The Dark Knight Rises. Poster of the 2012 movie and cover of the book novelization
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The Dark Knight Rises
Greg Cox, 2012
movie vs book   [NOVELIZATION]
Christopher Nolan, 2012

Bane, a masked terrorist and former member of the League of Shadows, abducts nuclear physicist Dr. Leonid Pavel from a CIA aircraft over Uzbekistan before crashing the aircraft. Bane sets up his base in the city sewers, and prompts Wayne’s corporate rival John Daggett to buy Wayne’s fingerprints.


The Dark Knight Rises. Poster of the 2012 movie and cover of the 1940 comic book, Batman
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Batman
Bob Kane, Bill Finger, 1940
movie vs comic book
Christopher Nolan, 2012

Bane, a masked terrorist and former member of the League of Shadows, abducts nuclear physicist Dr. Leonid Pavel from a CIA aircraft over Uzbekistan before crashing the aircraft. Bruce Wayne has become a recluse, and Wayne Enterprises is losing money after Wayne discontinued his fusion reactor project when he learned that it could be weaponized.


The Revenant. Poster of the 2015 movie and cover of the 2002 book
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The Revenant
Michael Punke, 2002
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Alejandro G. Iñárritu, 2015

In late 1823, Hugh Glass guides Captain Andrew Henry’s trappers through the territory of the present-day Dakotas. Guided by Glass, the survivors travel on foot to Fort Kiowa, because he believes that traveling downriver will make them vulnerable.


The Bikeriders. Poster of the 2023 movie and cover of the 1997 book
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The Bikeriders
Danny Lyon, 1997
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Jeff Nichols, 2023

Kathy, a determined member of the Vandals, is married to Benny, a daring biker. She reflects on the Vandals’ transformation over ten years, starting as a local group bonded by fun, roaring bikes, and admiration for their steadfast leader Johnny. With the Vandals turning more perilous, evolving from a club to a potentially menacing gang, Kathy, Benny, and Johnny face decisions about their allegiance to the club and to one another.


Oliver Twist. Poster of the 2007 TV series and cover of the 1838 book
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Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens, 1838
TV series vs book
Coky Giedroyc, 2007-2008

A young woman in labour makes her way to a parish workhouse and dies after giving birth to a boy, who is systematically named Oliver Twist by the workhouse authorities. As the years go by, Oliver and the rest of the child inmates suffer from the callous indifference of the officials in charge: beadle Mr. Bumble and matron Mrs. Corney.


Lawless. Poster of the 2012 movie and cover of the 2008 book, The Wettest County in the World
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The Wettest County in the World
Matt Bondurant, 2008
movie vs book
John Hillcoat, 2012

In 1931, the Bondurant brothers—middle brother Forrest, eldest brother Howard, and youngest brother Jack—are running a successful moonshine business in Franklin County, Virginia. The brothers use their gas station and restaurant as a front for their illegal manufacturing business with the assistance of Jack’s disabled friend and engineer, Cricket.


Layer Cake. Poster of the 2004 movie and cover of the 2000 book
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Layer Cake
J.J. Connolly, 2000
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Matthew Vaughn, 2004

A London cocaine distributor operates with the care and professionalism of a legitimate businessman. His chief associates are Morty and Gene, his liaisons to mob boss Jimmy Price. Just as he is ready to retire from criminal life, Jimmy demands of him two tasks. The first is to track down Charlie, an associate’s drug-addicted runaway daughter. The second is to oversee the purchase of one million ecstasy tablets from low-level gangster ‘the Duke’.


Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Poster of the 2011 movie and cover of the 1974 book, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
John le Carré, 1974
movie vs book
Tomas Alfredson, 2011

In 1973, Control, head of British intelligence (The Circus), sends agent Jim Prideaux to Budapest to meet a prospective defector, a Hungarian Army general who has the name of a mole at the top of British Intelligence. Alleline and Bland request budget approval from civil servant Oliver Lacon for Operation Witchcraft, including a safe house for their high-level Soviet source.


The Drop. Poster of the 2014 movie and cover of the book novelization
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The Drop
Dennis Lehane, 2014
movie vs book   [NOVELIZATION]
Michaël R. Roskam, 2014

Bobby Saginowsky (Tom Hardy) is a bartender at a neighborhood bar in Brooklyn. Marv ridicules Bobby and some patrons for commemorating the 10th anniversary of the murder of a man named Richie Whelan. While rescuing it, he meets Nadia (Noomi Rapace), a resident of the house.


Legend. Poster of the 2015 movie and cover of the 1972 book, The Profession of Violence
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The Profession of Violence
John George Pearson, 1972
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Brian Helgeland, 2015

In the 1960s, Reggie Kray is a former boxer who has become an important part of the criminal underground in London. Reggie and his unstable twin brother Ronnie start to leave their mark on the London underworld in the 1960s. Using violence to get what they want, the siblings orchestrate robberies and murders while running nightclubs and protection rackets.


Venom. Poster of the 2018 movie and cover of the 2012 comic book
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Venom
Todd McFarlane, David Michelinie, 2012
movie vs comic book
Ruben Fleischer, 2018

While exploring space for new habitable worlds, a probe belonging to the bio-engineering corporation Life Foundation discovers a comet covered in symbiotic lifeforms. The Life Foundation recovers the other three and transports them to their research facility in San Francisco, where they discover that the symbiotes cannot survive without oxygen-breathing hosts, which often fatally reject the symbiosis.


Child 44. Poster of the 2015 movie and cover of the 2008 book
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Child 44
Tom Rob Smith, 2008
movie vs book
Daniel Espinosa, 2015

In 1933, a child orphaned during the Ukrainian Holodomor runs away from his orphanage and is taken in by a Red Army unit and adopted by its kindly commander, who gives him the name Leo Demidov. In 1953, Leo, now married to Raisa and living in Moscow, is a captain in the Ministry of State Security (MGB), commanding a unit tasked with tracking down and arresting dissidents.