Editing Michel Houellebecq (section)

== Adaptations ==
''[[Whatever (novel)|Extension du domaine de la lutte]]'' has been adapted into a film with [[Whatever (1999 film)|the same title]] by [[Philippe Harel]], and later adapted as a play in Danish by [[Jens Albinus]] for the [[Royal Danish Theatre]].

The English translation of his novel ''Platform'' was adapted as a play by the theatre company Carnal Acts for the [[Institute of Contemporary Arts]] (ICA) in London in December 2004. A Spanish adaptation of the novel by [[Calixto Bieito]], performed by Companyia Teatre Romea, premiered at the 2006 [[Edinburgh International Festival]]. Houellebecq and Bieito appeared together that same year in a TV program named [[Durch die Nacht mit ...|''Au cœur de la nuit'' / ''Durch die Nacht'']] (''Through the night'') for the French-German channel [[Arte]].

Along with [[Loo Hui Phang]], Houellebecq wrote the screenplay for the film ''Monde extérieur'' (2002) by David Rault and [[David Warren (director)|David Warren]].

''Atomised'' has been made into a German film, ''[[Atomised (film)|Elementarteilchen]]'', directed by [[Oskar Roehler]], starring [[Moritz Bleibtreu]] and [[Franka Potente]]. The film premiered in 2006 at the [[56th Berlin International Film Festival]]. It was poorly received and generally considered a watered-down take on the novel's bleakness and thought-provoking ideas.

The film ''[[La Possibilité d'une île (film)|La Possibilité d'une île]]'', directed by Houellebecq himself and based on his novel, premiered in France on 10 September 2008. It was a critical and commercial failure, sometimes even considered one of the worst films ever made in France, alongside Bernard Henri Levy's ''[[Le Jour et la Nuit]]'', although some authors found him intriguing and recognized redeeming qualities.

American rock singer and "godfather of punk" [[Iggy Pop]] released in 2009 the unusually quiet album ''[[Préliminaires]]'', which he described as influenced by his reading of Michel Houellebecq's novel ''[[The Possibility of an Island]]'' (one track 'A Machine for Loving' even consists in the singer merely reading a passage from the book over a musical accompaniment.). The author considered it a great honour, as he was himself deeply affected as a teenager by Iggy Pop's music with [[The Stooges]],<ref name="hunnewell"/> even going so far as to say that he was, for once, "completely happy".

In 2016 he participated, together with Iggy Pop and several others, in Erik Lieshout's documentary ''[[To Stay Alive: A Method]]'', based on his 1991 essay.