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Why did they avoid Charlie's name in the film title Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory?
What was the reason for the shift from Charlie to Willy Wonka in the film title?
NAACP (The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, a civil rights organization in the United ...
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Has a movie based on a novel ever had its own new novelisation?
Yes
I think the answer to this is probably many
After a short think, the first example I was able to find was:
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, by Philip K. Dick was adapted as
Blade Runner, ...
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Clearing the Shire of Orcs and Goblins
The movies as a whole primarily tell the story of the destruction of the ring. So when the ring is destroyed, that is the climax of the movie, and movies almost always end shortly after the climax.
I ...
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Is the title of The Man With the Golden Gun deliberately deceptive, or is something missing from the adaptation?
I don't believe there was any intended deception.
The films were adapted from two separate novels with those respective titles, which had two distinct villains. For Goldfinger, they chose to simplify ...
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Why wasn't the poltergeist Peeves in the Harry Potter movies?
They filmed some scenes with Peeves in the first film, but he was cut before the film was released. The character wasn’t revived for the later films.
I found a few interviews that touch on the topic ...
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Has a movie based on a novel ever had its own new novelisation?
Yes
Planet Of The Apes (1968) was based on French author Pierre Boulle's 1963 novel La Planète des Singes. After becoming a movie and additional sequels, it was further developed into cartoons, TV ...
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Why did they avoid Charlie's name in the film title Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory?
But what was the reason for the shift from Charlie to Willy Wonka in the film title?
From the Dutch wikipedia about that movie:
De titel van het verhaal werd echter aangepast naar Willy Wonka ...
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Why is the dialogue in Game of Thrones more "modern"?
No-one knew whether viewers would accept a "serious drama" about power politics with a fantasy setting. This article shows how much of the early criticism and rejection of the show (...
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Did The Big Short movie change names or conflate characters?
There are definitely some name changes that take place.
Greg Lippmann became Jared Vennett (played by Ryan Gosling).
Steve Eisman became Mark Baum (played by Steve Carrell).
Ben Hockett became Ben ...
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Why did Filius Flitwick's appearance change after first two Harry Potter movies?
As explained to Movie Pilot by Warwick Davis himself,
When it came to the third film, of course the looks of the whole films had changed.
Alfonso really wanted to put his mark on the films. And then ...
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Why "Jack Ryan"...when it isn't?
Probably the most important element of Jack Ryan's personality is that he's just an analyst in the CIA, yet he repeatedly gets drawn into dangerous situations where he's forced to act as an operative. ...
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Has a movie based on a novel ever had its own new novelisation?
If you consider a graphic novel to be a novel, then the graphic novel V for Vendetta (written by Alan Moore and illustrated by David Lloyd) was adapted as a film (directed by James McTeigue and ...
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What has changed in Season 5 of Game of Thrones compared to the books?
I feel like this question would benefit from a spoiler-free overview, by character. The final section details which book characters don't appear in the TV show and visa versa, so stop reading before ...
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How is the Wachowskis' interpretation not up to the mark according to Alan Moore?
The main political theme of the V for Vendetta comic was anarchy vs. fascism. But the movie didn't turn out that way.
Alan Moore himself said:
[The movie] has been "turned into a Bush-era ...
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From which book is the backstory of Yennefer taken?
Yennefer's backstory is aluded to in The Tower of Swallows:
Janka! Dear Janka!
Take this hunchbacked monstrosity from me! I don’t want to look at it!
She’s your daughter as much as she ...
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What will happen when the TV series catches up with the books?
From io9.com/
Not to worry though, in the event that they do catch up, the show's
creators are prepared. Benioff reveals, "Last year we went out to
Santa Fe for a week to sit down with him [...
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Why was 'The Hobbit' split into three films?
Going back into the production history, as far back as 2006, MGM and Jackson wanted to make it a three part franchise in some way. According to Wikipedia:
The project had been envisaged as two ...
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Is the title of The Man With the Golden Gun deliberately deceptive, or is something missing from the adaptation?
The title is a deliberate riff on The Man With The Golden Arm . I don't think there was ever any intent to tie it back to Auric G, but rather to create an "in-joke" in the title. Fleming ...
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Was there any further relevance to the triceratops' disease?
This was explained in the novel and was planned to be explained in the film, but the scene was cut for time. Here's a summary from /Film Trivia: Why Was the Triceratops Sick in ‘Jurassic Park’?
In ...
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Is Eurus mentioned in books?
In the original books, no, a sister is never mentioned. However, in a very roundabout way, the seeds of her origin are contained within the books.
The only sibling mentioned in Doyle's books is Holmes'...
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Why are two such similar movies being made at the same time?
Sometimes, people have the same idea at the same time. A few notable times this has happened:
Tombstone and Wyatt Earp
Antz and A Bugs Life
Mission To Mars and Red Planet
The Abyss and Deep Star Six ...
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Is Game of Thrones the first book adaptation which has overtaken the book it's adapting?
That's probably happenned a lot before but the only example I can think of is The 100
Here's the wikipedia page for The 100 books trilogy
You can see that by the end of book 3:
While in the TV ...
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Why is Snape's Potion/logic puzzle not in the movie?
I would wager that it was a combination of factors.
Money/time constraints - the budget on a movie that already has a lot of special fx does not stretch endlessly. Plus, the scene would take some ...
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Is Miss Moneypenny's character altered in the movies?
She's very altered in the films.
Miss Moneypenny, in the books, is the private secretary to M. She is completely dedicated to her work although she tends to mildly flirt with James Bond. She appears ...
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Why are two such similar movies being made at the same time?
This is a case of what is known as "Twin Films". I'm not sure who coined the phrase exactly but there is a Wikipedia article which details some of the reasons that twin films are made and ...
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Why is the TV Daario Naharis much less flamboyant?
A big part of Daario's story is that Dany is very attracted to him. In the books, she is a 14 year old girl who finds his flamboyant style different, mysterious, and intriguing.
It's easy to convey ...
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Is there a reason behind the 'Ending' joke?
The joke is about Stephen King himself, he receives a lot of criticism for his weak book endings, here's one example:
You can find a lot of discussions on this topic ...
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How many seasons of Game of Thrones will there be by the time it finishes?
As to Wikipedia, it is planned to last about 8 seasons and it's unlikely that it will stretch to much more than that.
Showrunners David Benioff and D. B. Weiss [...] envision the series to have a ...
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