Sentences with phrase «directed the adaptation from»

Then again, It's highly likely that the movie version of the character will not be a direct adaptation from the comics (Cable's backstory is way too complicated) so maybe Kyle Chandler fits what the producers have in mind.

Broadway director Michael Mayer directed the adaptation from a script by Tony - winning playwright Stephen Karam.

Sam Taylor - Johnson directed the adaptation from a script by Kelly Marcel, Mark Bomback and Patrick Marber.

Not exact matches

Most of the rest of the formal parts of the mass are adaptations if not direct quotes from Paul's letters of the new testament.

-- 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.

The second film to be made from Woody Allen's successful stage comedy (following a 1969 feature starring Jackie Gleason), Don't Drink the Water is a made - for - television adaptation directed by and starring Allen himself.

Updated about three decades from Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan (the Irish writer's first stage hit), this frothy adaptation is set in the early 1930s on Italy's Amalfi coast, with no sign of poverty or fascism on the beautifully art - directed horizon.

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).

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.

Game of Thrones alum Richard Madden has signed on to appear in the Amazon sci - fi pilot Strange New Things, an adaptation of Michel Faber's The Book of Strange New Things, which is being directed by Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland) from a script by Matt Charman (Bridge of Spies).

, and the first directed by an African American filmmaker from a comic - book series adaptation (Meteor Man).

And he's already attached to direct at least the first part of Allegiant, the now obligatory two - part adaptation of the third book in the trilogy (taking a cue from the milking sensations of Harry Potter, Hunger Games and Twilight).

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.

Wisecracking Robert Downey Jr. in a (relatively) grounded real world setting was one thing, but a Viking god from space, played by a complete unknown and directed by a man best known for Shakespeare adaptations was quite another.

In a drastic, surprisingly smooth departure from his typical work directing major studio comedies, Adam McKay tackles the dense subject matter of The Big Short, a screen adaptation of Michael Lewis»

In a drastic, surprisingly smooth departure from his typical work directing major studio comedies, Adam McKay tackles the dense subject matter of The Big Short, a screen adaptation of Michael Lewis «best - selling book about the devastating financial collapse of the mid-aughts.

In a drastic, surprisingly smooth departure from his typical work directing major studio comedies, Adam McKay tackles the dense subject matter of The Big Short, a screen adaptation of Michael Lewis «best - selling book about the devastating financial collapse of the...

We recently got to chat with the lovely and talented Saoirse Ronan about her upcoming young adult adaptation «How I Live Now» (review here), which is kind of like what would have happened if Terrence Malick had directed «Red Dawn» (more from that interview soon).

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.

Dogme 95 co-founder Thomas Vinterberg (The Hunt) is in talks to direct an adaptation of the Thomas Hardy novel Far from the Madding Crowd.

The Belgian actor has the Thomas Vinterberg - directed adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic novel Far From The Madding Crowd coming down the pipeline, opposite Carey Mulligan and Juno Temple.

From the minute I heard M. Night Shyamalan was directing and writing this I knew this was going to be a summer crap - buster and screwed - up adaptation.

The movie adaptation from scripter Juliette Towhidi is directed at a slow pace by James Kent, or, let's say at the kind of deliberate momentum that pays due respect to the heroic actions of several of its participants.

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.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening December 23, 2011 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Adventures of Tintin (PG for violence, drunkenness and smoking) Steven Spielberg directs this animated adaptation of the classic comic book series about an intrepid young journalist who is abducted from Europe to Morocco where he escapes his kidnappers to embark on a perilous quest for hidden treasure.

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.

Ramin Bahrani (99 Homes), uniting with Shannon, directs this new adaptation from Ray Bradbury's seminal dystopian novel.

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.

It's quite possible that August: Osage County, the new film directed by John Wells from Tracy Letts» adaptation of his own play, is the quintessential Weinstein production, more so than we've seen in years.

The filmmaking team of Glenn Ficarra and John Requa direct, with the adaptation of the real Baker (named Kim Barker) memoir coming from Robert Carlock.

Now that the Doug Liman - directed version of The Three Musketeers from Warner Bros. has been well and truly back - burnered, there's nothing to stand in the way of world domination for Paul WS Anderson «s 3D action - adventure adaptation of the same material.

Schwentke directed the film from a script by Whiteout screenwriters Erich and Jon Hoeber, and the adaptation was produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian of Transformers.

A new clip has premiered from Lionsgate's The Hunger Games, the Gary Ross - directed adaptation in theaters March 23.

From a screenplay by Academy Award ® - winner Hayao Miyazaki, the English language version is directed by multiple Academy Award ® - winner Gary Rydstrom from a script adaptation by Karey Kirkpatrick (James and the Giant Peach, Chicken Run, Charlotte's Web) and features an all - star English voice cast including Gillian Anderson, Sarah Bolger, Beau Bridges, Jamie Lee Curtis, Bruce Dern, Isabelle Fuhrman, Christina Hendricks, Ron Howard, Chris Noth, Emily Osment, Aubrey Plaza, Charlie Saxton, Alex Wolff and Anton YelcFrom a screenplay by Academy Award ® - winner Hayao Miyazaki, the English language version is directed by multiple Academy Award ® - winner Gary Rydstrom from a script adaptation by Karey Kirkpatrick (James and the Giant Peach, Chicken Run, Charlotte's Web) and features an all - star English voice cast including Gillian Anderson, Sarah Bolger, Beau Bridges, Jamie Lee Curtis, Bruce Dern, Isabelle Fuhrman, Christina Hendricks, Ron Howard, Chris Noth, Emily Osment, Aubrey Plaza, Charlie Saxton, Alex Wolff and Anton Yelcfrom a script adaptation by Karey Kirkpatrick (James and the Giant Peach, Chicken Run, Charlotte's Web) and features an all - star English voice cast including Gillian Anderson, Sarah Bolger, Beau Bridges, Jamie Lee Curtis, Bruce Dern, Isabelle Fuhrman, Christina Hendricks, Ron Howard, Chris Noth, Emily Osment, Aubrey Plaza, Charlie Saxton, Alex Wolff and Anton Yelchin.

After directing the acclaimed documentaries Deliver Us From Evil and West of Memphis, Amy Berg is set to make her narrative helming debut with Every Secret Thing, a feature adaptation of Laura Lippman's 2004 mystery novel that will star Diane Lane, reports Variety.

«Tamara Drewe» (Sony), directed by Stephen Frears, has a strange and wonderful pedigree: an adaptation of the graphic novel (by Posy Simmonds) inspired by Thomas Hardy's «Far From the Madding Crowd» and whipped up with a light sex comedy froth by screenwriter Moira Buffini and the cast (headed by the Gemma Arterton as the gorgeous heroine with identity issues and Roger Allam as the philandering author who wants to bed her).

Former Royal Court Theatre head Dominic Cooke directed the adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel from the author's script.

«Macbeth» is a stark, ferocious adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy from «Snowtown» director Justin Kurzel, «Steve Jobs» is a punchy biopic of the Apple computer whizz from Danny Boyle and «The Light Between Oceans» is a gloomy melodrama directed by Derek Cianfrance of «Blue Valentine» fame.

The Merchant - Ivory adaptation of the E.M Forster novel, directed from a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, remains one of the finest of their collaborations.

Ullmnan, who both wrote and directed the adaptation, re-locates the setting from Sweden to the Irish countryside.

Directing from a solidly plotted script by Brian Helgeland, who isn't slavish to the original film (the film credits John Godey's novel but not the 1976 screenplay adaptation), he delivers a focused and refreshingly straightforward thriller that forgoes the usual high tech confusion and contrived high - concept twists so often laid in to surprise audiences.

Rebel In The Rye is written and will be directed by Strong from an adaptation of Kenneth Slawenski's biography, J.D. Salinger: A Life.

Never Go Back is the sequel to the adaptation of Jack Reacher (from 2012), and this film is directed by veteran American filmmaker Edward Zwick (of Glory, Legends of the Fall, Courage Under Fire, The Siege, The Last Samurai, Blood Diamond, Defiance, Love & Other Drugs and Pawn Sacrifice previously).

For the former will play an ex-Career victor from District 2 while the latter will play Gloss in the upcoming Francis Lawrence - directed adaptation of Suzanne Collins» novel.

In April, the four - time Oscar - winning director and producer signed on to direct the big - screen adaptation of The 15:17 to Paris — an adaptation of the novel The 15:17 to Paris: The True Story of a Terrorist, a Train, and Three American Heroes — which recounts the true - life events surrounding three American men who subdued an ISIS terrorist armed with an AK - 47 who was on a train from Amsterdam to Paris in 2015.

First up, a press release from Alcon Entertainment reveals that they've found the leads for their hopeful «Twilight» competition, «Beautiful Creatures,» an adaptation of the novels by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, which is being written and directed by Richard LaGravanese («P.S. I Love You «-RRB-.

Pete's Dragon director David Lowery is attached to direct a new live - action adaptation of Peter Pan from Disney.

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.

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).

Laura Hillenbrand's 2010 biography of Olympics runner and WWII prisoner of war Louis Zamperini (O'Connell, 300: Rise of an Empire) provides the basis for this war - time drama, directed by Angelina Jolie (In the Land of Blood and Honey), from an adaptation by the Coen Brothers (Inside Llewyn Davis, True Grit), along with Richard LaGravenese (Water for Elephants, P.S. I Love You) and William Nicholson (Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, Les Miserables).