11 Situations in which the creators of films and series were not based on books

Film production companies are always looking for inspiration to create stories that captivate us and make us fill the exhibition halls. Directors and screenwriters find in books and comics an inexhaustible source of ideas. However, some poetic licenses are sometimes taken to make the characters more attractive, or to adapt them to the physiognomy of an actor or actress.

We, from awesome.club, we compiled a list of ten occasions when the character seen on screen was nothing like the description given by the author or author of the book. Check out!

The Dursley family is very well represented, according to author JK Rowling’s account. However, Petunia (the mother) and Dudley Dursley are supposed to have blonde hair. In the movie, they are dark.

Sirius Black was very handsome when he was young, but being trapped in Azkaban for so many years had turned him into a walking corpse. While in the film his appearance is not quite as frightening, in the book he is described as having sunken eyes, very thin, and yellow teeth. At first, Harry is afraid just looking at him.

According to the book, Prim was blonde and blue-eyed, something that set her apart from those who lived with her in her hometown. Also, she was very thin, frail, and almost girl-like. In the film, she is portrayed with brown eyes and a little older.

The character Eric, according to the book, was full of piercings, had black, long and greasy hair. The coldness in his eyes could be felt throughout the room. In the film, he looks nothing like the literary character.

CS Lewis described the White Witch, played on screen by Tilda Swinton, as “a woman taller than any Edmund ever saw. Her face was white, not pale, but white like paper or sugar, except her mouth was very red. It was a pretty face, but proud, cold and stern.”

In the film version, the White Witch lacked those characteristics that identified her as the ice queen. They didn’t want her to be so pretty, because she was the bad guy in the story.

Children are the main characters of The Chronicles of Narnia and they were never described in detail in the book, as the author wanted all readers to identify with them. However, when Lucy grows up, in another book of the saga, she is described as “always cheerful and golden-haired, and all the princes of that region wanted her as their queen”.

In the film, she is strong, brave and very beautiful, but with brown hair.

Damon’s eye color was one of the first things fans of the books noticed about the TV version. In the book, Damon has “eyes as black as midnight”, while on screen, the character played by Ian Somerhalder has them very green.

Mary Shelley described the creature that Dr. Frankenstein had just brought it to life like this: “His yellow skin barely covered the muscles and arteries; her hair was a glossy, flowing black…but these luxuriances only contrasted most horribly with her watery eyes, which looked almost the same color as her brownish-white sockets, her complexion was wrinkled, and her lips black.

Compared to the 2014 version that appeared in Frankenstein: Between Angels and Demons, it’s nothing like that.

As Bram Stoker describes Dracula as having these physical characteristics: “His face was strong, very strong, long, with a thin nose and peculiarly arched nostrils; a high, domed forehead, the hair growing sparsely around the temples, but profusely everywhere. His eyebrows were very thick, almost meeting over his nose, and he had thick hair that seemed to curl in its own profusion. His mouth, as far as could be seen under the bushy moustache, was set, rather cruel looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth.”

In the 2014 film, played by Luke Evans, the character’s mustache and eyebrows were omitted.

Ian Fleming wrote in 1953 a description of James Bond that has nothing to do with what we saw in Daniel Craig’s films: “His blue-gray eyes… a short lock of black hair that would never stay in place, slowly faded away. to form a thick comma over your right eyebrow. With the thin vertical scar running down the right cheek, the overall effect was slightly pirate-like.”

Black hair and a scar are not the traits we’ve seen Agent 007 with, but we’d like to see in the future.

In books written by Suzanne Collins, Katniss is described as having “gray eyes, straight black hair, and olive skin”, a common image of the poorest district of the fictional country of Panem.
In the film, the character played by Jennifer Lawrence differs greatly from the literary description.

What other books do you know whose adaptation is very different from the original description? Tell us in the comments!