Few things can provide such a solid base and inspiration for movies as books. Novels from all time periods and corners of the world have been movie material since the early days of cinema, with some of the greatest and most memorable adaptations being 2006 period romance Pride and Prejudice, Hitchcock’s 1980 adaptation of psychological thriller The Shining, Kubrick’s take of A Clockwork Orange, and early 2000s’ recreation of Tolkien’s classic Lord of the Rings.