Of course you know that The Social Network is based on Ben Mezrick’s The Accidental Billionaires and that the upcoming Gulliver’s Travels is nominally based on Jonathan Swift’s satire.

But some connections are less obvious. Two movies getting heavy promotion right now are the upcoming Anne Hathaway/Jake Gyllenhaal rom/com Love and Other Drugs, which is based on a memoir of a Viagra salesman. The Way Back, with Collin Farrell and Ed Harris is based on The Long Walk,  a memoir of soldier captured by the Red Army in 1939 who escaped with six others, by foot, all the way to India. The latter is getting Oscar buzz for both director Peter Weir and star Ed Harris.

Below are the trailers and tie-in information:

LOVE AND OTHER DRUGS — 11/24

Tie-in:

Hard Sell: Now a Major Motion Picture LOVE & OTHER DRUGS Jamie Reidy Retail Price: $12.99 Paperback: 240 pages Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing – (2010-11-30) ISBN / EAN: 0740799134 / 9780740799136

THE WAY BACK — 12/29, limited; Expands 1/21/11

Tie-in:

The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom: Movie Tie-In Slavomir Rawicz Retail Price: $14.95 Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Lyons Press – (2010-11-16) ISBN / EAN: 1599219751 / 9781599219752

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