Rautha about his plan to eliminate the Atreides by manipulating someone in House Atreides into betraying the Duke.