The good, the bad, and the ugly

We were discussing book covers this morning (after reading this article) and I got to thinking about film tie-in covers which are almost always insipid and seldom add anything to the original (more often they detract and put readers off). A few, like the Game of Thrones covers do it right, but they seem to be in the extreme minority.

Above, you can see a selection of recent covers, the original on the left, the new on the right, as well as The Young and Prodigious T.S Spivet (awful cover) which is a re-working of The Selected Works of T.S Spivet (brilliant cover), and The Notebook film tie-in.