Sentences with phrase «also directed adaptations»

The hugely prolific actor and film - maker James Franco started his career on TV's Freaks and Geeks and has also directed adaptations of Faulkner and Steinbeck.

Not exact matches

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Hood's achievements also include writing and directing 2005's Tsotsi, an Oscar - winning adaptation of playwright Athol Fugard's only novel: a story of violence and redemption that many considered, well, unfilmable.

We need to take into account not only the direct impact of climate change, but also how people will respond to such change — the impact of adaptation.

For Ullrich and Thiel, the direct evidence of a rapid and complete adaptation to zero gravity in less than a minute begs the question as to whether previous cell changes measured after hours or days were also the result of an adaptation process.

She was also fortunate in working at the National Theater with Peter Gill in his stage adaptation of Faulkner's AS I LAY DYING; to play Masha in THREE SISTERS at the Greenwich Theater directed by Elijah Moshinsky; and the lead in the LULU PLAYS by Wedekind at the Almeida Theater.

Deadline Hollywood reports some doubleplusgood news — Paul Greengrass is set to direct an adaptation of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty - Four (also known as 1984, or Pyramid - Eyeball - Bootheel - Oceana Flag for proles raised on Emoji newspeak).

The company is also in production on Paul Thomas Anderson's untitled new period film starring Daniel Day - Lewis and is developing the film adaptation of Maria Semple's WHERE»D YOU GO, BERNADETTE, to be directed by Richard Linklater.

The underrated madman behind The Grey, Smokin» Aces, and the wildly underrated The A-Team is still attached to direct Bad Boys For Life (the third Bad Boys movie), but he's also written the most recent version of the Uncharted video game adaptation and is planning to tiptoe on some sacred ground with a remake of The Raid.

Peter Weir (The Truman Show, Master and Commander), who also directed Ford to success a year before in the Best Picture - nominated Witness, directs this Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver, Affliction) adaptation of the Paul Theroux novel, casting Ford as Allie Fox, a disgruntled American inventor who gets so pissed off at the loss of what he believes is a dying America, he decides to pack up his bags and family, taking them to the rain forests of South America to live a life away from civilization, and the threat of nuclear annihilation he believes is imminent.

The adaptation, directed by Francis Lawrence (who also made the underrated Constantine):

** / **** Image B - Sound C + starring Robert De Niro, Michael Moriarty, Vincent Gardenia screenplay by Mark Harris, based on his novel directed by John Hancock by Walter Chaw Almost fatally hamstrung by an appalling score by Stephen Lawrence, John D. Hancock's Bang the Drum Slowly is a character - driven adaptation of a Mick Harris's novel (Harris also wrote the screenplay) that evokes the odd twilit detachment of professional sports in general and baseball in particular with a tale made suddenly popular in 1973 by the success of Brian's Song.

Also, when Thorne was still a part of the project, Joseph Gordon - Levitt was also involved in the creative process, and he had planned to direct and star in the eventual adaptatAlso, when Thorne was still a part of the project, Joseph Gordon - Levitt was also involved in the creative process, and he had planned to direct and star in the eventual adaptatalso involved in the creative process, and he had planned to direct and star in the eventual adaptation.

My Old Lady: Ringed with darkness though it is, this adaptation of an Israel Horowitz play (he also wrote and directed the film) is the kind of show you slip into as comfortably as a pair of old slippers.

Cooper is also in an untitled project set about the super-competitive restaurant biz, from John Wells, who directed the film adaptation of August: Osage County.

He was hired to write Clint Eastwood's «J. Edgar» and he also wrote an adaptation of Tom Wolfe «s book «The Electric Kool - Aid Acid Test» for Gus Van Sant to direct which hasn't been made yet.

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.

Webb, whose feature film credits also include «(500) Days of Summer,» will also serve as executive producer on CBS's upcoming adaptation of the Bradley Cooper feature «Limitless» as well as The CW's «Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,» both of which he directed the pilots for.

Besides directing the film, Serkis will also voice the character of bear Baloo in the adaptation of author Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book.

Rob Marshall, who's known for directing the 2002 Oscar - winning film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical, «Chicago,» also helmed the movie version of «Into the Woods.»

He's working on a Miles Davis biopic with Don Cheadle, he's attached to helm the crime drama Chicagoland, and he's also set to direct an adaptation of the non-fiction book Storming Las Vegas.

It's no surprise that his adaptation of Roth's novel is magnificently written, but he also shows a tremendous talent for directing as well, creating something that really feels timeless.

He also toiled on the sadly defunct TV adaptation of Jonathan Franzen «s «The Corrections» and further back directed a single episode of «Saturday Night Live,» as well as a half - hour short, «Conrad & Butler Take a Vacation» in 2000, which stars John Lehr and Baumbach regular Carlos Jacott (who pops up on TV most frequently these days).

Justin is also developing several projects including the screen version of the Daphne du Maurier novel, Jamaica Inn, for Focus Films, he is writing the adaptation for the multi-award winning novel, The Tenderness of Wolves, for Pink Sands Films / Film 4, which he will also direct, and he is attached to the Ron Bass script, The Godmother, with Unanimous Pictures producing, based on the novel by Carrie Adams.

He has also signed up to appear as Doctor Dolittle in a forthcoming adaptation of the Hugh Lofting character, with Stephen Gaghan on directing duties.

Replacing Friedman and Charno was Steven E. de Souza, who had worked with producer Lawrence Gordon on several projects and had also written and directed video game adaptation Street Fighter.

Written and directed by Simon Rumley (Club Le Monde, The Truth Game), and powered by a meticulously constructed sense of atmospheric dread, The Living and the Dead recalls claustrophobic thrillers like William Friedkin's Bug, and certainly Rob Reiner's adaptation of Stephen King's Misery, but also something like Brad Anderson's Session 9.

It also stars Chloe Grace Moretz, Nicholas Hoult, Christina Hendricks, Tye Sheridan and Corey Stoll, and was directed by Gilles Paquet - Brenner from his adaptation.

One of the reasons that Prince Caspian works so well is that the creative team [writers Stephen McFeely, Christopher Markus and Andrew Adamson, who also directed] took the key elements of the story and built an epic tale around them without feeling the need to be slavish in their adaptation.

All three of those films are also adaptations of novels, but Ivory directed them from adaptations by other screenwriters (all were nominated for Oscars, and the latter two won).

Mr. Cuarón, whose most recent film was the moving and irrepressible teenage sex comedy «Y Tu Mamá También,» may be the perfect man for the job, though parents worried about an unrated, sexually explicit «Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban» should remember that Mr. Cuarón also directed a superb adaptation of «The Little Princess.»

Denzel Washington directs and stars in the film adaptation of the play, and he's also brought his fellow stage star Viola Davis to reprise her role in the film.

Director Tate Taylor also knows his way around a literary adaptation, having directed The Help, adapted from Kathryn Stockett's novel of the same title.

Leitch is also on deck to direct an adaptation of the 2016 video game Tom Clancy's The Division, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Jessica Chastain.

While French auteur Benoit Jacquot recently remade Chase's 1945 novel Eva starring Isabelle Huppert, Kino Lorber resurrects his first adaptation (and one of his more bizarrely plotted endeavors) with No Orchids For Miss Blandish, which was directed by St. John Legh Clowes in 1948 (interestingly, Patrice Chereau's 1975 film debut, Flesh of the Orchid, starring Charlotte Rampling and Simone Signoret, was Chase's follow - up to this film, a title which will also be recuperated in 2018 thanks to an upcoming restoration screening in the COLCOA line - up).

Written by Matt Charman and directed by Kevin MacDonald, «Strange New Things» is an adaptation of Michel Faber's «The Book of Strange New Things,» a novel about an English man of faith who ends up also being a man in space; Brian Eno is providing the score.

San Andreas director Brad Peyton is already set to direct a movie version of the old Rampage arcade game, but now Deadline is reporting that he has also signed on to helm an adaptation of the Just Cause video game series with Aquaman «s Jason Momoa in the lead.

The flagship of the Festival, section Oficial Fantàstic, presents some of the most eagerly awaited movies of the year, such as Only God Forgives by Nicolas Winding Refn - director of Valhalla Rising and Drive; Jim Jarmusch's latest film Only Lovers Left Alive, an eternal love story between two vampires; A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swann III, a surrealist comedy by the hand of Roman Coppola; The Congress, a spectacular adaptation of Stanislaw Lem directed by Ari Folman - responsible for Vals with Bashir -, that combines animation with a science - fiction story starring Robin Wright and Harvey Keitel; Sitges 2013 will also represent the return of Kiyoshi Kurosawa to the fantastique genre with Real.

And finally, the site also report that Juan Carlos Medina, who made some waves at TIFF last year with «Painless,» will direct an adaptation of Peter Ackroyd «s «Dan Leno And The Limehouse Golem,» which has a script from «Kick - Ass» and «X-Men: First Class» writer Jane Goldman.

The play's successful two year run led to a 1930 big screen adaptation directed by James Whale and starring Colin Clive — two legends of cinema who also collaborated on FRANKENSTEIN and BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN.

But his first into production is likely to be «The Maze Runner,» a young adult adaptation that's gearing up at Fox, set for release next spring, though he also did a polish on the Wally Pfister - directed sci - fi actioner «Transcendence,» which will follow soon after.

Atwell, meanwhile, will also soon appear as Cinderella's mother in a new version of the classic fairytale directed by Kenneth Branagh, and is currently filming Testament of Youth, a BBC Films adaptation of Vera Brittain's devastating first world war memoir which also stars Alicia Vikander, Dominic West and Emily Watson.

This adaptation of one of Shakespeare's lesser - known plays boasts a strong cast including Ralph Fiennes (who also makes his directing debut), Gerard Butler, Vanessa Redgrave, Brian Cox, Jessica Chastain, and James Nesbit.

Kenneth Branagh stars as Agatha Christie's master detective, Hercule Poirot, and also directs an all - star cast — Michelle Pfeiffer, Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Daisy Ridley, Josh Gad, Judi Dench, Leslie Odom Jr., etc. — in the latest adaptation of the classic train - bound mystery.

Vaughn has been teasing a sequel to Kingsman but also has potential directing for the adaptation of Mark Millar's Superior.

Juan Antonio Bayona directed adaptation of Patrick Ness children's book also starring Felicity Jones

«Fences» was revived on Broadway in 2010 and several members of that cast reprise their roles in the movie adaptation, including Denzel Washington (who also directs) and Viola Davis.

(which he also directed) has not had a screen credit for seven years, but thanks in part to a successful Kickstarter campaign he has returned with an adaptation of his 2005 stage play

Up in the Air (R for profanity and sexuality) Jason Reitman directs this screen adaptation of Walter Kirn's best seller about a peripatetic hatchet man (George Clooney) for a downsizing corporation who suddenly finds himself grounded just when he's on the brink of accumulating ten million frequent flyer miles and right after he's also fallen for a like - minded traveler (Vera Farmiga).

Nagy is also at work on an adaptation of Patricia Cornwell's Postmortem, which she's also planning to direct.