Top 10 Worst Book-to-Film Adaptations
Hearing that your favorite book is being turned into a movie can either be the best news in the world, or the worst. More often than not, it’s the latter. Welcome to TopX-Top 10 Countdown Channel, and today we’re counting down our picks for the top 10 worst book to film adaptations.

For this list, we’ve focused on critically acclaimed or fan favorite books that were adapted to the screen in order to capitalize on their success, but which resulted in disappointing or flat-out bad movies. We’ve excluded Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight” and similar entries that we didn’t actually expect to be any good.

#10: “Gulliver’s Travels” (2010)

#9: “The Time Traveler’s Wife” (2009)

#8: “Captain Corelli’s Mandolin” (2001)

#7: “The Bonfire of the Vanities” (1990)

#6: “The Scarlet Letter” (1995)

#5: “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” (2003)

#4: “Eragon” (2006)

#3: “The Cat in the Hat” (2003)

#2: “The Golden Compass” (2007)

Before we uncover our number one pick, here are a few honorable mentions:
- “The Da Vinci Code” (2006)
- “All the King’s Men” (2006)
- “The Lovely Bones” (2009)
- “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” (2005)
- “Congo” (1995)

#1: “Dune” (1984)

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