Sentences with phrase «star wars novel»
Martha Wells, author of the Star Wars novel Razor's Edge, wrote fan fiction before she signed on to pen a novel about Princess Leia.
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Most of these books will have an updated Star Wars novel timeline, to give you a sense of the history of the expanded universe.
«When we manually looked into the accounts, we noticed that [their tweets were] just random quotations from Star Wars novels,» says Zhou.
Fry's Star Wars novels have included several titles aimed at young adults, but he is perhaps better known for his guides that touch on nearly every aspect of the Star Wars Universe, from expansive encyclopedias to deep - dives on era - specific vehicles.
«Readers and fans have been asking for the Star Wars novels to be made available digitally, and we're excited that we can finally make this happen,» said Howard Roffman, President of Lucas Licensing.
Star Wars novels never appealed to a broader audience than existing Star Wars fans, Harry Potter contributed little of value to the game space, and Clancy never brought anything to the table that was appealing to kids or families (though that's probably a wise omission).
That said, the Star Wars novels and the Potter games were financial successes - and that's the point I am trying to make.
Not exact matches
Since the novel was for the first time published in 1961, it precedes Star Wars» Tatooine planet (1977) in terms of the first case of a circumbinary planet in pop culture.
I'm a well rounded nerd who loves anime, Star Wars, fantasy novels and movies, and Comic Book movies.
One of the problems «World War Z» has faced all along is that it looks like a high - concept zombie - apocalypse movie (adapted from Max Brooks» novel, told as a series of first - person accounts) but it's really something we don't see that often these days, an old - fashioned Hollywood star picture.
Tom Cruise stars in an adaptation of Kosinski's own graphic novel, set in the year 2073 when Earth is mostly abandoned after being devastated by war.
Based on Humphrey Cobb's antiwar novel, this classic war movie starred Kirk Douglas as a French colonel in World War I who defends three doomed soldiers about to be executed for their alleged cowardice in a battle lost by an incompetent and morally bankrupt general (Adolphe Menjowar movie starred Kirk Douglas as a French colonel in World War I who defends three doomed soldiers about to be executed for their alleged cowardice in a battle lost by an incompetent and morally bankrupt general (Adolphe MenjoWar I who defends three doomed soldiers about to be executed for their alleged cowardice in a battle lost by an incompetent and morally bankrupt general (Adolphe Menjou).
Based on Max Brooks» novel and directed by Marc Forster (Machine Gun Preacher, Quantum of Solace), World War Z also stars Mireille Enos, Matthew Fox, David Morse, and James Badge Dale.
Based on the novels by Joe Lansdale, the six - part series stars James as Hap Collins, a working class laborer who spent time in federal prison as a young man for refusing to serve in the Vietnam War — Watch the trailer below!
Eleven years after drawing a few boos and zero prizes for her competition entry «Marie Antoinette,» Sofia Coppola won directing honors for «The Beguiled,» her slyly feminist adaptation of a Civil War - era novel that previously inspired Don Siegel's 1971 thriller starring Clint Eastwood.
Based on the Vince Flynn novel of the same name, the film stars Dylan O'Brien as Mitch Rapp, a CIA black ops recruit who comes under the instruction of a Cold War veteran, played by Michael Keaton.
Things most likely won't be slowing down in 2012 for Paramount either, with a roster that boasts the Brad Pitt - starring adaptation of Max Brooks» best - selling novel «World War Z,» «G.I. Joe: Retaliation,» another installment in the highly profitable «Paranormal Activity» franchise, and the «Borat» pairing of Sacha Baron Cohen and director Larry Charles will bring audiences «The Dictator.»
Ben - Hur Stars: Jack Huston (Ben - Hur), Toby Kebbell (Messala), Morgan Freeman (Sheik Liderim), Rodrigo Santoro (Jesus), Pilou Asbaek (Pontius Pilate), Nazanin Boniadi, Sofia Black D'Elia, Ayelet Zurer, Marwan Kenzari and James Cosmo Director: Timur Bekmambetov Scriptwriters: Keith Clarke and John Ridley from the novel «Ben - Hur: A Tale of the Christ» by Lew Wallace Composer: Mario Beltrami Cinematographer: Oliver Wood MGM Rating: R for violence including war, slavery, chariot racing Running Length: 125 minutes
Little Women — The 1994 film adaptation of this classic novel stars Winona Ryder, Trini Alvarado, Samantha Mathis, and Claire Danes as sisters living alone with their mother while their father is away fighting in the Civil War.
Fey stars as real life war correspondent Kim Barker, whose novel The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan has here been adapted for the screen by Fey's fellow 30 Rock / Saturday Night Live / Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt scribe Robert Carlock.
The new period romance starring Michelle Williams and Matthias Shoenaerts is based on a novel that survived World War II against the odds.
He will also star in Alan Rickman's A Little Chaos, which will close the Toronto film festival in September; romantic war drama Suite Francaise; and novel adaptation Far from the Madding Crowd, directed by Thomas Vinterberg and starring Juno Temple, Michael Sheen and Carey Mulligan.
Based on the graphic novel and original screenplay by Kevin Grevioux (creator of the Underworld series), the film stars Aaron Eckhart as Adam, a contemporary Frankenstein monster now living in a dark, gothic metropolis who finds himself caught in an all - out, centuries old war between two immortal clans.
Terence Davies's adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbons's novel, first published in 1932, stars Agyness Deyn as Chris, a Scottish farm worker who sees family trauma merge into global catastrophe as the first world war devastates her village.
But where Harris's novel understood its place in the bittersweet, paranoid zeitgeist, Black Sunday, with its all - star cast (Robert Shaw two years after Jaws, Bruce Dern at his peak, Marthe Keller a year removed from Marathon Man), megalomaniacal producer Robert Evans, and blockbuster aspirations, proves to be another Star Wars - style harbinger of the impending end of what was possibly the most amazing period in film in histstar cast (Robert Shaw two years after Jaws, Bruce Dern at his peak, Marthe Keller a year removed from Marathon Man), megalomaniacal producer Robert Evans, and blockbuster aspirations, proves to be another Star Wars - style harbinger of the impending end of what was possibly the most amazing period in film in histStar Wars - style harbinger of the impending end of what was possibly the most amazing period in film in history.
Based on Diane Ackerman's non-fiction novel of the same name, the film stars Jessica Chastain and Johan Heldenbergh as the Warsaw Zoo keepers Antonina and Jan Zabinska, who during World War II used their home and zoo to shelter and save the lives of hundreds of displaced Jews; take a look below...
Comedy - War Machine is a satirical comedy starring Brad Pitt, and is based on the best - selling novel The Operators: The Wild...
Gary Oldman stars as George Smiley, a retired spy brought back into British intelligence to try to root out a Soviet mole, in this adaptation of John le Carré's 1974 cold - war novel.
Based on the best - selling novel of the same name by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun stars Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave) and Thandie Newton (The Pursuit of Happyness) as an upper class couple whose marriage is put to the test when Nigeria breaks into the crippling 1967 civil war that births the short - lived republic of Biafra.
The adaptation of Ian McEwan's best - selling novel set around the Second World War, starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy, also scooped best original score after receiving seven -LSB-...]
Stalwart composer Michael Giacchino does better at updating rousing or menacing Star Wars motifs with novel, moodier themes.
Based on the screenplay of the eagerly anticipated final film in George Lucas's epic saga, bestselling Star Wars author Matthew Stover's novel crackles with action, captures the iconic characters in all their complexity, and brings a space opera masterpiece full circle in stunning style.
Starring Idris Elba and newcomer Abraham Attah, the film is based on the novel by Uzodinma Iweala, centering on the young Agu (Attah), a child soldier tragically separated from his family and forced to join a band of rebels in the civil war of an African country led by Commandant (Elba) who takes in... Read
Legendary Pictures» Dune is a project likely a couple years away, due to being in the scripting phase and the extensive production design needed to create that elaborate universe (the novel and original 70s incarnation inspired Star Wars you can imagine the scale involved).
Because of the whole Star Wars Legends alternate universe (the classic Expanded Universe) and the current canon universe, there's some move for changes to be made in the movie and not to play spoiler, they change it up from the previous novels.
Matt Stover's excellent Star Wars Legends novel shows how and why Luke succeeded where the last generation of Jedi failed.
I never read the John Le Carré novel the movie was based upon, but I was still drawn in by its all - star British cast and intriguing espionage premise set during the Cold War.
Interesting little melodrama based on a novel by Arthur Roth and starring Robert Mitchum as Dermot O'Neil, a young IRA man who begins to regret his decision to become involved in an attack on Britain in the early years of the Second World War.
Now in postproduction, it stars, uh, Mel Gibson as an ex-con trying to protect his estranged daughter (Erin Moriarty) from drug dealers (in New Mexico again) and co-stars William H. Macy, Diego Luna, and Michael Parks... Ewan McGregor and Mandy Patinkin will star in Phillip Noyce's adaptation of Philip Roth's 1997 novel American Pastoral in which a Jewish - American businessman's world is upended when Vietnam War activist daughter carries out a terrorist act... Meryl Streep will play opera diva Maria Callas in a new HBO movie...
Based on the novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane, the film stars Affleck as Joe Coughlin, a World War I vet and son of a Boston Police Deputy Superintendent who operates in the criminal underworld during a Prohibition - era Miami.
This is The Beguiled, directed by Sofia Coppola, an American Civil War drama, involving a fleeing Union soldier who finds haven in a prim girls» boarding school, adapted from the novel of the same name by Thomas Cullinan, but more famously known as a troublingly brilliant film from 1971 by Don Siegel, starring Clint Eastwood and Geraldine Page.
Based on the bestselling first novel in the «Inheritance Trilogy» by Christopher Paolini, the film version of Eragon feels like a production trying to emulate two other famous trilogies, Lord of the Rings and the original Star Wars films.
You've probably already seen Rogue One a million times by now (yeah, we know), you may even have read the prequel novel a few times itself, and you probably watched Star Wars Rebels for the Saw Gerrera's tie - in, but soon, those won't be your only options for reliving the movie!
Inspired by Max Brooks» 2006 post-apocalyptic novel «World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War,» the first film starred Pitt as a former United Nations investigator who must find a way to stop a global zombie pandemic.
He supervised the production of films including George Clooney's 2005 Best Picture nominee Good Night, and Good Luck; the critically acclaimed family film and 2006 NAACP Image Award nominee Akeelah and the Bee, starring Laurence Fishburne and Angela Bassett; dark thriller Turistas, for which domestic rights were sold to Fox Atomic in a pre-emptive bid within hours of the film's first screening; James Gray's crime thriller We Own the Night, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, Robert Duvall and Eva Mendes, which ranked as the largest - ever domestic sale at Cannes; and The Road, an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize - winning novel starring Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron and Robert Duvall, which pre-sold to The Weinstein Company in a multi-party bidding war.
Based on Diane Ackerman's non-fiction novel of the same name, the film stars Jessica Chastain and Johan Heldenbergh as the Warsaw Zoo keepers Antonina and Jan Zabinska, who during World War II used their home -LSB-...]
The Enemy Below (Kino Classics, Blu - ray), a World War II submarine drama based on the novel of the same name by Commander D. A. Rayner, stars Robert Mitchum as Captain Murrell, the newly - appointed commander of an American Destroyer in the South Atlantic, and German star Curd Jürgens making his American film debut as Commander Von Stolberg, a German submarine commander whose mission is imperiled when the American warship gives chase.
«I was very lucky that I got to sit down up at Skywalker Ranch and meet with the author who wrote the novel for Star Wars: The Last Jedi.»
Sitting on the metal bunk in his jail cell, Tommy flips through the final pages of a «Star Wars» book and then picks up A Time to Kill, a novel about rape and murder in a small Mississippi town.
She is also an unabashed Star Wars geek and comic book enthusiast who fell into romance novels when a writing contest prompt turned a 1000 - word romantic story into a full - blown novel.