Sentences with phrase «do direct adaptations»

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Followers of the movies probably have a good idea, too, but knowing what happens in this, the eighth and last film adaptation - the fourth straight directed by David Yates - doesn't lessen the wallop.

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.

In addition to Deadline reporting that Warner Bros. has selected Ben Affleck to direct an adaptation of Stephen King's The Stand (it doesn't seem like a done deal, but there's no mention of the previously attached Harry Potter team of Steve Kloves and David Yates), Deadline announced later in the week that Affleck would direct and co-star with best bud Matt Damon in a biopic about notorious Boston gangster Whitey Bulger.

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 disappoint.

Doing press in Los Angeles for the Andrew Niccol - directed «The Host,» Ronan talked briefly about her two American accents used in the adaptation, before noting that her lead role in «Grand Budapest Hotel» may just be a bit more natural.

Predominantly a comic actress - her breakthrough film was Nicholas Stoller's Forgetting Sarah Marshall in 2008 - she has done videogame adaptations (Max Payne), rom - coms (Friends with Benefits) and the stoner comedy Ted, directed by MacFarlane, opposite a flatulent, bong - smoking teddy bear.

Justin Kurzel directs this Shakespeare adaptation, following the sinister Scottish Lord who will do anything to become king.

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.

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.

These include Glassland starring Jack Reynor (Transformers, What Richard Did) and Toni Collette and directed by Gerard Barrett (Pilgrim Hill), and an adaptation of Colm Toibin's Brooklyn starring Domhnall Gleeson (Sensation) and Saoirse Ronan (Byzantium).

Producer Matthew Vaughn's directing debut is a briskly paced, stylish and bracingly bitter adaptation of J.J. Connolly's novel about a sleek London cocaine dealer who doesn't understand his business as well as he thinks.

Though not filmed as a direct comic book adaptation, «Hardware» became a comic book movie thanks to a unique lawsuit that saw director Richard Stanley taken to court by comic book creators Steve MacManus and Kevin O'Neill, who suggested the film was based off a story they did in «Judge Dredd Annual» 1981, titled «SHOK!

Justin is also developing several projects including the screen version of the Daphne du Maurier novel, Jamaica Inn, for Focus Films, he is writing the adaptation for the multi-award winning novel, The Tenderness of Wolves, for Pink Sands Films / Film 4, which he will also direct, and he is attached to the Ron Bass script, The Godmother, with Unanimous Pictures producing, based on the novel by Carrie Adams.

The only other adaptation of this novel was the 1978 feature - length film written and directed by Martin Rosen and starring John Hurt, so it's pretty exciting that they're doing it this time as a miniseries.

The Pros: Orson Scott Card «s «Ender's Game» is one of the most beloved science fiction novels around, and Summit are hoping to do for hard sci - fi what they did for vampires with «Twilight,» with this long - in - the - works adaptation, directed by «Wolverine» helmer Gavin Hood, and produced by «Star Trek» supremos Alex Kurtzman and Bob Orci.

Being that many of us understand what that means, we asked, does that mean the adaptation of «Miss Julie» that Ingmar Bergman «s muse Liv Ullmann was scheduled to direct?

Taika Waititi (What We Do in the Shadows) writes, directs, and even has a cameo appearance as a kooky preacher in Hunt for the Wilderpeople, a loose adaptation of the 1986 book by the late New Zealand author Barry Crump, though injected to a large extent with Waititi's comic sensibilities.

In an equally somber film filled with melodramatics, Peter Landesman, directing the film with an adaptation of Vincent Bugliosi's book «Four Days in November,» the screen is taken up largely at Parkland hospital where almost ironically both Kennedy and his assailant Lee Harvey Oswald, were taken — the latter after being shot by Jack Ruby, whose name does not come up at all in the movie.

Robert Schwentke to Direct «Divergent» Sequel: Even though yet another young adult book - to - film adaptation just tanked, Summit Entertainment is still confident in «Divergent» because even though the film doesn't hit theaters until March 21, 2014, they've already got Akiva Goldsman working on the sequel script and now Robert Schwentke attached to direct itDirect «Divergent» Sequel: Even though yet another young adult book - to - film adaptation just tanked, Summit Entertainment is still confident in «Divergent» because even though the film doesn't hit theaters until March 21, 2014, they've already got Akiva Goldsman working on the sequel script and now Robert Schwentke attached to direct itdirect it, too.

At first glance, Cuaron, whose sexually charged «Y Tu Mama Tambien» melted theater screens, seems like an odd choice to direct a «Harry Potter» film, but all one has to do is look at his 1995 adaptation of «A Little Princess» to understand the decision.

But his first into production is likely to be «The Maze Runner,» a young adult adaptation that's gearing up at Fox, set for release next spring, though he also did a polish on the Wally Pfister - directed sci - fi actioner «Transcendence,» which will follow soon after.

«The Wolverine» is already shooting so we're not sure when consulting he could have left do on that one, though he's obviously close to Matthew Vaughn (the director was eyeing two Millar adaptations to direct last fall — «Superior» and «The Secret Service» — which just happen to be set up at the studio along with «Nemesis «-RRB- so we presume they'll collaborate in some capacity on the «X-Men: Days of Future Past,» which shoots next year.

INHERENT VICE Paul Thomas Anderson did the script and directed this adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's novel about a sky - high LA private eye, circa 1970.

The Secret World of Arrietty - Up to the high standards of Hayao Miyazaki, who co-wrote but did not direct this adaptation of Mary Norton's The Borrowers.

In 2001 Enright directed his first stage adaptation of the infamous American porn film Debbie Does Dallas.

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Wrapping up the package will require agreement on a strong Adaptation Committee including active civil society observers and direct reporting to the COP (as well to the SBs when COP does not meet).

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