User blog comment:GravityMan/Literature vs History 8: Golden Ticket Extravaganza/@comment-25363318-20160228021453/@comment-5264252-20160228045135

I'd say it's generally as loosely based as Disney movies are to their original counterparts. Both still involve a boy named Hogarth finding an iron giant. Plus, the Iron Man book was renamed to the Iron Giant in Western releases. But yeah, both are quite different from one another and I'd say the movies more famous than the book is, but I still would think that it's something to take into consideration.