Sentences with phrase «as direct adaptations»

The specific forms of religion need not be seen as direct adaptations for tribal cohesion.

Not exact matches

Now, DuVernay is busy making history again as the first black woman to direct a movie with a $ 100 million budget: Disney's A Wrinkle in Time adaptation.

Religion with culture may arise as a direct consequence of a large complex brain and not as an adaptation for survival.

My two adaptations were to add candied walnuts and to add two of the bananas chopped, with the third mashed as directed.

«As the story goes with exercise - induced changes in strength, neural adaptations are contributing first with muscle growth playing a more prominent role in the latter portion of a training program: however, there is little direct evidence that this is actually true in an adult partaking in a resistance training program,» said Dr. Jeremy Loenneke, senior author of the Muscle & Nerve article.

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.

-- 7) Forest models for Montana that account for changes in both climate and resulting vegetation distribution and patterns; 8) Models that account for interactions and feedbacks in climate - related impacts to forests (e.g., changes in mortality from both direct increases in warming and increased fire risk as a result of warming); 9) Systems thinking and modeling regarding climate effects on understory vegetation and interactions with forest trees; 10) Discussion of climate effects on urban forests and impacts to cityscapes and livability; 11) Monitoring and time - series data to inform adaptive management efforts (i.e., to determine outcome of a management action and, based on that outcome, chart future course of action); 12) Detailed decision support systems to provide guidance for managing for adaptation.

As much as I wanted to enjoy this, with Jack Bender's directing credentials and being an adaptation of a Steven King novel, it does disappoinAs much as I wanted to enjoy this, with Jack Bender's directing credentials and being an adaptation of a Steven King novel, it does disappoinas I wanted to enjoy this, with Jack Bender's directing credentials and being an adaptation of a Steven King novel, it does disappoint.

With journalist Jeffrey E. Stern, they wrote a surprisingly visceral and nuanced book, and now they're starring as themselves in the film adaptation directed by Clint Eastwood.

Francis Ford Coppola wrote the adaptation, Jack Clayton directed, and the film starred Robert Redford as Jay Gatsby, Mia Farrow as Daisy Buchanan, Bruce Dern as Tom Buchanan, and Sam Waterston as Nick Carraway.

Lewis starred as Henry VIII opposite Mark Rylance in WOLF HALL, the critically acclaimed BBC Two / Masterpiece Theater six - part television miniseries adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Booker - Prize winning novels, directed by BAFTA - winning Peter Kosminsky.

As an uberfan of the so - bad - it's - good masterpiece The Room and a solid admirer of The Disaster Artist, The Room co-star Greg Sestero's tell - all book about the making of mysterious vampiric figure Tommy Wiseau's «Tennessee Williams style melodrama as told by an alien who has apparently never seen normal human beings interact» drama - turned - dark - comedy - after - initial - audience - reactions - full - of - howling - laughter, I was a bit reserved in my excitement when I found out that James Franco was going to direct the film adaptation, as well as portraying Wiseau himselAs an uberfan of the so - bad - it's - good masterpiece The Room and a solid admirer of The Disaster Artist, The Room co-star Greg Sestero's tell - all book about the making of mysterious vampiric figure Tommy Wiseau's «Tennessee Williams style melodrama as told by an alien who has apparently never seen normal human beings interact» drama - turned - dark - comedy - after - initial - audience - reactions - full - of - howling - laughter, I was a bit reserved in my excitement when I found out that James Franco was going to direct the film adaptation, as well as portraying Wiseau himselas told by an alien who has apparently never seen normal human beings interact» drama - turned - dark - comedy - after - initial - audience - reactions - full - of - howling - laughter, I was a bit reserved in my excitement when I found out that James Franco was going to direct the film adaptation, as well as portraying Wiseau himselas well as portraying Wiseau himselas portraying Wiseau himself.

In 2011, Handler appeared as Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein in HBO's all - star adaptation of TOO BIG TO FAIL, directed by Curtis Hanson.

Written (with Jean - Claude Grumberg and Karim Boukercha) and directed by Academy Award winner Costa - Gavras (Z, Missing), this adaptation of Stéphane Osmont's book Le Capital follows a ruthless executive Marc Tourneuil (Gad Elmaleh) as he climbs the corporate ladder of France's Phenix Bank.

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.

Heat Vision reported on Wednesday that he plans on directing an adaptation of the TV series The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. For those unable to watch it when it aired between 1964 and 1968, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. follows two secret agents — one American and one Russian — as they work for U.N.C.L.E. (the United Network Command for Law Enforcement) against the evil organization THRUSH (Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity).

Friend's first professional role was opposite Johnny Depp and John Malkovich in THE LIBERTINE, followed by his role as Mr. Wickham in the 2005 adaptation of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE with Keira Knightley, and directed by Joe Wright.

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).

At the moment a direct movie adaptation of the comic can't be made by any film studio due to rights issues; several major characters who appear in the comic (including Hawkeye and the Incredible Hulk) are part of Marvel's Avengers film franchise, and therefore aren't available to be used as part of the X-Men movie franchise.

Josh Trank directs the Marvel Comics adaptation, starring Miles Teller as Reed Richards / Mr. Fantastic, Kate Mara as Sue Storm / Invisible Woman, Michael B. Jordan as Johnny Storm / Human Torch, Jamie Bell as Ben Grimm / The Thing, and Toby Kebbell as Victor Domashev.

Sossamon and Ed Burns are already aboard the horror adaptation — about terminal, clairvoyant phone messages - which is being directed by Eric Valette in Atlanta as you read this.

Even as Fifty Shades of Grey was being released to theaters this past February, we knew that director Sam Taylor - Johnson wasn't likely to be back to direct the adaptation of the sequel novel, Fifty Shades Darker.

Ready Player One is a novel which loves»80s pop culture, and as you're probably aware, Steven Spielberg is a big part of»80s (and»70s, and»90s, and» 00s) pop culture — so when it was announced that he would direct the adaptation of Ready Player One, which takes place in a virtual reality simulation called the OASIS, the question as to whether he would reference his own films was brought to light.

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.

Michael Fassbender, one of Hollywood's A-list, heads the cast which includes such luminaries as Marion Cotillard (who co-starred with him in last year's Macbeth, directed equally by Kurzel), Brendan Gleeson and Jeremy Irons, giving the piece a built - in pedigree unlike almost any other video game adaptation in history.

Josh Boone is still stated as both the film's writer and director, but will be directing Samuel L. Jackson in the Stephen King adaptation of The Revival next.

Tangents aside, Big Hero 6, directed by Don Hall and Chris Williams, is an adaptation of a little known Marvel comic, about a 14 - year - old boy called Hiro (spectacularly mispronounced as «Hero» by seemingly everyone, bar one character in the film), a total robotics prodigy, with genius level intellect, who participates in underground robot fighting.

Before he was able to direct the adaptation, Gans hounded Konami for five years before he was given the film rights, even going so far as to send them an audition tape to explain his love for the series.

Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland, Gangster Squad) has signed on to direct a big screen adaptation of the long - running police reality series COPS, in what is being described as «an edgy narrative with a buddy comedy bent on the order of a Lethal Weapon.»

«We Need to Talk About Kevin» is one of the most beautifully bleak psychological fake - outs the cinema's given us in years, as Lynne Ramsay («Ratcatcher,» «Morvern Callar «-RRB- directs an adaptation of Lionel Shriver «s 2003 novel.

Spielberg is reportedly directing a film version of Roald Dahl's children's book «The BFG» as well as a movie adaptation of Ernest Cline's science fiction book «Ready Player One.»

The tale of a futuristic Chicago with a society divided into factions is based on Veronica Roth's trilogy, and the adaptation of the third, Allegiant had been planned as two movies, 2016's Allegiant and then Ascendant, taking aim at a release this year with Lee Toland Krieger attached to direct.

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.

The latest adaptation of a Gillian Flynn thriller, written and directed by Gilles Paquet - Brenner, hits screens starring Charlize Theron as Libby Day, tormented by what happened to her family decades before.

The move toward the directing chair comes at a particularly prolific time for Jordan as an actor: He recently wrapped HBO's adaptation of the cautionary Ray Bradbury classic Fahrenheit 451 alongside Michael Shannon, as well as the Coogler - directed Black Panther for Marvel, opposite Chadwick Boseman.

With Julia Roberts already cast as Auggie's mother, Owen Wilson is now in talks to play Pullman's father in the big screen adaptation directed by Perks Of Being A Wallflower author / director Stephen Chbosky.

He is attached to star in a remake of «The Thomas Crown Affair» for MGM, as well as the adaptation of «Just Mercy» which has «Short Term 12» helmer Destin Cretton directing.

But this adaptation of Travel Channel host Marcus Sakey's second novel barely made the big screen last month day and date with Video On Demand, was hammered by critics, and today makes a hasty trip to Blu - ray and DVD as practically direct - to - video fare.

Now, the fourth e-book within the sequence, The Girl within the Spider's Web, will obtain its personal adaptation directed by way of Fede Alvarez and starring Claire Foy as Salander.

The lion's share of the credit should rightfully go to Tom Tykwer, who not only directs in gorgeous fashion, he co-wrote the very ambitious screenplay adaptation and contributed to the gorgeous score, as he has done for all of his films.

Ava DuVernay's adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's kid - lit fantasy classic not only marks a step forward for diversity — with the film, DuVernay becomes the first woman of color to direct a $ 100 million blockbuster — but for DuVernay as an artist.

The actor's hyphenate debut, Fiennes's adaptation of Shakespeare's Coriolanus is a curio, to be sure: It isn't so much directed as cobbled together from the source and fed through CNN - style reportage of armed fighting in the Balkans.

The 34 - year - old actor stars as Thomas McGregor in the new live action / CGI comedy directed by Will Gluck, but Gleeson has admitted filming the adaptation of the beloved Beatrix Potter character was more painful than he anticipated.

If you don't know the man by name, then you surely know him by his work: he directed the movie - adaptation of 30 Days of Night several years back, the indie - gem Hard Candy, as well as episodes of (the incredible) Hannibal, and American Gods.

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.

The plot, from the book by John Le Carré, may seem difficult to believe, but with Hossein Amini's adaptation of the le Carré novel of the same name, directed smartly by Susanna White, we in the theater audience would pronounce the at - first incredible story as one that slides right over our natural, cynical resistance.

... Because Joe Wright, who directed Ronan in «Atonement» and «Hanna», has emerged as the frontrunner to direct the film adaptation of the E.L James book, according to THR.

A number of other major restorations will have their World Premieres at the Festival: Carol Reed's atmospheric Graham Greene adaptation of OUR MAN IN HAVANA (1959), set in Cuba at the start of the Cold War, makes timely viewing as US / Cuba relations thaw; Ken Russell's reworking of D.H. Lawrence scandalous classic WOMEN IN LOVE (1970) stars Oliver Reed, Alan Bates and Glenda Jackson and shows two couple's contrasting searches for love, and was restored by the BFI National Archive working alongside cinematographer Billy Williams; A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS (1966) is directed by Fred Zinnemann from a script by great British screenwriter, Robert Bolt from Bolt's play about Sir Thomas More, a perfect companion piece to Wolf Hall; Henry Fonda stars in the ripe - for - discovery WARLOCK (1959), a seething study of vengeance and repressed sexuality in a Utah mining outpost; and Bryan Forbes» THE RAGING MOON (1971) starring Malcolm McDowell and Nanette Newman in a tender story between two young people in wheelchairs which was ahead of its time in its attempts to change attitudes to disability.

Now Jason Reitman — whose liberal father, Ivan, directed such Hollywood blockbusters as Stripes and Ghostbusters — has made his feature - length directorial debut with an adaptation of Buckley's novel.

Since Brian DePalma's sublime 1976 original, an underrated direct - to - TV sequel The Rage: Carrie 2 as well as an ill - fated 2002 TV movie adaptation have both attempted to bring new insights to King's primal story of teen shame, repressed violence and pubescent horror.