Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story was a 2000 television film, based on the Anne of Green Gables novels by Lucy Maud Montgomery. It was the most controversial and heavily criticized of the three film adaptations written and produced by Kevin Sullivan .
The film was criticized principally because unlike the 1985 Anne of Green Gables and its 1987 sequel Anne of Avonlea, the screenplay was not based on Montgomery's novels, but instead used Montgomery's much-loved characters in a wholly original World War I story by Sullivan and Laurie Pearson .