Movies Adapted from Novels That Ended up Being Better Than the Book

Fight Club (1999)

The massive difference between Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club and David Fincher’s adaptation boils down to the ending: in the novel, the explosive malfunctions, but in the movie, several explosives successfully detonate, and The Narrator (Edward Norton) observes as skyscrapers crumble around him. Compared to the novel, the film is much more calumniatory of Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) and his rebellious agenda.

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