Works of fiction with modified titles - Statistics

After the ship that was meant to bring him and his family to Canada sunk, one of the Teletubbies is left stranded on a lifeboat with a tiger. (Yann Martel, 2001)

A group of stranded children struggle to survive in an uninhabited island and chose as their leader the most dishonest of them all. (William Golding, 1954)

This musical, loosely based on the Wizard of Oz, tells the story of how Elphaba and Galinda became famous cricket players. (Stephen Schwartz, 2003)

Upon learning he has cancer, a chemistry teacher, Walter White, has to cope with the fact he will lose his hair. (Vince Gilligan, 2008)

In Amity island, a wild bear brutally kills tourist in the peak of summer, prompting his hunt by the authorities. (Steven Spielberg, 1975)

Follow the antics of genius physicists Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper as they get stoned out of their minds. (Chuck Lorre, Bill Prady, 2007)

At an hospital, a patient burnt beyond recognition and with a british accent recalls all the inventions he made during his life, and how he trademarked them. (Anthony Minghella, 1996)

In the midst of a zombie apocalypse, Rick Grimes roams across the United States by foot, looking for his son. (Frank Darabont, 2010)

Sherlock Holmes is called to Dartmoor to investigate the death of a baronet, whose family, according to an old legend, is haunted by a mysterious noise. (Arthur Conan Doyle, 1902)

In this anti-war novel, the narrator relates events from his WWII experience, including his capture during the Battle of the Bulge and his survival from Dresden’s firebombing, where he is kept in a building in which cattle are tickled to death. (Kurt Vonnegut, 1969)

This Sondheim and Bernstein musical, adapted into film multiple times, tells the story of the gang rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, who both try to control the neighborhood's aquatic park. (1957)

On the small island of Pianosa, during the Second World War, captain Yossarian is placed in an impossible situation: he can be discharged by winning a soccer game but winning it would prove he is in peak physical condition and therefore prevent his discharge. (Joseph Heller, 1961)

Santiago, a fisherman who hasn’t caught anything in 84 days, sets out to sea on a freezing morning and struggles to catch a gigantic marlin. (Ernest Hemingway, 1952)

A 60 years old Jake LaMotta tries to make a comeback into the ring, years after his retirement.

Due to Lennie Small’s mental handicap, everywhere he and George Milton go usually ends in tragedy, eventually forcing them to flee. They end up in Dunder Mifflin’s location in Scranton before Lennie messes up once more. (John Steinbeck, 1937)

After finding a map that shows Captain Flint hid his booty far from the coast, Jim Hawkins sets out to find it, accompanied by a crew that comprises the cook Long John Silver. (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883)

Rodion Raskolnikov, a former law student living in poverty, kills a Sevastopol’s pawnbrowker and struggles with the consequences of his actions. (Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866)

In this long-running West End production with over 25 000 representations, a telegraph helps, in a twist ending, solve a murder mystery in the Monkswell Manor. (Agatha Christie, 1947)