This results in an ensemble that does a great job with what they're given, doing what every
film adaptation of a novel should do: bring the characters to life.
In addition to QUEEN OF THE DESERT, Lewis» upcoming film credits include THE SILENT STORM, which had its world premiere at the 2014 BFI London Film Festival and was recently acquired by Sony Pictures Worldwide Releasing, and OUR KIND OF TRAITOR, the film
adaptation of the novel by John le Carré, which he co-stars in opposite Ewan McGregor and Naomie Harris.
Just when the theological debate surrounding the release of the big -
screen adaptation of the novel The Shack had died down, Twitter user Erik Reed has just conceived of a film that is putting the heresy police back on their toes.
«The Lord of the Flies» (1963) A film
adaptation of a novel about kids who get stranded on an island, «The Lord of the Flies» is upsetting.
This is a big reason why the films (which are not so much
adaptations of the novels as they are emanations of them) have become very personal affairs for their fans.
I think about great
adaptations of novels like «The Shining», which I guess Stephen King doesn't like because he saw something different in it.
Just when the theological debate surrounding the release of the big - screen
adaptation of the novel The Shack had died down, Twitter user Erik Reed has just conceived of a film...
The words are spoken in E.M. Forster's timeless masterpiece, «Howards End,» by Ruth Wilcox (Julia Ormond), the matriarch of the wealthy family that shares the stage in the thrilling four -
part adaptation of the novel premiering on Starz on Sunday, April 8.
Carol works beautifully, but only on one level; it's a
great adaptation of a novel by a great writer, and that's a lot, but that's all.
Our installment this week takes a turn for the dark and twisted, as we tackle David Fincher's
adaptation of novel Gone Girl.
Whether by accident or design, Reitman's
adaptation of the novel also comes along at a time when the material couldn't be more touchily topical, albeit for different reasons.
Aided by the marvelous, impressionist - styled images of cinematographer Nestor Almendros and a swooning score by Georges Delerue, François Truffaut transforms his
second adaptation of a novel by Henri - Pierre Roché (author of Jules and Jim) into an overwhelming sensory experience.
For all of the references in their films, No Country and True Grit are the Coens»
only adaptations of novels.1 Indeed, one of the most underappreciated aspects of their work is its literary quality.
Although it shares many similarities with the first film
adaptation of the novel directed by Kon Ichikawa in 1959, Tsukamoto chose to bring some of his more traditional genre film experience to the project in order to create a more vivid portrait of the horror and obscenity of war.
Currently, they are in pre-production on a limited
series adaptation of the novel, «Today Will Be Different,» by Maria Semple, which has Julia Roberts attached to star, the adult animated series «Amberville,» for Amazon, and «The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,» a Western anthology written and directed by the Coen Brothers, amongst other projects in development.
We Need to Talk About Kevin, Ramsay's hypnotic
cinematic adaptation of the novel by Lionel Shriver, manages to combine her medley of heightened aesthetics with a keenly dark sense of humor and place.
Hugo's eye for characterization, complex interconnected plots, revolutionary fervor, the healing power of religion, social outcasts, and love is on full display in this film
adaptation of his novel Notre Dame de Paris.
The depth and intensity of Fante's autocritique are missing from writer - director Robert Towne's sexy, sensual, romantic,
nostalgic adaptation of the novel, a labor of love he's been trying to realize for years — he discovered the book while researching Chinatown, his most famous script.
Edge of Tomorrow has spawned a couple of new releases from VIZ Media: Edge of Tomorrow, a movie tie - in mass market reissue of the Hiroshi Sakurazaka novel on which the movie is based (originally called All You Need Is Kill), and a graphic
novel adaptation of the novel, with the original title.
This is his second movie with Ronan; at age 13, she received her first Oscar nomination for playing the troublemaking Briony Tallis in the film
adaptation of his novel Atonement.
What looks like a faintly sleazy, off - brand version of that Black Widow movie Marvel refuses to make is actually a fairly adult -
oriented adaptation of a novel by a former CIA officer.
Walden had a promising and productive start last decade, teaming with the likes of Disney, Paramount, New Line, and Fox to make
appealing adaptations of novels new and old.
They're trying their best to avoid calling it a remake by saying it's a new adaptation of the infamous 1997 novel by Japanese author Ryu Murakami, but let's face it, this is totally going to be a remake of Miike's film, who delivered an
amazing adaptation of the novel back in 1999.
The most
successful adaptation of the novel's themes may actually be Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, which hadn't the challenge of addressing the baggage James Whale brought to the material, to say nothing of Mel Brooks.
The only
other adaptation of this novel was the 1978 feature - length film written and directed by Martin Rosen and starring John Hurt, so it's pretty exciting that they're doing it this time as a miniseries.
Martin Scorsese's
adaptation of the novel Shutter Island (by Mystic River and Gone, Baby, Gone author Dennis Lehane) is a film that operates on a heightened level that almost makes a traditional narrative analysis redundant.
An
uncompromising adaptation of a novel that might have benefited from a multifloor rehab, Ben Wheatley's ferociously literal take on J.G. Ballard's teetering 1975 social satire is, like Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice, an exquisite testament to cinema's capacity to serve the written page.
Agatha Christie's Murder On The Orient Express is one of the most famous murder mysteries, so promotion for the latest film
adaptation of the novel began with reintroducing the strangers on a train.
In a nutshell, Cage takes on the role of Charlie Kaufman, a screenwriter struggling to undertake a project involving the big screen
adaptation of a novel titled The Orchid Thief.
Perhaps a more
streamlined adaptation of the novel should have been in order, as there does seem to be a few characters and side issues that could have been excised without losing the integrity of the overall story.