Read-a-Thon #1 - Name that Film

[Bryony]

Are you looking forward to any book-to-film adaptations this year? There’s A Wrinkle in Time, Where’d you go Bernadette, and Ready Player One to name just a few.

Now, many film adaptations of books keep the original title, but some use a new title which might seem completely unrelated to the book.

In this game you have a list of ten books that have been made into films. Your task is to name the film adaptation.

Please use spoiler tags when posting your answers.

Warning: the GR summary for some of these books tells you the name of the film so beware of spoilers if you click on the links.

1. Nothing Lasts Forever
2. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
3. The Sheep Pig
4. All You Need Is Kill
5. The Short-Timers
6. Shoeless Joe
7. The Greatest Gift
8. Flowers for Algernon
9. The Incredible Journey
10. Queen Bees and Wannabes

Have fun!

Update - if you didn’t guess them all then click below to see the answers

(view spoiler)[1. Die Hard
2. Blade Runner
3. Babe
4. Edge of Tomorrow
5. Full Metal Jacket
6. Field of Dreams
7. It’s a Wonderful Life
8. Charly
9. Homeward Bound
10. Mean Girls
(hide spoiler)]

[Silvia]

(view spoiler)[
1. The spoiler is the first line of the description of the book! Die Hard
2. I guessed with the description of the book, but then I saw the name of the series... spoiler again! Blade Runner
3. I guessed this one just with name of the book :) and I confirmed with the description: Babe
4. The only one I don't need a description to know the movie: Edge of Tomorrow
5. No idea.
6. "If you build it, he will come". I don't need more description than that one: Field of Dreams.
7. Spoilers in the description again: A Wonderful Life.
8. I read the book, but pretty sure I have not seen the movie, so No Idea.
9. No idea
10. No idea.
(hide spoiler)]

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

I'm really bad at movies (I tend to sleep through all of them....) but I'm also wanting to check this box on my ATYGo 😂

I only know a couple, so here they are:
(view spoiler)[Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep = Blade Runner
The Incredible Journey = Homeward Bound (Ok, I didn't know this one off the top of my head... but as soon as I saw the cover of the book, I guessed it right away!)
Queen Bees and Wannabes = Mean Girls! (hide spoiler)]

[Chinook]

I’m pretty bad with movies. (view spoiler)[

1. Nothing Lasts Forever
2. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Bladerunner
3. The Sheep Pig - Babe
4. All You Need Is Kill
5. The Short-Timers
6. Shoeless Joe - Field of Dreams
7. The Greatest Gift
8. Flowers for Algernon
9. The Incredible Journey
10. Queen Bees and Wannabes - Mean Girls (hide spoiler)]

[Kathy]

I only know a couple.

(view spoiler)[
1.
2.
3. Babe
4.
5.
6.
7.
8. Charlie
9.
10.
(hide spoiler)]

[Rachel]

Does it still count as completing the game if you don't know most of the answers? Lol!

(view spoiler)[
1. Had no idea, so I decided to look at the synopsis to see if I could guess. Unfortunately, it gave away that it was Die Hard
2. No idea
3. Babe
4. No idea
5. Looking at the synopsis for a hint gave this one away too. Apparently it's Full Metal Jacket
6. I'm not interested in sports, so no idea
7. No clue
8. I'm pretty sure the movie version was called Charly
9. Homeward Bound
10. Mean Girls
(hide spoiler)]

[Samantha]

Marked the ones I accidentally spoiled myself on with a *

1. Nothing Lasts Forever *
(view spoiler)[ Die Hard (hide spoiler)]

2. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
(view spoiler)[ Blade Runner (hide spoiler)]

3. The Sheep Pig *
(view spoiler)[ Babe (hide spoiler)]

4. All You Need Is Kill
(view spoiler)[ Edge of Tomorrow (hide spoiler)]

5. The Short-Timers *
(view spoiler)[ Full Metal Jacket (hide spoiler)]

6. Shoeless Joe
(view spoiler)[ Field of Dreams (hide spoiler)]

7. The Greatest Gift
(view spoiler)[ It's a Wonderful Life (hide spoiler)]

8. Flowers for Algernon
Nope, not a clue

9. The Incredible Journey
(view spoiler)[Homeward Bound (hide spoiler)]

10. Queen Bees and Wannabes
(view spoiler)[ Mean Girls (hide spoiler)]

[Sabrina]

(view spoiler)[
1. die hard
2. blade runner
3. babe
4. no clue
5. full metal jacket
6. no clue
7. its a wonderful life
8-9. no clue
10. mean girls (hide spoiler)]

[Joan]

(view spoiler)[ 6. 42
9.Homeward bound (hide spoiler)]

I honestly had no clue on most of them. I'm not even sure the ones I put were right.

[Marina]

I don't even know most of the books so I only know one and can guess another

(view spoiler)[
2. Blade runner
3. Babe (hide spoiler)]

[Erica]

Wow, these are hard. I got most of them after looking at the synopsis (although some were, like you said, given away), but I could only get 2 based on the name alone! I marked those 2 with stars.

(view spoiler)[
1. Nothing Lasts Forever
Die Hard (I peeked at the book's page)

*2. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Blade Runner (the only one I knew right away!)

3. The Sheep Pig
Babe (but I looked at the book's page to check...)

4. All You Need Is Kill
No Idea

5. The Short-Timers
Full Metal Jacket (I peeked at the book's page)

6. Shoeless Joe
Field of Dreams (I peeked at the book's page)

7. The Greatest Gift
It's a Wonderful Life (I peeked at the book's page)

8. Flowers for Algernon
Still have no idea

9. The Incredible Journey
Homeward Bound?

*10. Queen Bees and Wannabes
Mean Girls! (The other one I got without peeking, although it took some time)

(hide spoiler)]

[Zaz]

Not playing because I only know movie titles in translation, so it's complicated to know when they are based on a book. It was fun to check everybody's answers :p

[Jody]

I only know the movie for The Sheep Pig. (view spoiler)[Babe. (hide spoiler)] Fail. 😂

I think I might know the one for Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (view spoiler)[Blade Runner?? (hide spoiler)] (sheep theme going on here) but I'm not certain. I don't even know the rest of the books, apart from Flowers for Algernon. Epic fail.

[Sarah]

I got 3 out the 10, which is much better than I thought I would do!

6. Shoeless Joe
(view spoiler)[Field of Dreams (hide spoiler)]
9. The Incredible Journey
(view spoiler)[Homeward Bound (hide spoiler)]
10. Queen Bees and Wannabes
(view spoiler)[Mean Girls (hide spoiler)]

[Hilde]

This was hard, think I got four of them;

(view spoiler)[1. Die Hard
2. Blade Runner
3. Babe
4. Never heard of the book (and probably not the movie either)
5. Same as for #4
6. Nope, haven’t heard of this book either
7. Nor this..
8. This I know; Charly
9. Yeah, don’t know
10. Don’t know this book either (hide spoiler)]

[Amanda]

I managed to get 5 of them on my own. Three others were spoiled when I tried look at the summaries.

(view spoiler)[1. Die Hard (spoiled)
2. I, Robot
3. Babe
4. ????
5. Full Metal Jacket (spoiled)
6. Field of Dreams
7. It's a Wonderful Life (spoiled)
8. ????
9. Homeward Bound
10. Mean Girls (hide spoiler)]

[Jacqueline]

Ok....I have no idea how to do the spoiler thing so I'll just say that I know all of them except Flowers for Algenon....time for Mr Google methinks.

[Bryony]

Thanks everyone for playing. :-)

The answers have now been added (behind a spoiler tag) to the first post so you can check any you didn’t know.

Jacqueline, this is how to use spoiler tags, you just need to delete the * before posting.

<*spoiler>Text you want to hide goes here<*/spoiler>