When filmmakers made writers sulk

Books and movies might seem like a nice fit, but more often than not they're nasty bedfellows -- like Chetan Bhagat discovered with the debacle of Hello and the perplexing outcry over writing credits on 3 Idiots.

Writing a story for the page and the screen are different things, and while a great story can remain just that, things often change.

The first time a novel was adapted on screen was in 1924, as Erich von Stronheim took on Frank Norris's novel McTeague to make the film Greed. Greed ended up being sixteen hours long, and was then eventually edited into a two hour version -- which obviously didn't make sense.

Things have come a long way, and while we have had pristine adaptations like The Godfather, lets look at five films that made the authors wish they had refused the offers:

Image: A scene from 3 Idiots