The adaptation graph

What the screen kept. What it changed.

TrueToPage scores adaptations for fidelity, not quality. Six axes, a mapping table from every source unit to the screen, and a change log you can argue with row by row.

Title pages

One page per adaptation edge. Cuts and editions live on the same page.

Novel series 1996–present → TV series 2011–2019 · Direct adaptationA Song of Ice and Fire to Game of ThronesEight seasons that begin as a season-per-book adaptation and end, once the published books run out, as a screen-only ending built from the author's outline.59whole run · editorial

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Same title, mixed machine Manga 2009–2021 → Anime 2013–2023 · Direct adaptationAttack on TitanTwo studios, one nine-arc spine kept almost intact; the finale's extra runtime goes to an epilogue the manga only implies.87composite · editorial

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Same spine and people Novel 2002 → Film 2009 · Direct adaptationCoralineThe film keeps 21 of the novella's 23 mapped beats, including the button-eyed Other Mother, her offer to sew buttons over Coraline's eyes, and the three ghost children whose souls she holds. It moves the setting to an apartment house in Oregon and adds Wybie Lovat, a real-world friend the novel does not have.84composite · editorial

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Same spine and people Novel 1965 → Film 2021 · Direct adaptationDunePart One keeps 19 of the novel's 27 mapped units and stops at the Jamis duel, a chapter break roughly halfway through Book Two. It omits the Arrakeen banquet, Thufir Hawat's captivity arc, and Feyd-Rautha, recasts Liet-Kynes as a woman, and leaves the rest of the novel to Part Two.67composite · editorial

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Same title, mixed machine Novel 1970 → Film 2009 · Direct adaptationFantastic Mr Fox to Fantastic Mr. FoxThe film keeps 14 of the novel's 18 chapters, among them the three farmers, the siege, the tunnel raids, and Bean's cider cellar, and adds ten invented arcs around them, including a newspaper job, a cousin rivalry, and a supermarket ending.74composite · editorial

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Same title, mixed machine Novel 1996 → Film 1999 · Direct adaptationFight ClubDavid Fincher and screenwriter Jim Uhls keep Chuck Palahniuk's plot mechanism, narrative voice, and unflinching content nearly intact. Their one invention is in the rewritten ending: the buildings collapse as planned while the narrator watches, holding Marla's hand, replacing the novel's asylum ending.88composite · editorial

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Same spine and people Manga 2001–2010 → Anime 2009–2010 · Direct adaptationFullmetal Alchemist to Fullmetal Alchemist: BrotherhoodBones opens the broadcast with one invented episode, omits three of the manga's 27 source units, and adapts the other 24 through to Arakawa's own ending.93composite · editorial

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Almost the same facts Novel 2012 → Film 2014 · Direct adaptationGone GirlGillian Flynn adapts her own dueling-narrator marriage thriller into a single continuous film, keeping the mechanism and the ending while trading two unreliable first-person voices for behavior on screen.71composite · editorial

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Same title, mixed machine Novel 1990 → TV series 2019-2026 · Direct adaptationGood Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch to Good OmensSeason 1 adapts Pratchett and Gaiman's 1990 novel across six episodes, keeping or condensing 32 of the 34 scored source beats, and closes on an invented trial. Season 2 and the single Season 3 special, seven of the show's thirteen episodes, tell a story no published text covers.82whole run · editorial

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Same spine and people Novel 1985 → TV series 2017–2025 · Direct adaptationThe Handmaid's TaleSeason 1 adapts Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel across ten episodes and ends on the novel's own last image, the narrator led into a black van. Seasons 2 through 6, 56 of the show's 66 episodes, carry June Osborne past that point through a war, an escape and the liberation of a city, none of which any published Atwood text describes.63whole run · editorial

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Same title, mixed machine Novel 1954–1955 → Film 2001–2003 · Direct adaptationThe Lord of the RingsPeter Jackson's trilogy keeps the six-Book spine nearly whole while quietly rerouting its people: Arwen absorbs Glorfindel's rescue, Faramir is tempted where the book insists he would not be, and two entire chapters, Tom Bombadil and the Scouring of the Shire, never reach any cut.82composite · editorial

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Same spine and people Novel 2005 → Film 2007 · Direct adaptationNo Country for Old MenJoel and Ethan Coen's film keeps 22 of the novel's 24 mapped beats, moves Sheriff Bell's italicized monologues into dialogue, and replaces the hitchhiker subplot and Carla Jean's coin call with a motel-pool encounter for Moss and a refusal for Carla Jean.82composite · editorial

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Same spine and people Graphic novel 2000–2003 → Film 2007 · Direct adaptationPersepolisMarjane Satrapi co-directs the animated adaptation of her own memoir. Of the book's 38 chapters, 29 reach the screen, including Uncle Anoosh's execution and Marjane's homelessness in Vienna. The maid Mehri's storyline is cut, and the film is framed as a single day's flashback at Orly Airport.82composite · editorial

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Same spine and people Novel 1983 → TV series 2020 · Direct adaptationThe Queen's GambitScott Frank's seven-episode miniseries keeps 31 of the novel's 34 mapped beats in place, condenses two and drops one, and adds seven invented beats, among them a mathematician backstory and a deliberate crash for Beth's mother, a reveal of D.L. Townes's sexuality and a later reunion, and Jolene funding the trip to Moscow.78composite · editorial

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Same spine and people Comic series 1989-1996 → TV series 2022-2025 · Direct adaptationThe SandmanSeason 1 adapts Preludes & Nocturnes and The Doll's House issue by issue, plus two of Dream Country's four stories. Season 2 draws on four non-contiguous volumes, skips A Game of You and most of Fables & Reflections, and ends with Dream's death and Daniel's succession as the comics do.80whole run · editorial

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Same spine and people Graphic novel 2004–2010 → Film 2010 · Direct adaptationScott Pilgrim to Scott Pilgrim vs. the WorldEdgar Wright's film condenses six graphic novels into 112 minutes, keeps all seven evil exes and 19 of 28 mapped source units, and reaches the same Scott-and-Ramona reunion as the then-unfinished sixth volume through a climax reshot about three months before release.74composite · editorial

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Same title, mixed machine Comic series 1991-2000 → Film 2005 · CompositeFrank Miller's Sin City to Sin CityThree linked yarns and a bookend short story, shot from Miller's own pages by a co-director who used them as storyboards.83composite · editorial

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Same spine and people Novel series 2010–2025 → TV series 2022–present · Direct adaptationSlow Horses (Slough House novels) to Slow HorsesApple TV+ adapts one Mick Herron novel per season through Season 5, covering five of the nine published books. The Hassan Ahmed kidnapping and its false-flag reveal, Min Harper's disguised murder, and Dennis Gimball's death by falling paint bucket all carry over close to the page. Diana Taverner's ambition and MI5's internal politics sit further forward on screen than in the novels.89whole run · editorial

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Same spine and people Novel 1998 → Film 2016 · Direct adaptationStory of Your Life to ArrivalEric Heisserer and Denis Villeneuve keep Ted Chiang's central conceit, a linguist who learns to live time non-sequentially, and wrap it in an invented geopolitical thriller the calm, physics-literate novella never has.61composite · editorial

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Same title, mixed machine Comic series 2006–2012 → TV series 2019–2026 · Direct adaptationThe BoysThe recruitment premise, the ensemble, and the satirical target carry across. Four of the twelve source units reach the screen in some form; the other eight are replaced with original story across forty episodes.48whole run · editorial

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A different work using the names Novel 1969 → Film 1972 · Direct adaptationThe GodfatherThe film keeps 18 of the novel's 25 source units, drops Vito's Sicilian origin, the Lucy Mancini subplot, and Kay's conversion, reduces Johnny Fontane's Hollywood arc to one favor and its payoff, and ends on a closed door instead of Kay's closing prayer.76composite · editorial

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Same spine and people Novel 2011 (self-published serial/ebook); 2014 (Crown Publishing Group print edition) → Film 2015 · Direct adaptationThe MartianGoddard and Scott keep the science-first optimism and nearly every setback, cut the book's late solo ordeal, and invent an Earth epilogue the novel never wrote.83composite · editorial

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Same spine and people Novel 1977 → Film 1980 · Direct adaptationThe ShiningThe hotel, the family, and the ghosts carry over. The boiler that destroys the Overlook does not, and neither does the rescuer who drives the family out.66composite · editorial

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Same title, mixed machine Graphic novel 1986–1987 → Film 2009 · Direct adaptationWatchmenThe twelve-issue spine survives almost intact; the machine that ends it is swapped from a squid to Doctor Manhattan.67composite · editorial

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How to read a page

Six axes, then a composite

Plot structure, character, dialogue and voice, theme and tone, coverage, and additions restraint. Each is 0 to 100, higher meaning more of the source is still true. The composite is the plain mean, printed with its method. A low number is not a bad adaptation.

The mapping table

Every issue, chapter, or arc of the source, and where it lands on screen. Omitted units stay in the table. This is the evidence.

The change log

What was cut, condensed, invented, merged, or kept when a softer adaptation would have flinched. Each row says why it matters and who decided, when that is sourced. This is the argument.

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