Movie-Book Kist

Some of my favorite movies are movies that have been based off of books.  The first time I saw "A Walk to Remember" I fell completely in love.  I watched it four times in a matter of two days, and then I instantly went out and bought the book.  I started to notice a pattern when I started seeing movies such as "Twilight", "The Notebook", "Requiem for a Dream", and "Lovely Bones".  They were all exceptional movies and when I read the books they were just as good.  Then movies started coming out for books that I have already read and I was very eager to watch them.  They were all really good but I noticed that I typically liked the book more than I liked the movie.  I pictured certain characters and settings in very specific ways, and when they did not look how I envisioned them it was a little bit upsetting.  My entire vision was altered and some aspects of the movie were not as enthralling as I expected them to be. 
This made me start thinking that it would be interesting to possibly take films and then turn them into books.  I do not know if it has ever been done before but I believe it could work.  There could be books that depicted the same movie with more details, or there could be a book that discussed what happened before or after the movie's plot.  I think it would be an interesting project for students to complete and it would really exercise their creative writing skills.  This would also incorporate different multi-modalities.  They would have to view different films and analyze what messages the directors were trying to convey.  One film that I think would be very interesting to see transferred from film to literature is "Sucker Punch".  There were a lot of different graphics that were very appealing, and the plot was thick with multiple plots going on at one time.  It would be great for a graphic novel, and it could be a fun project for the class to work on as a whole.