Were the films Meet the Robinsons and Blackbeard's Ghost both based on novels?
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Meet the Robinsons Meet the Robinsons is a 2007 American computer-animated science fiction comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures on March 30, 2007. The 47th Disney animated feature film, it was released in standard and Disney Digital 3-D versions. The film is loosely based on characters from the children's book "A Day with Wilbur Robinson", by William Joyce. The voice cast includes Jordan Fry, Wesley Singerman, Harland Williams, Tom Kenny, Steve Anderson, Laurie Metcalf, Adam West, Tom Selleck, and Angela Bassett. It was the first film released after John Lasseter became chief creative officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios.
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Blackbeard's Ghost Blackbeard's Ghost is a 1968 American fantasy comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions, starring Peter Ustinov, Dean Jones, Suzanne Pleshette and directed by Robert Stevenson. It is based upon the novel of the same name by Ben Stahl and was shot at the Walt Disney Studios. The Disney Channel aired this film until the late 1990s .
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Henry Morton Robinson Henry Morton Robinson (September 7, 1898 – January 13, 1961) was an American novelist, best known for "A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake" written with Joseph Campbell and his 1950 novel "The Cardinal", which "Time" magazine reported was "The year's most popular book, fiction or nonfiction."
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Windsor Castle (novel) Windsor Castle is a novel by William Harrison Ainsworth serially published in 1842. It is a historical romance with gothic elements that depicts Henry VIII's pursuit of Anne Boleyn. Intertwined with the story are the actions of Herne the Hunter, a legendary ghost that haunts Windsor woods.
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Cloudsplitter Cloudsplitter is a 1998 historical novel by Russell Banks relating the story of abolitionist John Brown.
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Watching the Dark (novel) Watching the Dark is the twentieth novel by Canadian detective fiction writer Peter Robinson in the multi award-winning Inspector Banks series of novels. The novel was first printed in August 2012.
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A Stitch in Time (novel) A Stitch in Time (ISBN  ), published June 5, 2000, is a "" novel written by Andrew Robinson. The novel originated from a biography of Cardassian Elim Garak in the form of a diary which was written by Robinson after he landed the recurring role in the series. He would read extracts from it at "Star Trek" conventions for fans, and was heard by novelist David R. George III, who suggested he should submit it for publishing. It became the first "Star Trek" novel to be written by an actor from the series without the aid of a ghost writer. Although it was announced that a sequel would be published in 2001, co-written by fellow actor Alexander Siddig, the only follow-up to the novel was Robinson's short story "The Calling" which was published as part of the "Prophecy and Change" anthology in 2003.
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Night of Power (novel) Night of Power is a novel by Spider Robinson. This is a speculative fiction tale about a race war that could have happened in New York. The book, written in 1984 although first published a year later, is set in the year 1996. The story revolves around an interracial family that has to deal with a black revolution in New York.
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Norah Lofts Norah Lofts, "née" Norah Ethel Robinson, (27 August 190410 September 1983) was a 20th-century best-selling British author. She wrote more than fifty books specialising in historical fiction, but she also wrote non-fiction and short stories. Many of her novels, including her Suffolk Trilogy, follow the history of specific houses and their residents over several generations.
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Flying Colours (novel) Flying Colours is a Horatio Hornblower novel by C. S. Forester, originally published 1938 as the third in the series, but now eighth by internal chronology. It describes the adventures of Hornblower and his companions escaping from imprisonment in Napoleonic France and returning to England. It is one of three "Hornblower" novels adapted into the 1951 British-American film "Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.".
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Scarface (novel) Scarface is a novel written by Armitage Trail in 1929 and published in 1930. The 1932 film "Scarface" was based on it. The twenty-eight year-old author died suddenly of a heart attack in 1930.
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Home (Robinson novel) Home is a novel written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Marilynne Robinson. Published in 2008, it is Robinson's third novel, preceded by "Housekeeping" in 1980 and "Gilead" in 2004.
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Tony Robinson Sir Anthony "Tony" Robinson (born 15 August 1946) is an English actor, comedian, author, presenter, historian and political activist. He is known for playing Baldrick in the BBC television series "Blackadder" and for hosting the Channel 4 programmes "Time Team" and "The Worst Jobs in History". Robinson is a member of the Labour Party and has served on its National Executive Committee. He has also written sixteen children's books.
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Crusoe (TV series) Crusoe is a television adventure drama (with comedic elements) based loosely on the novel "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe. The series' 13 episodes aired on NBC during the first half of the 2008–2009 television season. It follows the adventures of Robinson Crusoe: a man who has been shipwrecked on an island for six years and is desperate to return home to his wife and children. His lone companion is Friday, a native whom Crusoe rescued and taught English.
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Derek Robinson (novelist) Derek Robinson (born 1932) is a British author best known for his military aviation novels full of black humour. He has also written several books on some of the more sordid events in the history of Bristol, his home town, as well as guides to rugby. He was nominated for the Booker Prize in 1971 for his first novel, "Goshawk Squadron".
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Black Robe Black Robe, first published in 1985, is a historical novel by Brian Moore set in New France in the 17th century. Its central theme is the collision of European and Native American cultures soon after first contact. First Nations peoples historically called French Jesuit priests "Black Robes" because of their religious habit.
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Meet Me in St. Louis (novel) Meet Me in St. Louis is a 1942 novel by Sally Benson. It is the basis for the 1944 film "Meet Me in St. Louis".
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Hobomok Hobomok, a Tale of Early Times. is a novel by the nineteenth century American author and human rights campaigner Lydia Maria Child. Her first novel, published in 1824 under the pseudonym "An American", was inspired by John G. Palfrey's article in the "North American Review". It is set during the colonial time period of King Philip's War. Among other themes, it relates the marriage of a recently immigrated white American woman, Mary Conant, to the eponymous Native American, her widowing, and her attempt to raise their son in white society.
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Robinson Crusoe (1974 television film) Robinson Crusoe is a 1974 television film version of the story by Daniel Dafoe starring Stanley Baker in the title role and Ram John Holder as Friday. In the UK, it was first broadcast in the BBC's "Play of the Month" on 27 November 1974. In the USA it was broadcast on NBC.
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Swallows and Amazons (1974 film) Swallows and Amazons is a 1974 British film based on the novel of the same name by Arthur Ransome.
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The Fated Sky The Fated Sky is the title of a historical novel for young adults by English author Henrietta Branford, first published in Great Britain in 1996 by Hodder Children's Books. Set in Norway and Iceland during the Viking period, it depicts the stirring but bleak existence of Dark Age Europeans at a time of insecurity and constant threat from raiders. The story follows a young woman called Ran from the time she loses her mother in a wolf attack, and a subsequent attempt to kill her as a human sacrifice, to her escape with a blind harper, Toki, to a new life in Iceland. Even there however the threat of sudden violence hangs over small and isolated farming communities. The book does not dwell on bloodshed but is honest about the hardship, unpredictability and cruelty of the period, showing even sympathetic central characters as not immune to painful death. Moral choices are also at times difficult.
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Blind Faith (book) Blind Faith is a 1989 true crime novel by Joe McGinniss, based on the 1984 case in which American businessman Robert O. Marshall was charged with (and later convicted of) the contract killing of his wife, Maria. The book was adapted into an television miniseries of the same name in 1990.