Board 8 > What's the longest book successfully adapted into one film?

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Lightning Strikes
09/28/19 4:08:08 PM
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I was listening to the Empire podcast and this came up regarding the failure of The Goldfinch, a disastrous adaptation of an acclaimed and very long book. Most good adaptations of doorstoppers split them into parts (LotR, Deathly Hallows, It). So what is the longest book to have made a good single film?

The Godfather is over 600 pages but parts of that did go into Part II so maybe that doesn't count.
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Calintares
09/28/19 4:09:14 PM
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how long is Gone With the Wind?
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Great_Paul
09/28/19 4:09:26 PM
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Does the original It count?
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Menji
09/28/19 4:09:32 PM
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Gone With the Wind? 1000+ pages

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NFUN
09/28/19 4:10:50 PM
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deathly hallows isn't even the longest harry potter book and it definitely didn't need two parts
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Lightning Strikes
09/28/19 4:14:15 PM
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Gone with the Wind is a good shout! Of course that is a 4 hour film so it would absolutely be two films these days.

NFUN posted...
deathly hallows isn't even the longest harry potter book and it definitely didn't need two parts


Fair point, somehow I forgot Order of the Phoenix. However that ended up generally seen (mileage varies of course) as one of the weakest HP films.
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Calintares
09/28/19 4:16:58 PM
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Lightning Strikes posted...
Gone with the Wind is a good shout! Of course that is a 4 hour film so it would absolutely be two films these days.


it kind of is. it even has an intermission, and the parts before and after are very different, to the point of being different movies.
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Ashethan
09/28/19 5:02:57 PM
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Probably Les Miserables.
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