From Page to Screen: The Best Books Made into Movies

From Cloud Atlas to The Help, check out our picks for the best tomes to get the big-screen treatment (34 Photos)

Nisha Gopalan on Oct 26, 2012 at 5:35PM

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From Page to Screen: The Best Books Made into Movies

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'Cloud Atlas' (2012)

Winner and nominee of multiple book awards, David Mitchell's 2004 bestseller, Cloud Atlas (in theaters on Oct. 26), is finally getting its time on the big screen. Andy and Lana Wachowski took the imaginative novel and successfully translated it to film, creating one of the most expensive independent movies of all time. The sci-fi blockbuster is being well-received and was even celebrated with a 10-minute standing ovation at the the 37th Toronto Film Festival. The biggest change from the book to the highly buzzed about movie is the way the story unfolds. The book consists of six separate storylines in a linear fashion -- one plot after the other. In the film, the stories blend together harmoniously to emphasize how one action can flow through to another time. Between the out-of-this-world production value and the star-studded cast -- including Tom Hanks, Halle Berry and Susan Sarandon -- it's no surprise that the movie is already getting some Oscar buzz!