Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme where every Tuesday we look at a particular topic for discussion and use various (or more to the point ten) bookish examples to demonstrate that particular topic.  Top Ten Tuesday (created and hosted by  The Broke and Bookish) is now being hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl and future week’s topics can be found here.   This week’s topic:

Movies/TV Shows That Would Have Made Amazing Books

This topic took me a little while to get my head around – I’m so used to looking at it the other way round – books to movies – but, lets see what I can come up with.

Stranger Things – I love this TV series and seriously, I thought it must be an adaptation from the King of Horror himself – Stephen King.  But, it’s not, it was created for tv by Matt and Ross Duffer.

The Simpsons – always felt like it came straight from a comic book.  Is that just me?

Star Wars – created by George Lucas.  Difficult to believe that this isn’t an adaptation.

Interstellar – I love this film – I’ve watched it a number of times (in fact I don’t think I really understood it the first time I watched it) but it always impresses me.

Pan’s Labyrinth – I love this film and felt sure it must be adapted from a book, but it isn’t.  Guillermo del Toro wrote and produced this.

Labyrinthe – you have to love this film – and wouldn’t it have been a great book?

Buffy the Vampire Slayer – I had to include this one, I have two friends at least who would be fuming if I didn’t.  This would have been one of those great UF series with about 20 or more books in total.

I also had to include The Big Lebowski, from the Coen brothers – one of my husband’s favourite films and in fact our little lakeland terrier was named Dude – he even had a blond grisly beard.

That’s it for me.  I’m sure there are plenty more but these are the tv series and films that first came to mind.