See below for a list
of movies that were adapted from a television drama.
| Dukes of Hazzard |
2005 |
Johnny Knoxville |
Seann William Scott |
| Starsky and Hutch |
2004 |
Ben Stiller |
Owen Wilson |
| Thunderbirds |
2004 |
Bill Paxton |
Brady Corbet |
| Charlies Angels: Full Throttle |
2003 |
Cameron Diaz |
Drew Barrymore |
| S.W.A.T. |
2003 |
Samuel L. Jackson |
Colin Farrell |
| The Lizzie McGuire Movie |
2003 |
Hilary Duff |
Adam Lamberg |
| The Singing Detective |
2003 |
Robin Wright Penn |
Robert Downey Jr. |
| I Spy |
2002 |
Eddie Murphy |
Owen Wilson |
| Charlies Angels |
2000 |
Cameron Diaz |
Drew Barrymore |
| Mission: Impossible 2 |
2000 |
Tom Cruise |
Dougray Scott |
| The Mod Squad |
1999 |
Giovanni Ribisi |
Claire Danes |
| Lost in Space |
1998 |
Lennie James |
William Hurt |
| Wild, Wild West |
1998 |
Will Smith |
Kevin Kline |
| Mission: Impossible |
1996 |
Tom Cruise |
Sam Douglas |
| Maverick |
1994 |
Jodie Foster |
Mel Gibson |
| The Fugitive |
1993 |
Harrison Ford |
Tommy Lee Jones |
| The X-Files |
1988 |
David Duchovny |
Gillian Anderson |
| Dragnet |
1987 |
Dan Aykroyd |
Tom Hanks |
| The Untouchables |
1987 |
Kevin Costner |
Sean Connery |
| Star Trek |
1980 |
William Shatner |
Leonard Nimov |
| McHale's Navy |
1964 |
Ernest Borgnine |
Tim Conway |
With the success of the Star Trek Series and The
Untouchables, Hollywood started to pump out television drama adaptations
with regularity in the late 90's and early 00's. The best of
these movie adaptations are
probably The Untouchables
(very good movie about Eliot Ness going after Al Capone), The Fugitive (thriller
with Harrison Ford), Mission: Impossible (good action movie from Tom Cruise, I really
liked this one, but many people didn't), and Charlies Angels. I'm
sure we can look for more of these types of movies to
come out over the years as Hollywood execs look for a built-in audience and
script writers get a case of writers block. The adaptations from dramas do
appear to have the best track record of any of the tv
genres.
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