Films From TV Shows, TV Shows From Films!
evawhite on June 5th, 2008
Sex and the City, the film, not the TV show is in the news these days, for having its world premiere on Monday, 12 may 2008. Have you noticed how TV show makers and Film makers tend to capitalize on each others’ successes? If ever a TV show got popular, a movie (or several if you count the sequels) promptly gets made based on that and if a film is a hit at the box office, someone will surely come along and cash in on the sensation created by it to produce a TV series based on the film!
Just off hand I can think of several cartoon or animation films that have been turned into long standing TV series: such as Alladin or the Lion King which got adapted for TV as Timon and Pumba and so on. Then Lizzie Mc Guire the series got made into Lizzie Mc Guire the film and so on. The rather bizarrely named TV show Spongebob Squarepants was made into The Spongebob Movie. The Simpsons TV series (which I admit to being a fan of) for made into The Simpsons Movie (which alas I have not yet seen). Then or course there are all the superhero films/TV shows: Superman, Batman, Spiderman; and I hardly know what came first, the chicken or the egg the movie or the series!
Charlies’ Angels, the long running and hugely successful TV series of yesteryears, got made into tremendously popular films wherein the angels are shown as the more modern and up to date and sexed up versions of the TV series.
The Planet of the Apes was another film that got made into a TV series, or was it the other way around, I can’t really tell because I am a fan of neither, though Planet of the Apes seems to have a cult following! Examples of these remakes or adaptations for the big or small screen as the case may be, seem to abound!
There is also the trend of making movies from comic strips, such as the Garfield movies and the movie about Felix the Cat. I was particularly glad of this trend when the comics of Asterix, my fave comic hero of all time were made into movies. I am a particular fan of the adorable Obelix with more brawn than brain.
Oh! And then there is the trend of making movies out of Video games and video games out of movies! A bunch of computer games were made from the Lord of the Rings Trilogy and so many, many others!
