Sentences with phrase «book adaptions»

The popular franchise has already seen anime and comic book adaptions, but we can't wait to see how Dante's sword sorcery translates to the big screen.

The movie «Kick - Ass» is easily one of the best comic book adaptions in the last few years.

Seemingly a match made in Virtual Reality heaven, we get one of the premier fantasy filmmakers joining forces with a screenwriter (Zak Penn) who has had success with comic book adaptions, and a bestselling first novel from a geeky author.

The native New Yorker is no stranger to comic book adaptions, playing Amanda Waller in 2011's Green Lantern and Linda Lake in CBS's 1990s The Flash series.

What makes X-Men better than other comic book adaptions (say, The Phantom or Punisher) is that the film style is very loyal to comic book styles.

The words being typed out as the movie played out screamed «book adaption», making the whole movie feel slightly cheap.

Director Ayer and cast elevate this twisted comic book adaption higher than most superhero flicks despite its run - of - the - mill plot.

Phum Baitang was home to Angelina Jolie and her family for 4 months in 2015/16 while directing the book adaption «First they killed my father».

Not exact matches

In «The Martian,» an adaption of Andy Weir's book of the same name, we follow Astronaut Mark Watney as he is stranded alone on Mars and must survive on the planet until NASA can mount a rescue (which would take years).

But we're talking about rewriting the Anne of Green Gables book, we're talking about a miniseries adaption of the book.

Even if some parts of the series aren't «true to the book» they are more true to the Anne Shirley and Marilla Cuthbert and Matthew Cuthbert characters than any other adaption so far.

And yet it is also an adaption from the book.

During Lent, I've been rewatching the magnificent 1981 BBC production of Brideshead Revisited — the best TV adaption ever made of a great novel, in part because of the stunning cast but in larger part because Evelyn Waugh's book is the screenplay.

Sir Ben Kingsley, the closest thing humanity has to an actual panther, will voice Bagheera in Jon Favreau's upcoming live - action adaption of Jungle Book for Disney.

Officials at the Abbey, by the way, refused to allow any filming of the movie adaption on their premises because they could not «commend or endorse the contentious and wayward religious and historic suggestions made in the book.»

I saw a recipe in my Blendtec recipe book here, so I created an adaption for it.

I was inspired to create this adaption of a roast chicken dinner from Tyler Florence's book, Dinner At My Place.

After I made them I realized that Heidi already wrote about them years ago, claiming they were her favorite cookie AND that David had included a recipe for an adaption in his latest book Ready for Dessert: My Best Recipes.

An adaption of a recipe in Dr. Nedley's book Depression the Way Out.

It's like reading a book and visualising what the individual character would look and act like, and having that illusion shattered when you see the the film adaption where the actor is not what you visualised... for example Christian Grey

This was exactly as i hoped another adaption of an Irvine Welsh novel would be after thoroughly enjoying both Trainspotting (film) and Ecstasy (book).

I know it was an adaption for the book and for the most part it was a well made adaption, but then it takes a wild turn for the worst.

A perfect adaption in my eyes of a recent and great monster of a book from SK.

What an excellent adaption to such an excellent book!!!

Academy Award ® nominee Benedict Cumberbatch is best known for playing the title role of Sherlock Holmes in Steven Moffatt and Mark Gattiss» adaption of the Conan Doyle books.

I am anxiously awaiting that film since I have heard it is a close adaption to the Timothy S. Susanin's book of the same title.

Everything about the movie is top - notch, from Scorsese's daring direction, to Nicholas Pileggi's hard - hitting script (an adaption of his book, «Wiseguy»), to the rock - influenced soundtrack, to some fantastic performances by Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, who won an Oscar for his portrayal of psychotic gangster Tommy DeVito.

What I am about to say applies not just to Harry Potter, but to other book to film adaptions, such as Lord of the Rings.

Over the years watching lots of films based on books, I have learned to look at any adaption in and of itself, and how well it is done as A MOVIE.

Chief among those questions is the most important one: whether the new boss will be the same as the old boss (The answer is left for the final movie or, if the unfortunate trend of splitting the final installment of adaptions of young - adult book series into two parts continues with this franchise, movies).

This one dips back further in Green's back catalog to a book he had written back in 2008, and the writers are also slated to dip back even further for their next project in adaption Green's very first novel, «Looking for Alaska».

HBO is the next network to churn out an adaption of a book about the dystopian futures after the successes of Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale and Amazon's The Man in the High Castle.

Iconic actor Michael Caine is set to join the cast of The Secret Service, which is a film adaption of a comic book.

Final Verdict: A good adaption of the book.

It was announced that Common will executive produce and star in «Black Samurai» a TV adaption of Marc Olden's 1974 book series, which inspired the 1977 film of the same name.

Though The Disaster Artist is nominally an adaption of the same - titled book by Wiseau's former roommate and co-star Greg Sestero and the critic and journalist Tom Bissell, the movie bears only faint traces of its characterization of the secretive, self - made filmmaker; the exclusion of any biographical details (many of which are now public knowledge) leaves yawning gaps in the script, which was written by the duo of Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber (500 Days Of Summer, The Spectacular Now, The Fault In Ours Stars, etc.).

The reboot is aiming to be a more faithful adaption of James O'Barr's original 1989 comic book of the same name and has been in development at Relativity Media with various directors and actors for nearly a decade.

For comic books fans concerned with faithful adaptions of their favorite titles, you'll have to be satisfied with a somewhat non-faithful version of Deadpool that never actually was, but maybe you always wish there had been.

This will be yet another live - action adaptions of a classic Disney story after 2014's Maleficent, 2015's Cinderella, 2016's The Jungle Book and their years Beauty and the Beast.

A faithful adaption of Marvel's comic book property in spirit if not in tone (we'll get to that in a bit), first - time feature director Tim Miller and producer / star Ryan Reynolds's long - in - gestation love - child is a unique, welcome entry into a genre about to explode in what some would argue is over-population.

hardly anyone reads books anymore, of COURSE most adaptions are going to be from comics.

Though Lionel Shriver has publicly worried that the adaption wouldn't take the same structure as the book, another quote from Reilly seems to indicate that it will, which makes this reader very happy.

Largely the success of Log Horizon is thanks to the fact it's digital edition is only excursively available to Book Walker and had the two anime adaptions airing at the same time.

By defining exactly how a screenwriter is going to approach the adaption of your book, you eliminate work for agents, studios and producers.

The books on it are cultural mainstays; even if we haven't exactly read each one, chances are that we've caught the trailer for the inevitable film adaption.

We do file conversion and adaption of the books for the publishers as well.

Just look at how many mediocre or downright bad licensed superhero games there were prior to Rocksteady's seminal Batman: Arkham Asylum, or how many bad book to film adaptions there are for every Blade Runner or Lord of the Rings?

The big draw, here, really is the fact that it's Middle - Earth and toddling around is a neat geek moment for any fan of either the books or the movies, albeit one already readily available in the Lego adaption of Lord of the Rings.

Starbreeze Studios» FPS adaption of the comic book of the same name drew praise for its atmosphere and attention to detail.

The original comic book game adaption released over a decade ago on the PS2, OG Xbox and PC before making its way to the Wii in 2009.