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Films/shows based on a newspaper, magazine, or website article, or essay that may have originated in a book.

New Yorker regular David Grann's entertaining collection The Devil and Sherlock Holmes has already produced four movies (five if you count the Frédéric Bourdin doc The Impostor, which you probably shouldn't), with two more in development. He also wrote the book on which The Lost City of Z was based, and his other two books are also being filmed, including Killers of the Flower Moon by Scorsese with DeNiro.

Bill Plympton should adapt DFW's "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again".

At least one of the articles in question was more or less completely fabricated: the basis of Saturday Night Fever, Nik Cohn's "Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night". Cohn: "In the '60s and '70s, the line between fact and fiction was blurry...Few editors asked tough questions. For the most part it was a case of 'don't ask, don't tell.'"

That may have been a self-serving exaggeration of the practices encouraged by New Journalism, but it makes you wonder, and has its basis in fact: ask Truman Capote. (Well, you can't, but you know what I mean.)

We may have recently missed out on more: there were two movies in production from articles by Sabrina Erdely, before her infamous "A Rape on Campus" was discredited.