Big Fish
The movie Big Fish is from a novel by author, artist, alligator wrangler Daniel Wallace
"In this first novel, Daniel Wallace...adds legends and folk tales from the Southern backwoods, throws in a smattering of Greek myth and attaches a few of his own inventions. Applying all of these...resulted in a story that is both comic and poignant." -- NYTimes Review
Interview with Daniel Wallace (PDF) and Tim Burton Biography