Interestingly, one book-to-movie adaptation that managed to avoid this curse was Jurassic Park.
That's the cover of the first edition, and that T. Rex skeleton in silhouette became so iconic that a version of it was incorporated into the movie's own logo:
Subsequent editions of the novel had the movie logo on the cover, but this was much less objectionable than, say, plastering the book with photos of Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum. It's always nice to see the graphic design of a book influence the design of its film adaptation, mainly because it happens so rarely.
