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As the title suggests, the action - horror - romance - comedy mashup drops the characters from Jane Austen's classic novel into a world menaced by the walking dead.

Not exact matches

1:10 Senior editor Mark Bauerlein explains how classic hardboiled detective novels turn boys into men.

Author Chuck Palahniuk plans to revisit Tyler Durden and the whole gang in an upcoming graphic novel that takes place 10 years after the events of Fight Club, his novel which David Fincher later adapted into the now - classic film.

In 1999 Alan Moore created The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen which pulled characters from a number of classic (and public domain) novels and placed them together as a sort of super team (this innovative series was scrubbed into an abysmally average 2003 film).

You see, the devil is a sneaky enemy willing to use anything to draw naive church goers into the fiery gates of heck (sorry for the strong language, but this is serious): Harry Potter novels; the Smurfs; classic rock records that unveil hidden messages when played backwards; non-Harvest-related Halloween events; that disrespectful little jerk Bart Simpson.

This cookbook offers recipes for dozens of classic treats like oatmeal cookies, carrot cake and pecan pie — but often with novel twists: pineapple and coconut swirl through the carrot cake, the pecan pie takes the form of a brownie and the oatmeal cookies are fashioned into «crisps.»

A young boy thrown into a alien world, forced to improvise to find his way and gain approval: Roald Dahl might as well have been talking about the career of Daniel Miguel Alves Gomes in Russia when he wrote his classic children's novel.

Montillo uses the classic novel Frankenstein as her starting point to explore the shady science and changing social mores that inspired Mary Shelley's 1818 tale, and folds details of Shelley's personal life into a broader history of early anatomists and alchemists.

«Lady Chatterley» (TBA): D.H. Lawrence's classic novel was famously made into a soft - porn flick in the 1980s with «Emmanuelle» star Sylvia Kristel.

Compare its plot to those of the classic Gothic novels and films in which a young, naïve woman marries a mysterious man, moves into his ancestral home where she is greeted by sinister domestic staff, and goes on to find clues that suggest a horrible family secret.

by Walter Chaw Steven Soderbergh's best film since sex, lies, and videotape (and the film most like it in theme and execution), Solaris is a moving, hypnotic adaptation of the classic Stanislaw Lem novel, which was first made into a film in 1972 by Andrei Tarkovsky.

Based the outstanding novel by William Peter Blatty, which was turned into the classic film directed by William Friedkin, THE EXORCIST has all the potential to be a great TV show, as it can explore the characters over time and have a very slow build up.

Based on Jack Finney's classic sci - fi novel «Invasion of the Body Snatchers», the film emphasises the tensions and lack of trust in the Malone family as an alien plot to turn all humans into emotionless, unfeeling «pod people» unfolds around them.

Special Features Ron Howard: Captain's Log - Follow the Director's Filmmaking Voyage Via Exclusive Production Photos and His Personal Twitter Feed Chris Hemsworth and Benjamin Walker Dive into Their Characters» Combative Rivalry Uncover the True Stories of Courage and Obsession That Inspired the Classic Novel «Moby Dick» Deleted and Extended Scenes and More!

And he is branching out, directing his first movie, «The Virginian» (based on the classic Western novel) for TNT and going into producing.

From the Studio: Rooted in the classic graphic novel series, Valerian and Laureline - visionary writer / director Luc Besson advances this iconic source material into a contemporary, unique and epic science fiction saga.

But in shades of The Shining, the classic Stephen King novel that was adapted into a film by Stanley Kubrick, the writer slowly begins to lose his marbles when unexplained occurrences begin to chip away at him.»

Jane Austen's classic novel Pride and Prejudice has been made into a movie.

Before you pour the bucket of pig's blood on me, I want to first say I'm well aware Silence is adapted from Shūsaku Endō's novel of the same name, which was also turned into a film in 1971 that received worldwide acclaim upon release (another Scorsese remake of an Asian cinema classic!).

Oscar Wilde's classic novel is turned into a schlock horror movie, totally engulfed by gloomy atmosphere and over-the-top filmmaking.

3:45 am (14th)-- TCM — Fahrenheit 451 François Truffaut's first foray in English - language film was this adaptation of Ray Bradbury's classic dystopian novel, following fireman (that is, book - burner) Montag as he comes into contact with a group of fugitives intent on preserving the knowledge in books even as the government tries to destroy them, and he begins to wonder if perhaps they are right.

Based on a 1865 classic Russian novel, Nikolai Leskov's Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, director William Oldroyd's film adaptation brings young femme fatale Katherine into 19th century England.

Film Adaption: His Girl Friday A brief look at the adaptation of the novel The Front Page into this classic screwball comedy.

«I, Frankenstein» is based on the graphic novel by Kevin Grevioux, and picks up where Mary Shelly's classic novel left off, and follows Dr. Frankenstein's creature (Eckhart) into a present day, gothic metropolis.

Learn how a classic novel gets turned into a motion picture with this DVD release.

Since then, the classic novel has been turned into a 1983 film starring Christopher Walken and 2002 television series.

Luckily, during the passage of Jules Verne's novel into a new era of computer animation, the classic story manages to maintain it's good, old - fashioned monster movie appeal.

Paul MacInnes: An adaptation of the Zola classic Thérèse Raquin that takes the original novel into strange new areas — not all of them good

That was the secret ingredient in Seth Grahame - Smith's bestselling mashup novel, which transformed the Jane Austen literary classic into a blood - stained farce.

MYSTERIES OF LISBON By Tony Pipolo Raúl Ruiz turns a classic 19th - century novel into a 21st - century masterpiece

Chilean - born Ruiz is a director whose love of storytelling and narrative play is often more engaging than the films themselves but with Mysteries of Lisbon, an epic based on a classic Portuguese novel (one yet untranslated into English), his engagement with the characters and their defining stories guides his direction, and his graceful camerawork and unerring eye for images both classical (like paintings in a cinematic frame) and fluid (his camera moves with purpose and grace) are in the service of the trajectories of the characters.

This literary event — taking place 55 years after the publication of To Kill a Mockingbird and about six months after Facing History published Teaching Mockingbird, its study guide to the novel — comes at a time when we have been diving deep into the themes of Lee's classic novel, both as a staff and with educators around the world.

«Dutch classic» 1947 novel translated into English for the first time; American Library Association announces winners of its Youth Media Awards; novelist Anuk Arudpragasam on articulating inner life; and other news.

With profound emotional insight, especially into the effects of a hidden war on mothers and families at home, The Yellow Birds is a groundbreaking novel about the costs of war that is destined to become a classic.

At first glance it seems as if Ullman, whose debut novel was the cult classic, The Bug, has moved into entirely new territory with By Blood.

Some companies are simply cutting up classic, royalty free novels into bite sized chunks, while others are taking modern novels, and just delivering a little bit at a time.

So goes a classic pickup line from Nathaniel (Nate) Piven, an up - and - coming literary star in Brooklyn whose relationships populate Adelle Waldman's The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. Reminiscent of classic realist novels from authors like Graham Greene or Henry James, this delightful debut jumps headfirst into the mind of one man, revealing what he really thinks about women, dating and success.

She has written multiple novels that draw from Austen's novels and Recency classics, and her latest is a fun tale of friendship and falling head - first into history.

A funny, old - fashioned novel with all the earmarks of a classic — endearingly quirky characters, fine dialogue, and a dog that gets into everything.

Homages to classic novels and authors have become de rigueur in the world of cozy mysteries, but Murder Most Austen by Tracy Kiely is a winner — especially because the author is obviously so well - versed in Austen's body of work, packing Austen allusions into her novel.

I wish Marvel had thrown more of its classic graphic novels into the Free 700 mix.

It is true that technically novels are difficult to crunch down into a few hours worth of movie, but feature films and novels both commonly endeavor to use the same sort of classic story arc — telling an entire story with a beginning, middle and end.

This short, ominous message accompanied by one of several quotes from classic survivalist novels was all the instruction I received before I was thrown headfirst into the cold and unforgiving landscape of The Long Dark, Hinterland Studio's new wilderness survival simulator currently in alpha testing.

Adapted from the classic Agatha Christie novels, The ABC Murders is an adventure and investigation game offering sharp - minded gamers the chance to step into the shoes of Hercule Poirot.

2) A Brooklyn publisher has brought one ofyour classic novels back into print, for a new generation of guys and girls in flannel shirts, scruffy beards, and retro glasses.

A naive story, it recalls children's classics such as Tove Jansson's Moomin (1945 — 70) books or Richard Adams's novel Watership Down (1972), which were also made into animations.

The unsealing of Harper Lee's will this week in Alabama yielded few insights into the life of the beloved author of the American classic novel «To Kill a Mockingbird,» according to a post on the website of Androvett Legal Media & Marketing.