Sentences with phrase «beloved novel»

As the title of one of the new century's most beloved novels reminds us, complexity can exist where we see only the absence of complication.

Just like every other beloved novel that eventually gets a film adaptation, there will always be differences and changes.

J.R.R. Tolkien, the architect of Middle - earth and the author of beloved novels like The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, both of which were famously adapted into live - action film trilogies, will provide the source material for yet another movie.

(Actually he's been telegraphed, as he was in the widely beloved novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs.)

In one fail swoop, the «Hannibal» honcho solidifies his legacy, gives Starz a new top - shelf series, and turns Gaiman's most beloved novel into an eruptive treatise on creative power and belief.

This may not be as beloved a novel as The History of Love, but it will leave you wondering where Krauss will go next.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies comes from author Seth Grahame - Smith's idea of taking Jane Austin's beloved novel Pride & Prejudice and inserting a zombie apocalypse in - between our favorite moments with Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy.

Over in France, writer, director and lead actor Albert Dupontel has attempted just that, to convert the nearly 600 - page beloved novel See You Up There (Au Revoir La - Haut) into a 2 hour comedic drama, an endeavour that has resulted in a dysfunctional but heavily unfocused adaptation.

Both took beloved novels and used them as inspiration, rather than paint by numbers, to build their own haunting worlds.

It's a buddy movie too, as Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) takes demanding author PL Travers under his wing to help her get through the trauma of beloved novel Mary Poppins being adapted for the screen.

From the director of Four Weddings And A Funeral comes this fresh, absorbing film adaptation of Charles Dickens» beloved novel starring Helena Bonham Carter and Ralph Fiennes.

Emma By Jane Austen Penguin • $ 17 • ISBN 9780143107712 This Penguin Classics Deluxe edition honors the 200th anniversary of the original publication of Jane Austen's beloved novel in 1815.

Hollywood's had a long history with botched adaptations of beloved novels, but from here it looks like fans of Jonathan Franzen «s acclaimed book The Corrections have nothing to worry about.

- One of the most beloved novels of our time, Richard Adams's «Watership Down» takes us to a world we have never truly seen: to the remarkable life that teems in the fields, forests and riverbanks far beyond our cities and towns.

Legend has it that author Ken Kesey hated the big - screen adaptation of his beloved novel so much that he refused to watch it.

All of us purists need to set aside our doilies and our carpet bags for a hot second to really watch this adaption of our beloved novel.

From the beloved novels by Michael Bond and producer David Heyman (HARRY POTTER), PADDINGTON tells the story of the comic misadventures of a young Peruvian bear (voiced by Ben Whishaw) who travels to the city in search of a home.

An Unexpected Journey is almost certain to avoid the maligning that The Phantom Menace drew, with Jackson not having to meet expectations nearly as tall while also having a beloved novel to help meet them.

The film is based on the beloved novel Ciudades Desiertas by Jose Agustin and stars Gael Garcia Bernal and Veronica Echegui.

The most important part of all of the pieces which must come together to successfully transform one of the most popular and beloved novels of all time to the big screen is the screenplay and the choices the writer makes.

From the beloved novels by Michael Bond and producer David Heyman (HARRY POTTER), PADDINGTON tells the story of the comic misadventures of a young Peruvian bear (voiced by Firth) who travels to the city in search of a home.

After regaling the adoring public for a decade, the screen incarnations of the beloved novels bow out with the second part in the duo of final films, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2.

From the beloved novels by Michael Bond and producer David Heyman (HARRY POTTER), PADDINGTON tells the story of the comic misadventures of a young Peruvian bear (voiced by Colin Firth) who travels to the city in search of a home.

A rare screen adaptation of a beloved novel that maintains the emotional and dramatic power of the original while establishing its own distinctive approach to the story, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) is an underdog masterpiece.

Adapting a much - beloved novel to the big screen is tricky business, but it always helps if the book's fanbase is made up of teen girls.

John Lee Hancock is directing this story about how Mary Poppins author P.L. Travers reluctantly let Disney adapt her beloved novel.

For those who aren't aware of this one, Room is an adaptation of the beloved novel by Emma Donoghue, who also penned the screenplay.

Directed by Ava DuVernay from a screenplay by Oscar - winner Jennifer Lee based upon the beloved novel by Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time stars: two - time Academy Award nominee Oprah Winfrey, Oscar and Emmy winner Reese Witherspoon, Emmy nominee Mindy Kaling, Gugu Mbatha - Raw, Michael Pe?a and introducing Storm Reid, with two - time Emmy winner Zach Galifianakis and Emmy nominee Chris Pine.

When Joe Wright condensed the beloved novel into a cinematic masterpiece starring Keria Knightly, he did so by infusing the best parts of the book together and cutting out all the rest.

In the end, this take on «Madding Crowd» is pretty and well - done and nice, without ever feeling like an essential version of a beloved novel.

There are two adaptations of Rudyard Kipling's beloved novel of nature - red - in - tooth - and - claw on their way, and this is the one we're slightly less keen on (the second, darker version directed by Andy Serkis isn't out until 2017).

During the production, Travers reflects on her childhood and her relationship with her loving father, played by Colin Farrell, intertwining the magic of her beloved novel and the guilt of a troubled past.

Directed by Emmy (R) winner and Oscar (R) and Golden Globe (R) nominee Ava DuVernay from a screenplay by Oscar winner Jennifer Lee based upon the beloved novel by Madeleine L'Engle, «A Wrinkle in Time» stars: two - time Academy Award (R) nominee Oprah Winfrey, Oscar and Emmy winner Reese Witherspoon, Emmy nominee Mindy Kaling, Gugu Mbatha - Raw, Michael Peňa and introducing Storm Reid, with two - time Emmy winner Zach Galifianakis and Emmy nominee Chris Pine.

After a string of ill - fated productions, Francis Ford Coppola channeled his feelings of self - doubt in this deeply personal take on S. E. Hinton's beloved novel.

To say that this version of Agatha Christie's beloved novel «Murder on the Orient Express» surpasses the 1974 film (at least in my eyes) would be an understatement.

A beloved novel gets absolutely slaughtered with A Wrinkle in Time, a sure contender for one of 2018's worst movies, and an embarrassment for the great talents involved.

An Unexpected Journey avoided The Phantom Menace - type maligning, with Jackson having a beloved novel to help meet expectations not nearly as tall.

Based on the beloved novel by John Green, this film is so squarely slanted toward teen girls that it is likely to annoy everyone else.

Perri Nemiroff and Scott Mantz discuss the long - awaited, potentially divisive adaptation of Ernest Cline's beloved novel.

But there's a sense of symmetry to Stuhlbarg's latest triumph — certain to bring him awards - season heat — as the quietly attentive father of an intelligent teen, Elio (Timothée Chalamet), in director Luca Guadagnino's Call Me by Your Name, a euphorically generous, sun - dappled gay romance set in 1983 Italy and based on the beloved novel by André Aciman.

Sony Pictures Classics has released the first trailer for Call Me by Your Name, Luca Guadagnino's sumptuous adaptation of André Aciman's beloved novel, about a teenage boy's love affair with an older man one summer in Italy.

The last time the beloved novel about a family of four sisters on the cusp of womanhood was adapted for the screen was the 1994 Oscar - nominated film starring Winona Ryder as Jo and Susan Sarandon as Marmee.

13 Reasons Why Production Designer Diane Lederman talks to Awards Daily about visualizing the world created by Jay Asher's beloved novel.

At age 7, she took on the title role in «Matilda,» the super-powered whiz kid of Roald Dahl's beloved novel.

The film, an adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's beloved novel, is directed by Ava DuVernay (from a screenplay by FROZEN's Jennifer Lee), whose incredible vision is brought to life by cast members in attendance Oprah Winfrey (Mrs. Which), Reese Witherspoon (Mrs. Whatsit), Mindy Kaling (Mrs.. Who), Chris Pine (Dr. Alex Murry) and newcomer Storm Reid (Meg).