Sentences with phrase «american big screen adaptation»

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Lenny Abrahamson will direct the big screen adaptation of Laird Hunt's critically acclaimed American Civil War novel Neverhome.

Based on Thursday night's numbers, American Assassin - the first big screen adaptation of Vince Flynn novels featuring counter-terrorism agent Mitch Rapp (Dylan O'Brien)- looks to be the favorite for the No. 2 slot.

In April, the four - time Oscar - winning director and producer signed on to direct the big - screen adaptation of The 15:17 to Paris — an adaptation of the novel The 15:17 to Paris: The True Story of a Terrorist, a Train, and Three American Heroes — which recounts the true - life events surrounding three American men who subdued an ISIS terrorist armed with an AK - 47 who was on a train from Amsterdam to Paris in 2015.

The long - awaited sophomore film from playwright Kenneth Lonergan («You Can Count On Me «-RRB- was like a big - screen adaptation of an imagined Great American Novel, sprawling and literate and humane and brilliant.

Travers «spent the rest of her life maligning what she saw as the maudlin mess her Mary Poppins had become on the big screen», and when she agreed to a stage an adaptation in the 1990s, she insisted, right there in her last will and testament, that no Americans, and certainly no one who had been involved in that dreadful Disney film, would be allowed to participate.»)