Sentences with phrase «epic brought to the big screen»

The film, directed by Anthony and Joe Russo and written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, truly feels like a literary epic brought to the big screen.

Not exact matches

In December 2012, the world's longest - running musical brings its power to the big screen in Tom Hooper's sweeping and spectacular interpretation of Victor Hugo's epic tale.

At the same time, Uchida is responsible for some of the most remarkable swordplay films of the 1950s and»60s; his five - film Musashi Miyamoto epic (not screened at MOMA), starring Kinnosuke Nakamura in the title role and Ken Takakura as his arch-nemesis Kojiro, surpasses the better - known Inagaki Samurai Trilogy starring Toshiro Mifune in terms of both drama and swordplay, yet remains little - known in the West (despite its availability on DVD in the U.S.) After the BAM retrospective (and others) in 2008, most of Uchida's films remained unscreened and undistributed in America, so with MOMA's bigger series recently ending, it's time again to encourage distributors like the Criterion Collection, Kino Lorber, and Arrow Video to bring out more of the director's masterpieces, both for critical reconsideration and for those whom the veteran filmmaker will be a major new discovery.

Garland, who adapted the screenplay, takes the premise, characters and larger ideas of VanderMeer's book, and interprets them in his own story to bring an almost unfilmable novel to the big screen as a sci - fi epic.

Warner Bros. has finally decided upon a director to bring Stephen King's epic novel THE STAND to the big screen and that director will...

If an adult likes big budget sci - fi eye - candy filled epics developed from children's stories or simply liked the cartoons when they were younger and think its cool to see them brought to life on the big screen with live actors and modern special effects, then they will probably enjoy this movie — if they can sit through it all.

Ever since news broke that James Franco would be bringing The Disaster Artist — a tell - all book about the making of infamously so - bad - it's - brilliant film The Room — to the big screen, we've been waiting with spoons at the ready (if you're unfamiliar with the traditions and cult following behind Tommy Wiseau's epic, read up on it here).

The fantasy epic has been a long time in the making — bringing the world of Roland Deschain to the big screen has been no easy task.