What's the Difference?

First Blood is best known as the first Rambo movie. As a major launching point in Sylvester Stallone’s career. But before all that, First Blood was a novel by David Morrell. We look at both side-by-side, and tell you: “What’s the Difference?”

The Walking Dead’s mid-season premiere is coming up soon, and to celebrate, we’re taking look back. All the way back to the comics that inspired the show. We’ll look at the first volumes of Robert Kirkman’s comic, side-by-side with the first season of the AMC show, and tell you: “What’s the Difference”?

Excited for Jurassic World? Of course you are! Jurassic Park was a #1 box office smash, and the book by Michael Crichton was a #1 New York Times Best Seller. We’ll take a look at the book and the movie side-by-side, and tell you: “What’s the Difference?”

With Kingsman The Secret Service out, it’s the perfect time to revisit Kick-Ass, the first brainchild of Matthew Vaughn and Mark Millar. They’re clearly a brilliant team-up, but Kick-Ass went through some changes from page to screen. Today, we’ll show you: What’s the Difference?

Before it was the original summer blockbuster, Jaws was a novel by Peter Benchley that sold like gangbusters. You guys have been asking for it, so here we are: Jaws - What’s the Difference?

What film led the way for the second wave of anime fandom outside of Japan and is a major influence on live-action films? We teamed up with Tom Pinchuk from AnimeVice.com to tackle. : Akira - What’s the Difference?

Before Brad Pitt barked out the First Rule of Fight Club, people were talking about Fight Club: The novel by Chuck Palahniuk won a some awards, but the film adaptation in 1999 is what put the story on the map.

We’ve returned from our mid-season break, so we’ve decided to re-visit the show that’s pretty much synonymous with midseason beaks for us: The Walking Dead. This time, we’re taking a look at the show, and the comics, and What’s the Difference between the source material and the show for Season 2!

What’s the Difference comes at you this week with one of the most popular viewer suggestions: The Shining. And we can see why - it’s a book by Stephen King, a film by Stanley Kubrick, and the source of some truly iconic imagery. HEEEREEE’s JOHNNY!!

Watchmen was one of the most influential comics series in history. Yet it took several decades for Alan Moore’s dark story about a team of masked heroes to make it from page to screen. Zack Snyder’s 2009 adaptation was pretty faithful to the source, but there were some key differences - and we’ll give you a tour of them all!

Before the first strains of Richard Strauss' "Also Sprach Zarathustra" echoed in movie theaters (and the public consciousness for decades to come), 2001: A Space Odyssey was a novel by Arthur C. Clarke. Stanley Kubrick made a lot of adjustments in his adaptation, and we’ll give you the full tour!

Last time on What’s the difference, we took you from the echoing strains of "Also Sprach Zarathustra" to our lonely astronauts on the Discovery One. Today, we’ll take you the rest of the way through the Stargate, to further explore the differences between film and page.

X-Men: Days of Future past hit theaters last year with the force of a dropping baseball stadium! It had everyone: Magneto! Professor X! And lots and lots of Wolverine! But in the original Marvel Comics story arc, things were a bit different, to say the least!

Where the Wild Things Are is one of the most beloved children’s books in American history. Maurice Sendak’s illustrations and story was brought to the silver screen in 2009, under the direction of “ Spike Jonze. So, how did the director of “Adaptation” pull of this adaptation?

Alice in Wonderland is a classic of children’s literature and one of Walt Disney’s great animated successes. It’s well known for its surreal and nonsensical plot twists, so it’s going to be quite the trip down the rabbit hole to cover all the differences between book and film.

Psycho was a novel inspired by the horrific acts of Ed Gein, and the film is known as one of Alfred Hitchcock’s best films. So it’s time for us to take a stab at uncovering all the differences between the book and film.

V for Vendetta is Alan Moore’s graphic novel about anarchist V combating the fascist government in a dystopian UK. The film adaptation was the same... but different! So it’s time for us to take a stab at uncovering all the differences between the graphic novel and film.

The Walking Dead has returned to television for the sixth season and a spin-off, so it’s time for another deep dive into all the deviations between the comics and the show! Season 3 of the show covered a large swath of the comics, but liberally deviated from the story. Fortunately, we’re here to tell you: What’s the Difference?

Casino Royale is Ian Flemmings first novel in the James Bond series dealing with gambling, spying, and Britain’s place in the world, and the 2006 film was both a critical and box office success. So it’s time for us to see if we can spy all the differences between the novel and film.

The Princess Bride is a book within a book that was adapted into a book within a movie that garnered most of its success on home video. Now it’s time for us to read between the lines to find the differences between the book and the film.