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

Blade Runner (1982)

Loosely adapted from Philip K. Dick’s 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Blade Runner has become a sci-fi classic of its own. The films works more effectively as a grim foresight of humanity’s hopeless future, driven by the lack of clarity surrounding whether or not Harrison Ford’s character is a replicant.

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